Big Java, Binder Ready Version: Early Objects
Big Java, Binder Ready Version: Early Objects
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ISBN: 9781119056447
Author: Cay S. Horstmann
Publisher: WILEY
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Chapter 25, Problem 1RE
Program Plan Intro

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML):

  • It is one of the markup languages that is used to format web documents.
  • It contains opening and closing tags that tells the browser how to organize the text, headings, body, title, and so on.
  • HTML contains codes that are placed in a file in order to display on a browser.
  • The web browser renders the code in HTML file and it displays the page and its associated files.

XML - Extensible Markup Language

  • XML is a language that contains a collection of rules used for encoding the content of a document in a format (human-readable and machine-readable).
  • It is used to carry the content of any document.
  • The tags are not predefined; and so the programmers can create their own set of tags to describe the data used in the document.
  • The elements should have the start tag and its matching end-tag.
  • XML is a metalanguage which was established by World Wide Web Consortium.
  • It is an extended version of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) that is used to describe more markup languages.
  • The DTD describes the structure of a particular XML document.
    • The Document Type Definition (DTD) is an organization specification of an XML document.
  • The filename extension is “.xml”.

Syntax:

<root>

<child>

          <subchild>........</subchild>

  </child></root>

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Similarities of HTML and XML:

  • Both HTML and XML are markup languages.
  • Both HTML and XML are extended versions of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
  • Both uses tags in order to describe the content.

Differences between HTML and XML:

HTMLXML
The full form is Hypertext Markup LanguageThe full form is Extensible markup language.
It does not contain structural information.It contains structural information.
Whitespaces are not preserved.Whitespaces are preserved.
It is case insensitiveIt is case sensitive
It is format driven.It is content drive.

Examples:

HTML: "<li>" is same as "<LI>"

XML: "<LI>" is not the same as "<li>" // case sensitive

HTML: <img src="hamster.jpeg">

XML: <img src="hamster.jpeg"/> // must provide end-tag

HTML: <img src="hamster.jpeg" width=400 height=300>

XML: <img src="hamster.jpeg" width="400" height="300"/>

// quote attribute values

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