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At 01:14 AM 29/09/01 -0500, Imran Rashid wrote: > I'm supposed to be giving a brief "intro to XML" talk to a technical audience that doesn't know anything about XML. I was hoping I could look at some of the presentations the more experienced members of this list have given. I know there have been links posted previously, but a quick search of the archive didn't turn up much. What I find works well is to show four slides. The first is a sample of HTML, with all the usual HTML problems, unclosed tags, the <IMG> element with no end-tag, unquoted attribute values, no enclosing tag pair for the whole doc. The second slide makes it into well-formed XML, logically equivalent but different-looking and obviously much easier for a programmer to handle. The third has a teeny little internal-subset DTD that makes the thing valid - if you keep yourself to <html>, <p>, <a>, and <img> it's not too hard. The fourth has a pointer to an external DTD, presumably xhtml.dtd or some such, there's no need to go into the DTD. That kind of gets the basics about well-formedness and validity across. Where you go from there depends on the audience. -Tim
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