nts help to “fill in the gaps”, if you will. In other words, with XSL and XLL technologies, Extensible Markup Language documents can markup and describe any kind of document or character-based data, display that document in a variety of different ways, and refer or link to specific parts of other documents. It is important to understand that while Extensible Markup Language allows for increased functionality on the web, it is more time consuming initially to generate than HyperText Markup Language. That is why it is important to understand your need when selecting a tool to generate the output. If your application does not require the need for the computer to understand the data, or if the output is intended solely for one platform, Extensible Markup Language is not the way to go. As Extensible Markup Language is dependent on a style sheet at a minimum, why create two documents when you can get away with one. On the other hand, if you do require a “smart” technology, why create two or three HyperText Markup Language pages that would still remain as individual static pages when you could create one Extensible Markup Language document, and a style sheet for each output requirement? Future enhancements to the latter would save both time and cost. Extensible Markup Language - The FutureAlthough Standard Generalized Markup Language (the parent of Extensible Markup Language) is by no means new to the world (since 1969), Extensible Markup Language is still relatively new. In fact, to date the Word Wide Web Consortium, which is responsible for the creation and standardization of Extensible Markup Language, has yet to release Version 1.0. Make no mistake, however. Extensible Markup Language is the future of the Web. The decisive factor is that Extensible Markup Language can be tailored completely to the needs of the users, the information they want to display or manipulate, and the purpose of the application they are wri...
