Steve Holzner, another big name in the computing world has written a very informative article that covers many different ways to use XML. This is only one of them:
"XML at Work: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") has been around for quite some time. It's a W3C standard that you can find more about at http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/#SMIL.
SMIL attempts to fix a problem with modern "multimedia" browsers. Usually, such browsers can handle only one aspect of multimedia
EXI is the result of extensive work carried out by the W3C's XML Binary Characterization (XBC) and Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Groups. XBC was chartered to investigate the costs and benefits of an alternative form of XML, and formulate a way to objectively evaluate the potential of a substitute format for XML. Based on XBC's recommendations, EXI was chartered, first to measure, evaluate, and compare the performance of various XML technologies (using metrics developed by XBC [XBC Measurement Methodologies]), and then, if it appeared suitable,
Adrian K. writes a fantastic article about how to integrate XML, AJAX, and C to create an error catching system. The short story, in their words, goes: "It's kind of scary realizing that should your JavaScript fail, the only way you'll know is if some kind user lets you know. We've all seen "object x is undefined" errors and so on, how many times have you reported the error to the webmaster? It's easy for these problems to go unnoticed for prolonged periods of time.
I have recently been getting to grips with 'AJAX' techniques, and had a magic
Databinding has to be just about one of the coolest features in Flex 2, allowing you to bind a property to the value of a property of another object. When the property of that object is updated, the value of the bound property will automatically be updated. This is mainly used in Flex to update UI components when the data for the model changes.
Unfortunately databinding doesn't work for read-only properties. A read-only property (by my definition) is a private instance variable of a class that has a getter function without a matching setter function.
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