Challenger XT 2.1 XML Support


The XML palette of Challenger XT 2.1 is used for the insertion of information of the QuarkXpress page and to export the XML file.
Challenger XT 2.1, the new version of the first DHTML-capable XTension for QuarkXPress, is now bringing support of XML standard to the world-leading layout application QuarkXPress.

What is XML?

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the universal format for data on the Web. XML allows developers to easily describe and deliver rich, structured data from any application in a standard, consistent way. XML does not replace HTML; rather, it is a complementary format.

In "Technical Papers," several contributors posit how XML is a natural complement to Java and Web automation technologies. In the same way that URLs are shared technology for pointing to and accessing resources in distributed applications, XML provides an interchange format with extremely broad appeal. With XML, if you want to go beyond the boundaries of HTML, it will be straightforward to do just that.

QuarkXPress & XML?


In the XML preferences you can easily create your DTD, the Document Type Definition.
Think of your QuarkXPress documents as information containers. A newspaper for example has thousand of stories which can be exported from the pages as structured XML data and re-used in databases, archive systems and of course on the Net. When you create XML documents out of QuarkXPress with Challenger XT 2.1, you will create consistent stuctures which are easy to handle with any system that supports XML.

With Challenger XT 2.1 the structured archiving of QuarkXPress articles is done fast and easy. Just create the Document Type Definition (DTD) for your structure, and select the content items that belong to the specific article. Challenger XT creates the XML document out of that information with one click.

To help the publishers which are producing database-drivem sites, Challenger XT 2.1 offers direct posting of the XML data to any Web-capable database system. All fields of the XML file are splitted and exported as POST through the Internet or Intranet to the database system.

To get more information about XML, we recommend you to visit XML.COM, which is a great XML information site. Start reading the introduction to XML here.