多媒体技术教程--CH1_Introduction Ver3.ppt

Summary of Chapter 1 The Concept of multimedia Definition (Components) Global structure Multimedia system Multimedia, Hyptertext and Hypermedia WWW,HTTP,HTML XML (Extensible Markup Language) * Multimedia Communications, Spring 2010 * XML: a markup language for the WWW in which there is modularity of data, structure and view user or application can define the tags (structure). Example of using XML to retrieve stock information from a database according to a user query: 1. First use a global Document Type Definition (DTD 全局文档类型定义) that is already defined. 2. The server side script will abide by the DTD rules to generate an XML document according to the query using data from your database. 3. Finally send user the XML Style Sheet (XSL) depending on the type of device used to display the information. XML * Multimedia Communications, Spring 2010 * The current version is XML 1.0, Syntax looks like HTML syntax, although more strict: All tags are in lower case, and a tag that has only inline data has to terminate itself i.e., token params /. Uses name spaces so that multiple DTDs declaring different elements but with similar tag names can have their elements distinguished. XML * Multimedia Communications, Spring 2010 * The following XML related specifications are standardized: XML Protocol: used to exchange XML information between processes. XML Schema: a more structured and powerful language for defining XML data types (tags). XSL: basically CSS（Cascading Style Sheets）for XML. SMIL: synchronized Multimedia Integration Language a particular application of XML (globally predefined DTD) that allows for specification of interaction among any media types and user input, in a temporally scripted manner. Reference Web Site * Multimedia Communications, Spring 2010 * You can get more information from Integration * Multimedia Communications, Spring 2010 * Hypermedia/Hypertext editors Accessing document structures through links Editing objects according to their characteris