Xml in a Nutshell

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ISBN: 9780596007645 | 0596007647
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Copyright: 9/15/2004

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The third edition of this landmark guide-the number one book on XML-continues its mission as a comprehensive, easy-to-access reference to the fundamental rules that all XML documents and authors must adhere to. XML in a Nutshell now has coverage of XML 1.1, as well as updates to SAX2 and DOM Level 3 coverage. Thorough in its treatment and explanations, this new edition is exactly what XML developers need in order to work effectively.

Preface	p. xiii
XML Concepts
Introducing XML	p. 3
The Benefits of XML	p. 3
What XML Is Not	p. 5
Portable Data	p. 6
How XML Works	p. 7
The Evolution of XML	p. 8
XML Fundamentals	p. 12
XML Documents and XML Files	p. 12
Elements, Tags, and Character Data	p. 13
Attributes	p. 16
XML Names	p. 18
References	p. 20
CDATA Sections	p. 21
Comments	p. 22
Processing Instructions	p. 22
The XML Declaration	p. 24
Checking Documents for Well-Formedness	p. 26
Document Type Definitions (DTDs)	p. 28
Validation	p. 29
Element Declarations	p. 37
Attribute Declarations	p. 42
General Entity Declarations	p. 49
External Parsed General Entities	p. 50
External Unparsed Entities and Notations	p. 52
Parameter Entities	p. 53
Conditional Inclusion	p. 56
Two DTD Examples	p. 56
Locating Standard DTDs	p. 59
Namespaces	p. 60
The Need for Namespaces	p. 60
Namespace Syntax	p. 63
How Parsers Handle Namespaces	p. 68
Namespaces and DTDs	p. 69
Internationalization	p. 71
Character-Set Metadata	p. 71
The Encoding Declaration	p. 72
Text Declarations	p. 73
XML-Defined Character Sets	p. 74
Unicode	p. 74
ISO Character Sets	p. 77
Platform-Dependent Character Sets	p. 78
Converting Between Character Sets	p. 79
The Default Character Set for XML Documents	p. 80
Character References	p. 81
xml:lang	p. 84
Narrative-Like Documents
XML as a Document Format	p. 89
SGML's Legacy	p. 89
Narrative Document Structures	p. 90
TEI	p. 92
DocBook	p. 95
OpenOffice	p. 98
WordprocessingML	p. 101
Document Permanence	p. 105
Transformation and Presentation	p. 107
XML on the Web	p. 110
XHTML	p. 111
Direct Display of XML in Browsers	p. 117
Authoring Compound Documents with Modular XHTML	p. 122
Prospects for Improved Web Search Methods	p. 139
XSL Transformations (XSLT)	p. 144
An Example Input Document	p. 144
xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform	p. 145
Stylesheet Processors	p. 147
Templates and Template Rules	p. 148
Calculating the Value of an Element with xsl:value-of	p. 150
Applying Templates with xsl:apply-templates	p. 151
The Built-in Template Rules	p. 154
Modes	p. 157
Attribute Value Templates	p. 159
XSLT and Namespaces	p. 159
Other XSLT Elements	p. 161
XPath	p. 162
The Tree Structure of an XML Document	p. 162
Location Paths	p. 165
Compound Location Paths	p. 170
Predicates	p. 171
Unabbreviated Location Paths	p. 172
General XPath Expressions	p. 175
XPath Functions	p. 178
XLinks	p. 183
Simple Links	p. 183
Link Behavior	p. 185
Link Semantics	p. 187
Extended Links	p. 188
Linkbases	p. 195
DTDs for XLinks	p. 196
Base URIs	p. 197
XPointers	p. 200
XPointers on URLs	p. 200
XPointers in Links	p. 202
Shorthand Pointers	p. 203
Child Sequences	p. 204
Namespaces	p. 205
Points	p. 205
Ranges	p. 207
XInclude	p. 212
The include Element	p. 212
Including Text Files	p. 214
Content Negotiation	p. 215
Fallbacks	p. 216
XPointers	p. 217
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	p. 219
The Levels of CSS	p. 221
CSS Syntax	p. 221
Associating Stylesheets with XML Documents	p. 223
Selectors	p. 225
The Display Property	p. 228
Pixels, Points, Picas, and Other Units of Length	p. 229
Font Properties	p. 230
Text Properties	p. 231
Colors	p. 233
XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)	p. 234
XSL Formatting Objects	p. 235
The Structure of an XSL-FO Document	p. 237
Laying Out the Master Pages	p. 238
XSL-FO Properties	p. 244
Choosing Between CSS and XSL-FO	p. 249
Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)	p. 251
What's at the End of a Namespace URL?	p. 251
RDDL Syntax	p. 252
Natures	p. 256
Purposes	p. 257
Record-Like Documents
XML as a Data Format	p. 261
Why Use XML for Data?	p. 261
Developing Record-Like XML Formats	p. 271
Sharing Your XML Format	p. 277
XML Schemas	p. 278
Overview	p. 278
Schema Basics	p. 280
Working with Namespaces	p. 286
Complex Types	p. 288
Empty Elements	p. 291
Simple Content	p. 293
Mixed Content	p. 297
Allowing Any Content	p. 300
Controlling Type Derivation	p. 306
Programming Models	p. 310
Common XML Processing Models	p. 310
Common XML Processing Issues	p. 316
Generating XML Documents	p. 322
Document Object Model (DOM)	p. 324
DOM Foundations	p. 324
Structure of the DOM Core	p. 327
Node and Other Generic Interfaces	p. 328
Specific Node-Type Interfaces	p. 332
The DOMImplementation Interface	p. 339
DOM Level 3 Interfaces	p. 340
Parsing a Document with DOM	p. 343
A Simple DOM Application	p. 344
Simple API for XML (SAX)	p. 348
The ContentHandler Interface	p. 350
Features and Properties	p. 358
Filters	p. 360
Reference
XML Reference	p. 367
How to Use This Reference	p. 367
Annotated Sample Documents	p. 368
XML Syntax	p. 372
Constraints	p. 388
XML 1.0 Document Grammar	p. 399
XML 1.1 Document Grammar	p. 405
Schemas Reference	p. 411
The Schema Namespaces	p. 411
Schema Elements	p. 412
Built-in Types	p. 435
Instance Document Attributes	p. 452
XPath Reference	p. 455
The XPath Data Model	p. 455
Data Types	p. 456
Location Paths	p. 457
Predicates	p. 461
XPath Functions	p. 462
XSLT Reference	p. 469
The XSLT Namespace	p. 469
XSLT Elements	p. 469
XSLT Functions	p. 490
TrAX	p. 494
DOM Reference	p. 496
Object Hierarchy	p. 497
Object Reference	p. 497
SAX Reference	p. 574
The org.xml.sax Package	p. 574
The org.xml.sax.helpers Package	p. 581
SAX Features and Properties	p. 588
The org.xml.sax.ext Package	p. 590
Character Sets	p. 594
Character Tables	p. 596
HTML4 Entity Sets	p. 601
Other Unicode Blocks	p. 609
Index	p. 655
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