Exercise 11.5: XML introduction

Question 5.
SMIL is an application of XML. What is the purpose of this technology? Where does it apply?

SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language and is pronounced "smile". It is a language for describing audiovisual presentations and is written in XML. The purpose of the technology is to create Internet or Intranet presentations and is likened to the Internet version of PowerPoint.

SMIL presentations can display text, video and audio and can display multiple files at the same time. The presentations can contain control buttons like stop, start, next etc and they have functions for defining sequences and duration of elements and the position and visibility of those elements.

SMIL presentations can be written using a text-editor and is easy to learn and understand.

SMIL is a W3C recommendation.

References
SMIL Introduction (n.d.). Retrieved on June 22, 2009, from http://www.w3schools.com/smil/smil_intro.asp