Steve Holzner, another big name in the computing world has written a very informative article that covers many different ways to use XML. This is only one of them:
"XML at Work: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") has been around for quite some time. It's a W3C standard that you can find more about at http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/#SMIL.
SMIL attempts to fix a problem with modern "multimedia" browsers. Usually, such browsers can handle only one aspect of multimedia
My wife is a tenderfoot in the Web development arena. Imagine how surprised I was when, after just earning her certificate in Web design, she sprung this revelation on me: "HTML is going to be replaced by SMIL." I thought, "Who do you think you're talking to, sister?"
I reckon I was most put off because I wasn't sure I knew exactly what SMIL was.
Structured Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is to multimedia developers what HTML is to linked-content developers. I remember reading about SMIL a few years back, but I recall thinking that it
SMIL (pronounced as "smile") – Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language is an XML application defined by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SMIL 2.0 [1] has just been released as the W3C recommendation on 7th August 2001. The main design goal as stated by W3C is to define an XML-based language that allows you to write interactive multimedia presentations as well as allowing you to reuse the SMIL syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages such as XHTML. SMIL is an XML-based and vendor neutral markup language that allows you to build
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