Why bother? We already have XML.

• XML today

  • lots of books, (research) articles, extensions, DTDs
  • but not a single real document

• How to play with XML documents

  • Find XML documents on the Web: good luck!
  • Use applications with a “save as XML” feature: maybe for Xmas
  • Craft your own documents: if you have nothing else to do!

• 2 meanings for our title

  • offering XML views, because there is no real XML documents around
  • enriching data on the Web with explicit structure

• Wait a minute!

  • The Web contains zillions of HTML pages.HTML and XML are not so different.
  • Wouldn’t it be cool to take HTML pagesand recycle them into XML documents?

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