HTML into XML and Back
Converting my resume from html into XML (the eXtensible
Markup Language) was a fairly simple task. In my opinion XML is significantly
more intuitive then HTML, I simply followed some new rules. Check out
my resume in XML: Jordan's
Resume XML Version.
Getting the XML to be presentable is another story.
I decided to use XSL (the eXtensible Stylesheet Language) to transform
the XML back into HTML. One of the nice things about XSLT is that it
is XML that describes how to present a given source. In other words
once you figure out XML basics XSL should be easy to figure out. A really
nice tool that I've found was IBM's XSL Editor (pictured above), an
excellent free download. It allowed me to transform XML via XSL into
HTML on the fly. Check out my XSL stylesheet used to transform the XML
resume into HTML: Jordan's
XSL stylesheet.
Here's the final product: Jordan's
converted from XML into HTML resume. (I left out the CSS bells and
whistles found on my other resume formats. To see those click here).
Here are some helpful links for XML and XSLT:
IBM
Alphawork's XSL Editor
W3C Schools Web
Tutorials
ZVON.ORG
O'Reilly's XML.com
Builder.com