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Web Editorial: Introduction to Issue 16

editor — Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:00:00 +0000

Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce Ariadne issue 16.

Ariadne welcomes Bernadette Daly, who has joined UKOLN as Information Officer, and will be co-editing the web version of the magazine. Bernadette comes to us from Canada, and will be fielding much of the general UKOLN web service, in addition to work on Ariadne.

Hacking the Net

editor — Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:00:00 +0000

David Nicholas looks at the Internet phenomenon from the point of view of the Media.

What Are XLink and Xpointer?

editor — Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly explains XLink and XPointer.

Background

The What Is ...? article in the last edition of Ariadne gave an introduction to XML, the Extensible Markup Language [1]. XML has been developed to overcome HTML's lack of extensibility - with XML you will be able to define your own element tags. We have already seen a variety of communities defining element tags for use within their community, such as MathML [2] and MusicML [3].

Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies

editor — Sat, 18 Jul 1998 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies.

Since February 1998 HTML 4.0 [1], CSS 2.0[2], the Mathematical Markup Language MathML [3] and the Extensible Markup Language XML [4] have all become W3C Recommendations. These web protocols, all of which are concerned with the way in which information can be represented and displayed, were initially Working Drafts which were developed by the appropriate W3C Working Group.