Reading Notes 11-4

The Brighton University Resource Kit for Students
- BURKS (the Brighton University Resource Kit for Students) was a non-profit collection of useful resources for students of Computing who did not have an Internet collection.
- The project ran from 1997 to 2001 and the collection grom from 450M to 2.5G.
- Internet is a rapidly changing place.
- Collection is now nine years out of date.

Survey of XML standards: Part 1
- Namespaces in XML 1.0 provides a mechanism for universal naming elements and attributes in XML documents.
- Motivation behind XML Namespaces: You would be able to assign each a vocabulary marker. In XML namespaces, each vocabulary is called a namespace and there is a special syntax for expressing vocabulary markers.
- XML namespaces have been controversial among XML experts because they add a bit of complexity to the XML processing mode.
- XML namespaces have become almost universally accepted among XML users.
- XML Base provides a mean of associating XML elements with URIs in order to more precisely specify how relative URIs are resolved in relevant XML processing actions.
- XML Inclusions: provides a system for merging XML documents.
- XPointer defines a language that can be used to refer to fragments of an XML document.
- XML Linking Language provides a generic framework for expressing links in XML documents.