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XML in a Nutshell, Third Edition

ISBN: 0596007647
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 232

Authors: Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means

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• 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
• 8.8 Modes
• 8.9 Attribute Value Templates
• 8.10 XSLT and Namespaces
• 8.11 Other XSLT Elements
• Chapter 9. XPath
• 9.1 The Tree Structure of an XML Document
• 9.2 Location Paths
• 9.3 Compound Location Paths
• 9.4 Predicates
• 9.5 Unabbreviated Location Paths
• 9.6 General XPath Expressions
• 9.7 XPath Functions
• Chapter 10. XLinks
• 10.1 Simple Links
• 10.2 Link Behavior
• 10.3 Link Semantics
• 10.4 Extended Links
• 10.5 Linkbases
• 10.6 DTDs for XLinks
• 10.7 Base URIs
• Chapter 11. XPointers
• 11.1 XPointers on URLs
• 11.2 XPointers in Links
• 11.3 Shorthand Pointers
• 11.4 Child Sequences
• 11.5 Namespaces
• 11.6 Points
• 11.7 Ranges
• Chapter 12. XInclude
• 12.1 The include Element
• 12.2 Including Text Files
• 12.3 Content Negotiation
• 12.4 Fallbacks
• 12.5 XPointers
• Chapter 13. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• 13.1 The Levels of CSS
• 13.2 CSS Syntax
• 13.3 Associating Stylesheets with XML Documents
• 13.4 Selectors
• 13.5 The Display Property
• 13.6 Pixels, Points, Picas, and Other Units of Length
• 13.7 Font Properties
• 13.8 Text Properties
• 13.9 Colors
• Chapter 14. XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
• 14.1 XSL Formatting Objects
• 14.2 The Structure of an XSL-FO Document
• 14.3 Laying Out the Master Pages
• 14.4 XSL-FO Properties
• 14.5 Choosing Between CSS and XSL-FO
• Chapter 15. Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)
• 15.1 What s at the End of a Namespace URL?
• 15.2 RDDL Syntax
• 15.3 Natures
• 15.4 Purposes
• Part III: Record-Like Documents
• Chapter 16. XML as a Data Format
• 16.1 Why Use XML for Data?
• 16.2 Developing Record-Like XML Formats
• 16.3 Sharing Your XML Format
• Chapter 17. XML Schemas
• 17.1 Overview
• 17.2 Schema Basics
• 17.3 Working with Namespaces
• 17.4 Complex Types
• 17.5 Empty Elements
• 17.6 Simple Content
• 17.7 Mixed Content
• 17.8 Allowing Any Content
• 17.9 Controlling Type Derivation
• Chapter 18. Programming Models
• 18.1 Common XML Processing Models
• 18.2 Common XML Processing Issues
• 18.3 Generating XML Documents
• Chapter 19. Document Object Model (DOM)
• 19.1 DOM Foundations
• 19.2 Structure of the DOM Core
• 19.3 Node and Other Generic Interfaces
• 19.4 Specific Node-Type Interfaces
• 19.5 The DOMImplementation Interface
• 19.6 DOM Level 3 Interfaces
• 19.7 Parsing a Document with DOM
• 19.8 A Simple DOM Application
• Chapter 20. Simple API for XML (SAX)
• 20.1 The ContentHandler Interface
• 20.2 Features and Properties
• 20.3 Filters
• Part IV: Reference
• Chapter 21. XML Reference
• 21.1 How to Use This Reference
• 21.2 Annotated Sample Documents
• 21.3 XML Syntax
• 21.4 Constraints
• 21.5 XML 1.0 Document Grammar
• 21.6 XML 1.1 Document Grammar
• Chapter 22. Schemas Reference
• 22.1 The Schema Namespaces
• 22.2 Schema Elements
• 22.3 Built-in Types
• 22.4 Instance Document Attributes
• Chapter 23. XPath Reference
• 23.1 The XPath Data Model
• 23.2 Data Types
• 23.3 Location Paths
• 23.4 Predicates
• 23.5 XPath Functions
• Chapter 24. XSLT Reference
• 24.1 The XSLT Namespace
• 24.2 XSLT Elements
• 24.3 XSLT Functions
• 24.4 TrAX
• Chapter 25. DOM Reference
• 25.1 Object Hierarchy
• 25.2 Object Reference
• Chapter 26. SAX Reference
• 26.1 The org.xml.sax Package
• 26.2 The org.xml.sax.helpers Package
• 26.3 SAX Features and Properties
• 26.4 The org.xml.sax.ext Package
• Chapter 27. Character Sets
• 27.1 Character Tables
• 27.2 HTML4 Entity Sets
• 27.3 Other Unicode Blocks
• Colophon
• Index
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