XML in chatting software

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Sameer - 26 Mar 2005 08:54 GMT

Hello,
I am new to XML and I want to know how can I improve my Chatting
software written in Java using XML? In chatting software there is a lot
of data transfer along with formatting infomation. It is suggested to
me that using XML I may do it easily.
How to proceed?
-Sameer

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Mark Preston - 30 Mar 2005 10:53 GMT

> Hello,
> I am new to XML and I want to know how can I improve my Chatting
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> How to proceed?
> -Sameer

Sameer,

It is rather the point of XML that it need not contain any formatting
information at all - just the content. The formatting information can
(and should) all be removed to a separate file as either an XSL
transformation of some kind to carry out the display formatting or, if
you are using web-page standards for your display, to a CSS file. In
both cases, the formatting can remain constant and localised and need
not be transfmitted at all (after the first time, obviously) and just
used for each set of XML content files you send later.

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