Thursday, January 10, 2008

Stan Learns XML

This is a wonderful site for learning XML: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp

Bottom line from this site is that XML is not a replacement for HTML. It is used with HTML. XML merely describes and holds data. This is done with some simple syntax rules that are strict.

XML doesn't do anything.

XML is free and extensible.

XML tags are no predefined tags.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

File Extension

A file extension is what can be at the end of a file name after the period.

Example: example.cpp

The cpp in the above example would be the file extension.

Under the Windows OS this can be seen or made unseen by opening a file folder, selecting Tools from the menu bar and selecting the Folder Options.... This will display the Folder Options dialog.













From this dialog select the View tab. Having a check in the Hide file extensions for known files type setting will enable you to see the file extensions.

I am not sure what you do under a Linux file manager. At the command line the file extension are shown automatically. This is also true for a Windows console command line also.