XML与电子文件展示技术之探讨-淡江大学.PDF

圖書與資訊學刊 ，第 37 期 ，頁 58-78 ，民 90 年 5 月 XML 與電子文件展示技術之探討 淡江大學資訊與圖書館學系 助理教授 林信成 研究生 龔裕民 摘要 XML 由於具備結構化 、擴充性 、跨平台 、內容外觀分離等特性 ，很快地成 為一種公認的文件標準 ，由 XML 所延伸的眾多應用 ，如 MathML 、SMIL 、SVG 、 XHTML 等 ，也逐漸普及於多種專業用途上 。未來 XML 更可能結合攜帶式行動 設備存取網路資訊 。本文就目前最具代表性的幾種電子文件技術 ，如 RTF 、 Postscript 、PDF 、SGML 、HTML 等 ，加以分析 、探討其優缺點及特性 ，並與 XML 的文件展示技術比較 ，藉此闡述 XML 的特質及應用潛力 ，進一步探究未 來電子文件展示技術的可能發展趨勢 。 Study on the XML and Presentation Technologies for Electronic Document Sinn-Cheng Lin Assistant Professor Yu-Min Gong Graduate Student Department of Educational Media and Library Sciences, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Abstract The main features of XML include (1) rigorous structure and extensib ility (2) separated processing of content, structure schema, and display (3) platform- independency, high portability (4) easy to be applied in e-commerce (5) be the Meta- language of other applications. Nowadays, a lot of applications based on XML are varied among some professional fields, e.g., MathML for scientific publication, SMIL for multimedia authoring, SVG for vector diagram drawing, and 1 XHTML for Web page publication. In the future, XML incorporated with the mobile devices such as PDAs, palm-top computers, in-car computers, cellular phones, pagers, etc., will construct a mobile information service environment which can access the Internet at anywhere and anytime. In this study, some representative technologies of electronic document, such as RTF, postscript, PDF, SGML and HTML, were discussed to