DHTML and XML

DHTML = dynamic Hyper text markup language
It is not a separate thing, it's just extensions to html allowing some cool
effects and the ability to assign objects and change the page design and
information - on the fly.
eg:
<a href="http://www.somewhere.co.uk"><span id="MyText1"
onMouseOver="MyText1.style.fontStyle='italic'"
onMouseOut="MyText1.style.fontStyle='normal'")>My Link</span></a>
When the user mouses over the span, the text will have different properties.
Although this is strictly JavaScript, but dhtml is close in the forms and
difficulty :~[

XML = extensible Markup language.
mmm. best not to use it as browser support if VERY limited (apart from IE
which has its own commonly known as the channel definition format -
channels).
Here is an extract from my IE channel - nn has an equivalent but I don't
care about it.
<?XML VERSION="1.0" ENCODING="windows-1252"?>

<CHANNEL HREF="http://www.bigfoot.com/~batfastad" LASTMOD="1999-06-29T20:13"
PRECACHE="YES" LEVEL="0">
    <TITLE>The Batfastad Channel</TITLE>
    <ABSTRACT>A Channel For All Batfastads Out There!</ABSTRACT>
    <LOGO HREF="http://www.batfastad.force9.co.uk/resources/cicon.gif"
STYLE="ICON"/>
    <LOGO HREF="http://www.batfastad.force9.co.uk/resources/cimage.gif"
STYLE="IMAGE"/>
    <LOGO HREF="http://www.batfastad.force9.co.uk/resources/cimagew.gif"
STYLE="IMAGE-WIDE"/>
    <ITEM HREF="http://www.batfastad.force9.co.uk/Babemonth.html"
LASTMOD="1999-06-29T20:34" PRECACHE="YES" LEVEL="0">
I don't know much about it other than that :�(

Ben Bradley UK

http://batfastad.web.com

http://www.bigfoot.com/~kingben

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