XML in Education

XML in Higher Education
Quote: “SMIL’s ability to dynamically assemble multimedia represents a departure from the standard “top-down” approach to authoring adopted by many multimedia presentation packages. Because SMIL describes how individual multimedia “chunks” are assembled, SMIL opens the door to collaborative project development, encouraging an exploratory approach to content creation. With SMIL, authors can update presentation content without the overhead of expensive and elaborate post-production processing. If an error is found in any multimedia component, only that one component needs to be corrected, rather than the entire presentation.”