RE: XML to 5250

Vern,

Think of it this way.  HTML is a SUBSET of XML, where the HTML tags are
defined specifically for document presentation.  XML is a general purpose
format, where the meaning and validation characteristics of a tag are
described in a DTD.  I believe that there's an implementation of XML that is
basically equivalent to standard HTML, tho I can't remember what it's
called.

Eric DeLong
Sally Beauty Company
MIS-Project Manager (BSG)
940-898-7863 or ext. 1863



-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@centerfieldtechnology.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:07 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: XML to 5250


Ah, OK. Then what is the process to map to the HTML tags - is that done 
somehow, for displaying in tables, etc.? The equivalents in UIM and HTML 
would be on the simple side, I would think - not cascading style sheets or 
anything like that.

Vern

At 10:57 AM 2/12/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>From: Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@centerfieldtechnology.com>
>
> > Jon, another thought - doesn't XML use tags of some sort, it'd be
> > interesting to see if there's a close enough mapping to UIM tags.
>
>This is typical misconception. XML doesn't have any tags that
>can be mapped to UIM. You define your own tags and can define
>them to map to anything.


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