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I'm an ex-HTML
and ex-Cold Fusion programmer retraining for the future. I started
learning XML technologies and .NET in January 2002 and skipped learning
anything about DTDs in favor of learning about Schemas. However, in
reading the last 3 months of the xml-dev posts I find that you all are referring
to DTDs a lot in your posts. Do I need to go back and learn about
DTDs? When will I need to use DTDs instead of Schemas?
I intend to
ONLY be in the Microsoft .NET environment and only use C#, ASP.NET, XML
(XSLT, XPath, XQuery, SQLXML, Schemas), Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Access,
ADO.NET, web services, Javascript/ECMA and Visual Studio.NET. I am not
using Java and my clients are only running in the Windows 98 or later
operating systems, no Unix. At this point I've got my work cut out just learning
the above technologies well, unless you all tell me I need to learn more
(what?).
I also intend to use
XHTML wherever possible instead of HTML. However, it appears to me that
Microsoft isn't fully supporting it. If I remember correctly,
one line I wrote in XHTML got "changed" to standard HTML by Visual
Studio.NET's editor. Any comments? Is XHTML widely supported or do I
have to continue using HTML? I thought standards had moved to
favoring XHMTL instead of HTML.
One of my clients
asked me to do a multimedia CD project with time lines, audio voice overs,
background music, video, and animation. I finally ended up quoting it in
Macromedia technologies (mostly Flash) instead of using the above
technologies. Anything out there that I missed that I could have used to
stay true to the programming technologies I want to use (.NET,
XML, and the list of technologies above) and still get the job done as well
as I could have in Flash? Please email me in the future if you find
something. I am definitely interested, not just for this one
project.
I realize this is an
XML forum and apologize for getting off of XML in some of my
questions. I hope I haven't strayed far enough off to offend you, and
intend to stick closer to XML technology questions in the future. Thanks
in advance for any answers you choose to provide. Please feel free to
email me directly instead of through the forum if your answer is not related to
XML technologies.
Pam Ammond
Empowering You!
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