Exercise 11

Exercise 11: XML Introduction
1] XML Parsers
• Internet Explorer 5 XML Parser
Internet Explorer 4 was the first Web browser to include a parser, and IE5 includes a good XML parser.
• Expat
Expat is an XML 1.0 parser that is free for private and commercial use.
• Lark
Lark is a non-validating XML parser written in Java.
(Kyrnin)
2] The benefits of adoption a standardized scheme is ,easy of using a single platform by all the business.
Any new introductions will minimum follow the standard, which will help to provide better understanding
Using a standards in business decrease the risk of incompatibility

3] SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

SMIL allows integrating a set of independent multimedia objects into a synchronized multimedia presentation. Using SMIL, an author can

1. Describe the temporal behaviour of the presentation
2. Describe the layout of the presentation on a screen
3. Associate hyperlinks with media objects
4. Define conditional content inclusion/exclusion based on
System/network properties

SMIL language is popular in media types Real Audio and Real Video. In addition, they have added some new media types Real Pix (graphics), Real Text and Real Flash. All these media types are tied together through SMIL and all are streamed for playback in the Real Player. SMIL is used to develop multimedia applications for the web platform. SMIL can later become a standard to develop applications for the iTV platform.
(Giuliano Araujo Bertoti)