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XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
By Elliotte Rusty  Harold, W. Scott  Means
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: September 2004
ISBN	: 0-596-00764-7
Pages	: 712
	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
				Section 1.1.   The Benefits of XML
				Section 1.2.   What XML Is Not
				Section 1.3.   Portable Data
				Section 1.4.   How XML Works
				Section 1.5.   The Evolution of XML
			Chapter 2.   XML Fundamentals
				Section 2.1.   XML Documents and XML Files
				Section 2.2.   Elements, Tags, and Character Data
				Section 2.3.   Attributes
				Section 2.4.   XML Names
				Section 2.5.   References
				Section 2.6.   CDATA Sections
				Section 2.7.   Comments
				Section 2.8.   Processing Instructions
				Section 2.9.   The XML Declaration
				Section 2.10.   Checking Documents for Well-Formedness
			Chapter 3.   Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
				Section 3.1.   Validation
				Section 3.2.   Element Declarations
				Section 3.3.   Attribute Declarations
				Section 3.4.   General Entity Declarations
				Section 3.5.   External Parsed General Entities
				Section 3.6.   External Unparsed Entities and Notations
				Section 3.7.   Parameter Entities
				Section 3.8.   Conditional Inclusion
				Section 3.9.   Two DTD Examples
				Section 3.10.   Locating Standard DTDs
			Chapter 4.   Namespaces
				Section 4.1.   The Need for Namespaces
				Section 4.2.   Namespace Syntax
				Section 4.3.   How Parsers Handle Namespaces
				Section 4.4.   Namespaces and DTDs
			Chapter 5.   Internationalization
				Section 5.1.   Character-Set Metadata
				Section 5.2.   The Encoding Declaration
				Section 5.3.   Text Declarations
				Section 5.4.   XML-Defined Character Sets
				Section 5.5.   Unicode
				Section 5.6.   ISO Character Sets
				Section 5.7.   Platform-Dependent Character Sets
				Section 5.8.   Converting Between Character Sets
				Section 5.9.   The Default Character Set for XML Documents
				Section 5.10.   Character References
				Section 5.11.   xml:lang
		Part II:   Narrative-Like Documents
			Chapter 6.   XML as a Document Format
				Section 6.1.   SGML's Legacy
				Section 6.2.   Narrative Document Structures
				Section 6.3.   TEI
				Section 6.4.   DocBook
				Section 6.5.   OpenOffice
				Section 6.6.   WordprocessingML
				Section 6.7.   Document Permanence
				Section 6.8.   Transformation and Presentation
			Chapter 7.   XML on the Web
				Section 7.1.   XHTML
				Section 7.2.   Direct Display of XML in Browsers
				Section 7.3.   Authoring Compound Documents with Modular XHTML
				Section 7.4.   Prospects for Improved Web Search Methods
			Chapter 8.   XSL Transformations (XSLT)
				Section 8.1.   An Example Input Document
				Section 8.2.   xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform
				Section 8.3.   Stylesheet Processors
				Section 8.4.   Templates and Template Rules
				Section 8.5.   Calculating the Value of an Element with xsl:value-of
				Section 8.6.   Applying Templates with xsl:apply-templates
				Section 8.7.   The Built-in Template Rules
				Section 8.8.   Modes
				Section 8.9.   Attribute Value Templates
				Section 8.10.   XSLT and Namespaces
				Section 8.11.   Other XSLT Elements
			Chapter 9.   XPath
				Section 9.1.   The Tree Structure of an XML Document
				Section 9.2.   Location Paths
				Section 9.3.   Compound Location Paths
				Section 9.4.   Predicates
				Section 9.5.   Unabbreviated Location Paths
				Section 9.6.   General XPath Expressions
				Section 9.7.   XPath Functions
			Chapter 10.   XLinks
				Section 10.1.   Simple Links
				Section 10.2.   Link Behavior
				Section 10.3.   Link Semantics
				Section 10.4.   Extended Links
				Section 10.5.   Linkbases
				Section 10.6.   DTDs for XLinks
				Section 10.7.   Base URIs
			Chapter 11.   XPointers
				Section 11.1.   XPointers on URLs
				Section 11.2.   XPointers in Links
				Section 11.3.   Shorthand Pointers
				Section 11.4.   Child Sequences
				Section 11.5.   Namespaces
				Section 11.6.   Points
				Section 11.7.   Ranges
			Chapter 12.   XInclude
				Section 12.1.   The include Element
				Section 12.2.   Including Text Files
				Section 12.3.   Content Negotiation
				Section 12.4.   Fallbacks
				Section 12.5.   XPointers
			Chapter 13.   Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
				Section 13.1.   The Levels of CSS
				Section 13.2.   CSS Syntax
				Section 13.3.   Associating Stylesheets with XML Documents
				Section 13.4.   Selectors
				Section 13.5.   The Display Property
				Section 13.6.   Pixels, Points, Picas, and Other Units of Length
				Section 13.7.   Font Properties
				Section 13.8.   Text Properties
				Section 13.9.   Colors
			Chapter 14.   XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
				Section 14.1.   XSL Formatting Objects
				Section 14.2.   The Structure of an XSL-FO Document
				Section 14.3.   Laying Out the Master Pages
				Section 14.4.   XSL-FO Properties
				Section 14.5.   Choosing Between CSS and XSL-FO
			Chapter 15.   Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)
				Section 15.1.   What's at the End of a Namespace URL?
				Section 15.2.   RDDL Syntax
				Section 15.3.   Natures
				Section 15.4.   Purposes
		Part III:   Record-Like Documents
			Chapter 16.   XML as a Data Format
				Section 16.1.   Why Use XML for Data?
				Section 16.2.   Developing Record-Like XML Formats
				Section 16.3.   Sharing Your XML Format
			Chapter 17.   XML Schemas
				Section 17.1.   Overview
				Section 17.2.   Schema Basics
				Section 17.3.   Working with Namespaces
				Section 17.4.   Complex Types
				Section 17.5.   Empty Elements
				Section 17.6.   Simple Content
				Section 17.7.   Mixed Content
				Section 17.8.   Allowing Any Content
				Section 17.9.   Controlling Type Derivation
			Chapter 18.   Programming Models
				Section 18.1.   Common XML Processing Models
				Section 18.2.   Common XML Processing Issues
				Section 18.3.   Generating XML Documents
			Chapter 19.   Document Object Model (DOM)
				Section 19.1.   DOM Foundations
				Section 19.2.   Structure of the DOM Core
				Section 19.3.   Node and Other Generic Interfaces
				Section 19.4.   Specific Node-Type Interfaces
				Section 19.5.   The DOMImplementation Interface
				Section 19.6.   DOM Level 3 Interfaces
				Section 19.7.   Parsing a Document with DOM
				Section 19.8.   A Simple DOM Application
			Chapter 20.   Simple API for XML (SAX)
				Section 20.1.   The ContentHandler Interface
				Section 20.2.   Features and Properties
				Section 20.3.   Filters
		Part IV:   Reference
			Chapter 21.   XML Reference
				Section 21.1.   How to Use This Reference
				Section 21.2.   Annotated Sample Documents
				Section 21.3.   XML Syntax
				Section 21.4.   Constraints
				Section 21.5.   XML 1.0 Document Grammar
				Section 21.6.   XML 1.1 Document Grammar
			Chapter 22.   Schemas Reference
				Section 22.1.   The Schema Namespaces
				Section 22.2.   Schema Elements
				Section 22.3.   Built-in Types
				Section 22.4.   Instance Document Attributes
			Chapter 23.   XPath Reference
				Section 23.1.   The XPath Data Model
				Section 23.2.   Data Types
				Section 23.3.   Location Paths
				Section 23.4.   Predicates
				Section 23.5.   XPath Functions
			Chapter 24.   XSLT Reference
				Section 24.1.   The XSLT Namespace
				Section 24.2.   XSLT Elements
				Section 24.3.   XSLT Functions
				Section 24.4.   TrAX
			Chapter 25.   DOM Reference
				Section 25.1.   Object Hierarchy
				Section 25.2.   Object Reference
			Chapter 26.   SAX Reference
				Section 26.1.   The org.xml.sax Package
				Section 26.2.   The org.xml.sax.helpers Package
				Section 26.3.   SAX Features and Properties
				Section 26.4.   The org.xml.sax.ext Package
			Chapter 27.   Character Sets
				Section 27.1.   Character Tables
				Section 27.2.   HTML4 Entity Sets
				Section 27.3.   Other Unicode Blocks
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