Blogger XML Templates (New)

Blogger XML Templates is the latest updated Blogger version, which is much much better as the HTML version simply because it offers you a wide range of options - Widgets & Add ons & Page Elements etc - it is really cool.

To be honest, trying to make changes on the XML Template may be seen as too chaos and too complicated as a new User (without much of experience) but within a short time even you will get year head around.

Here is a small Introduction:

What is XML !?

XML (acronym: Extensible Markup Language)is a markup language for documents containing structured information - both content (words, pictures, etc.) and some indication of what role that content plays (for example, content in a section heading has a different meaning from content in a footnote, which means something different than content in a figure caption or content in a database table, etc.). Almost all documents have some structure.

A markup language is a mechanism to identify structures in a document. The XML specification defines a standard way to add markup to documents.

So XML is Just Like HTML !?

NO! In HTML, both the tag semantics and the tag set are fixed. An <h1> is always a first level heading and the tag is meaningless. The W3C, in conjunction with browser vendors and the WWW community, is constantly working to extend the definition of HTML to allow new tags to keep pace with changing technology and to bring variations in presentation (stylesheets) to the Web. However, these changes are always rigidly confined by what the browser vendors have implemented and by the fact that backward compatibility is paramount. And for people who want to disseminate information widely, features supported by only the latest releases of Netscape and Internet Explorer are not useful.

XML specifies neither semantics nor a tag set. In fact XML is really a meta-language for describing markup languages. In other words, XML provides a facility to define tags and the structural relationships between them. Since there's no predefined tag set, there can't be any preconceived semantics. All of the semantics of an XML document will either be defined by the applications that process them or by stylesheets.

Why XML !?

In order to appreciate XML, it is important to understand why it was created. XML was created so that richly structured documents could be used over the web. The only viable alternatives, HTML and SGML, are not practical for this purpose.

HTML, as we've already discussed, comes bound with a set of semantics and does not provide arbitrary structure.

If you are intrested to know more, go to: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/