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How can XML be used?
XML has a variety of uses for Web, e-business, and portable applications. General applications: XML provides a standard method to access information, making it easier for applications and devices of all kinds to use, store, transmit, and display data.
What is the point of XML?
Language. XML is a language that can be read and used by computer software. Specifically, the purpose of XML is to store data in a way that can be easily read by and shared between software applications. XML doesn’t do anything with the data other than store it, like a database.
Is XML front end or backend?
XML was designed to store and transport data so in a sense it’s neither frontend nor backend much like HTML. For example, the backend can generate HTML which is passed to the frontend for rendering a webpage. XML can be generated by the backend and passed to the frontend for displaying information.
What are the basics of XML?
XML stores data in plain text format….The XML above is quite self-descriptive:
- It has sender information.
- It has receiver information.
- It has a heading.
- It has a message body.
- The tags in the example below are not defined in any XML standard. These tags are “invented” by the author of the XML document.
Is it necessary to use XML in games?
It’s not totally necessary, if your file sizes are constricted or something, but it’s a good thing to use. In my opinion, XML could be a valuable technology in games. It may not seem so, but I’ll give a couple of applied examples. It’s not too hard to describe adventure game worlds in XML.
What do you need to know about XML programming?
You create the words, and everything adheres to the language ‘grammar.’ XML is meta-data: data about data. The full language specification is at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml, and while it’s heavy reading, describes every aspect of the language from start to finish.
How to create your own custom.xml files?
For each character and background sprite sheet, there is a “.XML” file with the same name as the sprite sheet its related to. These files are generated by Adobe Animate, and tell the game each sprites height and length and where they should be placed on the stage using X and Y coordinates. So how do you make a custom one?
Why is XML known as an extensible mark up language?
Well, the reason it’s known as an ‘extensible’ mark-up language is that you can ‘extend’ it – that is, make it up. You create the words, and everything adheres to the language ‘grammar.’ XML is meta-data: data about data.