I am soooo new to XML. I understand XML is like HTML; it contains infomation (text etc.). A praser can be used to read XML document, but how do I use the definition file? Do I use it with the praser?
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I'm pretty new to XML myself, but basically a DTD is a "Document Type Definition", which defines data storage and description protocols and parameters for a particular implementation of XML. In other words, it tells you how to read a given XML document, and it tells a parser how to parse it (more or less).
Here's a decent link that might be useful getting you started:
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For reading XML, I use XML::Simple.....its a nice little tool...which I use for my SearchFeed_Results plugin (for Links SQL)...may wanna have a look at that Perl Module
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Also check out Barnes & Noble (for BN University) they have free online classes... XML is a very popular class - I've taken it several times (just never have finished it though - ).