Week 9 Muddiest Point

When an xml document links to another website for its schema, which I understand is an XML document, can that document be automatically interpreted by the parser? I assume it can, but I wanted to make sure.

Week 9 Comments

I commented on Anthony's blog.

Week 9 Reading Notes

I have to say I had a hard time understanding the readings on XML.
I was under the impression that XML is metadata that is attached to HTML documents that computers can read to determine what the documents "are." Apparently there is more to it than that.
XML is a flexible mark-up language that can define what documents are. If I understand the readings correctly, it can also define elements of a document, such as title, author, etc.
It also seems to be able to signal to computer reading the XML to do certain tasks, and link to parts of documents.
A difference between XML and HTML is that HTML defines appearence of a document, while XML does not. It seems that HTML is soewhat restrictive in its potential for customization, but I don't see why HTML can't be expanded to include perform the same function as XML. Why create an entirely new language (or is it family of languages?)?

I also looked at this website. It may be helpful to some.