XML in a Nutshell, Third Edition - page 1
- XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
- XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- What This Book Covers
- What s New in the Third Edition
- Organization of the Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Request for Comments
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: XML Concepts
- Chapter 1. Introducing XML
- 1.1 The Benefits of XML
- 1.2 What XML Is Not
- 1.3 Portable Data
- 1.4 How XML Works
- 1.5 The Evolution of XML
- Chapter 2. XML Fundamentals
- 2.1 XML Documents and XML Files
- 2.2 Elements, Tags, and Character Data
- 2.3 Attributes
- 2.4 XML Names
- 2.5 References
- 2.6 CDATA Sections
- 2.7 Comments
- 2.8 Processing Instructions
- 2.9 The XML Declaration
- 2.10 Checking Documents for Well-Formedness
- Chapter 3. Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
- 3.1 Validation
- 3.2 Element Declarations
- 3.3 Attribute Declarations
- 3.4 General Entity Declarations
- 3.5 External Parsed General Entities
- 3.6 External Unparsed Entities and Notations
- 3.7 Parameter Entities
- 3.8 Conditional Inclusion
- 3.9 Two DTD Examples
- 3.10 Locating Standard DTDs
- Chapter 4. Namespaces
- 4.1 The Need for Namespaces
- 4.2 Namespace Syntax
- 4.3 How Parsers Handle Namespaces
- 4.4 Namespaces and DTDs
- Chapter 5. Internationalization
- 5.1 Character-Set Metadata
- 5.2 The Encoding Declaration
- 5.3 Text Declarations
- 5.4 XML-Defined Character Sets
- 5.5 Unicode
- 5.6 ISO Character Sets
- 5.7 Platform-Dependent Character Sets
- 5.8 Converting Between Character Sets
- 5.9 The Default Character Set for XML Documents
- 5.10 Character References
- 5.11 xml:lang
- Part II: Narrative-Like Documents
- Chapter 6. XML as a Document Format
- 6.1 SGML s Legacy
- 6.2 Narrative Document Structures
- 6.3 TEI
- 6.4 DocBook
- 6.5 OpenOffice
- 6.6 WordprocessingML
- 6.7 Document Permanence
- 6.8 Transformation and Presentation
- Chapter 7. XML on the Web
- 7.1 XHTML
- 7.2 Direct Display of XML in Browsers
- 7.3 Authoring Compound Documents with Modular XHTML
- 7.4 Prospects for Improved Web Search Methods
- Chapter 8. XSL Transformations (XSLT)
- 8.1 An Example Input Document
- 8.2 xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform
- 8.3 Stylesheet Processors
- 8.4 Templates and Template Rules
- 8.5 Calculating the Value of an Element with xsl:value-of
- 8.6 Applying Templates with xsl:apply-templates
- 8.7 The Built-in Template Rules
