Hello all,
I am trying to find information on SMIL 2.0 (an adaption of XML that allows the integration of TV and the Internet) and would like to find out if WROX has any books that cover it or if anyone knows anything about any any applications that are currently being used to integrate television and the Internet. I am doing a research paper for graduation and picked this topic. Now I want to see if I can get started on learning the language.
If I need to be on a different board, please let me know that also. I went to the W3.org site to find out about the SMIL 2.0 language and discovered there that it was an adaption of XML
Thanks

I'm not sure what you mean by "adaption" - sounds like a blend between "adoption" and "adaptation" - but really the fact that a language like SMIL uses XML syntax is neither here nor there. There are good engineering reasons for building on XML, but the important thing is what facilities it offers to its users, not what syntax it uses underneath the covers.

There are thousands of vocabularies built on top of XML, and SMIL is just one of them. Generally speaking, if you ask a question about a specific XML vocabulary on a general-purpose XML forum, then only 1% of the people on the forum are likely to know anything about it. You'll have to look elsewhere for the experts.

Most of what I have read about SMIL describes it as a format for multimedia presentations. I haven't often seen it described as a vehicle for integrating TV and the internet. But who knows...

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference