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Conditional attribute in XML - most concise solution?
I am tasked with setting up conditional profiling - a method of tagging chunks of XML with an attribute, which will then be used as a conditional value to extract subset of that XML.
Have a look at ...
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How to render RSS feed in a desktop RSS reader?
Consider one feed like this: http://feeds.feedburner.com/codinghorror
It has the entire content inside the description tag of the feed, so you don't need to access the website to read the post.
Now ...
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XML or HTML for User Manual/Help and Why?
I want to make User Manual/Help to my program. I found two good ways - XML or HTML - which should I use and why?
I know how to do it in html (I know how to use js, css and such) but in XML it's ...
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are there any tools to convert general purpose XML to HTML? [closed]
I don't know how to say... The XIB is using xml to store the UIElement information, similar to .Net GUI. Is there any open source stuff also convert the xml file to a html layout?
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What's an expat XML parser?
I found the term here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla_Web_Developer_FAQ
I know what a XML parser is.
I can't understand; what exactly is an expat XML parser?
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Is using xml + xsl to create a weekly html email a good or bad idea?
The guy who is in charge of our html emails is leaving and I have been asked to take over. We are an online retailer and send out an email once a week. An email will consist of a main image, a bit of ...
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Purpose of ending tags in SGML/HTML/XML?
There are those tags which have immediate effect (< br >) and those which affect what is between them ( < a > < / a > ).
Closing tag is verbose, and I believe also redundant:
<tag ...
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Relation and differences between SGML, XML, HTML and XHTML
I was wondering what "profile" means in Wikipedia:
XML is a profile of an ISO standard SGML, and most of XML comes from
SGML unchanged.
According to
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Why not XHTML5?
So, HTML5 is the Big Step Forward, I'm told. The last step forward we took that I'm aware of was the introduction of XHTML. The advantages were obvious: simplicity, strictness, the ability to use ...
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Ideal way to define a table or grid in XML?
HTML
<table border="1" width="400">
<tr>
<th>Month</th>
<th>Savings</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>January</td>
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