Muddiest point (Week 8):
I don’t understand why we would want or need to use the meta tag in the header. We say that the data is not displayed on the screen for people to see so why even put it in there?? I understand the machines can read it but how is that going to benefit anything?
Thoughts on Readings for week 9:
Ok, I’ll start out by saying that I am very unfamiliar to XML before and after reading these passages. I guess you can say I know more after than before but wouldn’t want to proclaim myself as a pro. From the readings I seem to gather that XML is closely related to HTML judging by the snippets of code that have been provided on the sites. It does seem however that XML would be more proactive, meaning that it knows that coders and users will make mistakes and it helps correct or flag those mistakes. I think it is also very important and a great feature that it helps documents be compatible across platforms and any other variables that may be different from system to system. That being said, it seems that XML would be the way to go for a serious developer or user, even though it seems a bit more complicated to learn and use compared to the HTML language.
For Zhen: Comment for week 9:
Zhen, I commented on Peter’s blog regarding HTML. See this here…
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4619180577856147392&postID=5538865292843294899&page=1
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I think the metadata tags might be used for bibliographic information. It is what the program Zotero might look for when you snag a citation.
agree with Jen. sometimes we want machines to help us to automatically do some tasks, then they need information on how to manipulate the documents. The meta tags are useful for that situation
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