XML's Impact on Web Development

Remodeling 'Traditional' Web Applications for XML

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SGML for the Web

Bringing Together Multiple Communities

Web advantages

Web disadvantages

Looking back to Client-Server

How (simple) Client-Server Worked

Adding some layers to the Client-Server Model

Web-style Client-server

Flashback

Where HTML Browsers Aren't Real Smart

Previous Attempts at Smarter HTML Browsers

Some Useful Inheritance from HTML Improvements

Using XML on the server side

XML and Content Management

Using XML to Connect Multiple Back Ends

XML for Complex Content Processing

XML and Interface Management

XML and Link/Navigation Processing

Frameworks for Server-Side Processing

Text Generation of XML

Stream Generation

Model (DOM) Generation of XML

Any of these can be moved to middleware

Potential for Multi-Layer Middleware

XML in the Browser

Moving XML processing to the client

Browsers as 'Application Platforms'

Alternatives to browsers

Using XML to Move Past Forms

XML Beyond the Browser

With or without humans

Conclusions for Web Developers

Conclusions for Application Developers

A Very Different Web