ASP & XML

Hi,

Basically ASP is one of Microsoft's server side languages that you use to produce "active" web pages often by interacting with backend databases.

XML on the other hand is a standard by which data objects are represented. It can be made to "do" more than that when incorporated within a language but essentially its a recording standard if you like.

Its becoming the standard by which internet applications communicate data over the net.

You cant do anything much knowing only XML so you really need a language too. Although being an XML specialist could be of use in a large enough project.

Here's a link to an ASP tutorial.

http://www.asptutorial.info/

And here's a link to the XML definition page.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml

(remove spaces from the above URLs)

Cheers,
Tim.

ASP is a scripting langauge that allows you to build up logic, database connections, execute stored procs etc.

It would be better to make a comparison between HTML and XML.
XML is just a way of describing data.
HTML is a way to display data.XML and XSLT are very useful but theres a whole load of other technology underpinning the transfer of XML documents such as SOAP.

If your getting into programming your priority should be learning the 'bread and butter' stuff like html and javascript then start looking at some of the dynamic technologies. I say this as XML still has a way to go before people start adopting some cast iron standards.

http://www.w3c.org/