The term “greater than the sum of its parts” is a bit of a clich\u00e9, but there’s no better way to describe XML. When I was planning this Skillshare video, my in-house IT pointed out that “you can teach someone to use XML in five minutes.” And while that’s somewhat true, the concept behind using it as a markup language, and the reasons for doing so, are hard to separate out from the instruction.<\/p>\n
So the video below explains a few things: What XML is, how it works, and why we use it at the Darwin Manuscripts Project<\/a>, an ongoing project based at the American Museum of Natural History, where we transcribe Charles Darwin’s handwritten notes into plain text.<\/p>\n (The video plays best in high definition\u2014click the little gear box at the bottom of the video screen and choose “720 HD”\u2014and I also recommend viewing it as a full screen\u2014click the bracket button at the bottom right-hand corner of the video screen.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The term “greater than the sum of its parts” is a bit of a clich\u00e9, but there’s no better way to describe XML. When I was planning this Skillshare video, my in-house IT pointed out that “you can teach someone to use XML in five minutes.” And while that’s somewhat true, the concept behind using it as a markup language,…<\/p>\n