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Marking Up Information Into XML Structure And Seeing The FINISHED Product




                The Light Bulb Is FINALLY Turned On!

My mentor has me working on a project called "Artes Latinae".
I have been marking up the information contained in images he has given me (using the XML markup language) so that a program he has can read my XML file and recreate the original image from my XML markup.


Today he showed me the end result of what all of that markup creates.   I am a very visual person, so when I see the end result - it ties everything together for me.

It was AWESOME!  He is turning a language book into an interactive online teaching course.  For people who learn best by interactive methods, this is going to be a valuable course.

He showed me where the <sound></sound> tags and <response></response> tags will look like when they are done AND the importance of using the ans="" attributes in all of the <response></response> tags.   They are important because when you see the finished product, those <response></response>  tags that have the ans="" attribute will be a blank space where the user needs to type the answer.  The ans="" attribute will then check the user's answer to the answer that is in the <response></response> tags.  If the answer is correct, the user will be told it is a correct answer.  If the answer is incorrect, the user will have a chance to try again. 

Pretty cool stuff!



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