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Learning To Love the Code: HTML As a Tool in the Writing Classroom | Margaret Batschelet

XML

XML (the eXtensible Markup Language) was developed in 1996 and became a World Wide Web Consortium standard in 1998. XML will allow web writers to create "vocabularies of tags for different purposes" (Price, 47) that will identify the content of web documents. In turn, the content of these documents will be more readily searchable and more easily rearranged into custom-made documents to suit the needs of various users. XHTML is a link between XML and HTML; it includes most of the standard HTML tags already in use, as well as CSS, and it will allow authors to convert existing HTML pages to XML more easily.

The growing movement toward XML on the web represents yet another reason for teaching students HTML, or, ideally, XHTML. Becoming familiar with a simpler markup language may make the movement to the more flexible and complex XML that much easier.

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Citation Format: Batschelet, Margaret. "Learning To Love the Code: HTML As a Tool in the Writing Classroom." The Writing Instructor. 2004. http://www.writinginstructor.org/files/batschelet/ (Date Accessed).
Review Process: Margaret Batschelet's hypertext was accepted for publication following blind, peer review.