GORML
George's Own Résumé Markup Language
I have created an XML-based résumé markup language just to show how this can be done. I call it GORML (rhymes with "normal"). I have also rendered my résumé in GORML as a demonstration. This is a very simple example of the use of XML. Note: To view the following documents you need an XML aware browser like Internet Explorer.
- My Résumé as an XML document (in GORML, this is gresume-raw.xml)
- The same file styled with an XSL stylesheet (this is gresume.xml)
- The XSL stylesheet (this is gresume.xsl)
A key strength of using XML is that the data can be easily displayed in a different format by changing the XSL stylesheet. For example, compare the version of the résumé above with a version that has the presentation order for education and experience reversed (this is gresume_alt.xml). This was done by simply changing the stylesheet and referring to this new stylesheet in the original HTML document.
The raw data, marked up in GORML (XML), is the same in both cases. What changes is the inclusion of the style sheet.
There needs to be more work on GORML before this could be generally useful for students and before it would be accepted as a software standard. For one thing I do not have any documentation for the language so you better see my disclaimer on its use.
There are many resources available on the web for XML. The W3Schools have online courses that you might be interested in (e.g., HTML, XML, and WML).
This page was last updated: Monday, 05-Feb-2007 11:47:24 EST