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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Why XML is "eXtreMely cooL" | |
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| What Is XML and Why Should You Care? | |
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| A Wee Bit of Background | |
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| XML Suits Many Applications | |
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| XML for ducuments | |
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| XML for data exchange | |
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| If You Know HTML, You Know XML | |
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| Marking Up Is Hard to Do--Not! | |
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| Break out that text editor! | |
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| XML editors: More power, more convenience | |
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| The Power of XML | |
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| More meaningful names in your documents | |
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| XML defines new languages | |
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| Web Pages before--and after--XML | |
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| XML: One document, many different outputs | |
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| XML for data--HTML for display | |
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| Better post-processing | |
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| The Beginnings of XML | |
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| What HTML Does Best, and Where Its Limits Lie | |
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| XML and HTML Compared and Contrasted | |
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| The benefits of using HTML | |
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| The benefits of using XML | |
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| Making the Switch: HTML to XML | |
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| All elements have a start tag and an end tag | |
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| Tags are nested correctly | |
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| All attribute values are quoted | |
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| Empty elements are formatted correctly | |
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| XHTML 1.0: Best of Both Worlds | |
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| Cool Tools for Building XML Documents | |
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| Building XML Documents by Hand | |
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| Making an XML declaration | |
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| Creating a root element | |
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| Creating XML code | |
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| Checking your document | |
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| Shake Hands with XML! | |
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| A Truly Simple XML Document | |
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| The Least You Need to Know: Basic Rules for XML Markup | |
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| Style Sheets, Document Type Definitions, and Documentation | |
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| Free at last, free at last: Data independent of context | |
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| With style comes context | |
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| DTDs and context | |
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| Ready to Roll Your Own XML? | |
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| XML by Excellent Example | |
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| Exchanging business data with XML/EDI | |
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| Using OFX to describe financial data | |
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| Tracking ancestry with GedML | |
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| XML for Everyone | |
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| Structuring XML Documents | |
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| Understanding XML Document Structure | |
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| Mastering the Basics: Pieces and Parts | |
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| A well-formed road is a good road | |
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| Seeking validation | |
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| Preambles and Definitions Start the Game | |
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| Declare yourself! | |
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| Document it | |
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| Good Bodies Make for Good Reading | |
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| The root of the matter | |
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| It's elementary, my dear | |
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| Attributes add information | |
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| The Virtues of Completeness | |
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| Making XML Well-Formed | |
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| Checking Your Work | |
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| Understanding and Using DTDs | |
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| What's a DTD? | |
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| Reading a Simple DTD | |
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| XML prolog | |
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| XML declaration | |
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| Document type declaration | |
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| Comments | |
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| Processing instructions | |
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| What about that white space? | |
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| Element Declarations | |
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| Any or empty can do the trick | |
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| Mixed content mixes it up | |
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| Element content keeps your children in line | |
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| Attribute List Declarations | |
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| Entity Declarations | |
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| Notation Declarations | |
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| Deciding Whether to Have a DTD | |
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| Ways to Include DTDs or Definitions | |
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| The inside view: Internal DTD subsets | |
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| Calling for outside support: Referencing external DTDs | |
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| Two is sometimes better than one | |
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| How Documents Digest DTDs | |
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| Building DTDs | |
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| Quick Recap | |
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| Understanding Your Data | |
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| Capturing Data Elements in Code | |
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| Elements are the root of all structure | |
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| Attributes shed some light | |
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| Developing and Defining Your Elements | |
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| Elements content can mix it up, too | |
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| What about Attributes? | |
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| Creating Shortcuts with Entities | |
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| Internalize it | |
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| External entities save time | |
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| Calling Your DTD | |
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| Internal subset | |
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| External subset | |
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| Tricks of the Trade | |
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| Creating a Simple External DTD | |
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| Building XML Documents | |
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| Attributes Add Flexibility to XML | |
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| The Truth about Attributes | |
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| Appropriate Use of Attributes | |
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| Common HTML 4.0 attributes: The plus side | |
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| Common HTML 4.0 attributes: The minus side | |
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| Adding Attributes to DTDs | |
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| The ten types of attributes in DTDs | |
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| Attributes and their defaults | |
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| Predefined XML Attributes | |
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| Putting Your DTD to Work | |
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| Eliciting Markup from the DTD | |
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| Understanding the implications | |
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| Trading flexibility against structure | |
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| Add levels to simplify structure | |
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| A matter of selection | |
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| Mixing up the order | |
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| Mixing Up Your Content Models | |
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| Trading Control for Flexibility | |
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| Combining Multiple DTDs | |
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| Working with Entities in DTDs | |
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| Parameter Entities Work in DTDs | |
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| Calling All DTDs! | |
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| When DTD Definitions Collide | |
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| Wandering outside XML's Boundaries | |
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| Turning DTD Content On or Off | |
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| Adding Character to XML | |
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| About Character Encodings | |
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| Introducing Unicode | |
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| Of Character Sets, Fonts, Scripts, and Glyphs | |
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| For Each Character, a Code | |
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| Key Character Sets | |
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| Using Unicode Characters | |
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| Finding Character Entity Information | |
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| The Sense of Style for XML | |
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| How Style Really Works | |
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| Stylin' XML and HTML | |
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| Adding form to function | |
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| One document, many uses | |
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| When Style Sheets Cascade | |
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| CSS1: The original master of Web style | |
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| CSS2: The current style master | |
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| What does cascading mean? | |
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| The Basics of CSS | |
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| A truly simple cascading style sheet for XML | |
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| Dissecting a simple cascading style sheet | |
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| Linking CSS to HTML and XML | |
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| The Best of CSS on the Web | |
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| Meet XSL | |
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| The Building Blocks of CSS | |
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| CSS: Today's Style of Choice | |
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| The realities of the Web must intrude | |
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| CSS is easy to use | |
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| Style sheets for tomorrow | |
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| XSL and CSS pack a powerful 1-2 punch | |
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| All about CSS Properties and Values | |
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| Units of measure in CSS | |
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| Decoding property value definitions | |
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| Styling and formatting text | |
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| Defining display | |
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| Setting margins | |
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| Applying backgrounds and borders | |
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| Padding the box | |
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| Controlling layout | |
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| Other cool CSS properties | |
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| From CSS to XSL | |
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| Applying Style to XML with XSL | |
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| The Two Faces of XSL | |
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| XSL | |
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| XSLT | |
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| XSL style sheets are XML documents | |
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| A Simple Transformation Using XSLT | |
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| The bean burrito recipe | |
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| Describing the bean burrito recipe with HTML | |
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| An XSL style sheet for converting XML to HTML | |
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| An XSLT Style Sheet in Detail | |
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| Templates | |
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| Patterns | |
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| Results | |
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| Processing element content | |
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| Just the text, please | |
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| Dealing with repeating elements | |
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| A Different Approach | |
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| Just the Tip of the Iceberg | |
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| Special Topics on XML Style | |
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| Objectifying XML | |
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| Of parents, children, and siblings | |
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| A forest of trees and nodes | |
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| The DOM and style sheets | |
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| Web browsers and the DOM | |
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| Combining Style Sheets | |
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| Importing one style sheet into another | |
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| Including one style sheet within another | |
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| Embedding a style sheet directly in an XML document | |
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| XML's Lovely Linking Languages | |
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| The XML Linking Language | |
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| XLink Explored and Explained | |
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| Using Namespaces | |
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| Linking Elements in XLink | |
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| The XLink namespace | |
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| Types of linking elements | |
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| [xlink:simple] Links | |
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| What can we show you? | |
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| Describing local and remote links | |
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| Extending Basic Linking Behaviors | |
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| The [xlink:extended] element | |
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| The [xlink:locator] element | |
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| When Links Get Out of Line | |
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| Creating Link Groups | |
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| Creating Link Elements in DTDs | |
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| XHTML versus XLink | |
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| The XML Path Language | |
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| Where Do XPaths Lead? | |
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| Why do you need directions? | |
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| The paths and waystations of XML | |
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| XPath Directions and Destinations | |
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| LocationPaths: Describing the Journey | |
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| Some simple location paths | |
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| Adding expressions | |
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| Taking steps | |
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| More on adding expressions | |
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| Looking at attributes | |
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| May I see your ID? | |
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| Going backwards | |
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| Reversing direction | |
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| Null results | |
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| Getting to the root of things | |
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| The Axes of XPath | |
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| The Short Version | |
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| Client axis abbreviations | |
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| Attribute axis abbreviation | |
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| Predicate and expression abbreviations | |
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| Some more abbreviations | |
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| Using XPath with XPointer and XSL | |
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| Where Now? | |
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| The XML Pointer Language | |
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| Anchors (and Fragments) Away | |
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| Why Do We Need XPointers? | |
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| The Promise of XPointers | |
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| How Do XPointers Work? | |
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| Show me your ID | |
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| Please step me through this! | |
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| Show me the path | |
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| Where do I start? | |
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| What if I don't have my ID? | |
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| How much can I get you? | |
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| Other XPointer methods and functions | |
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| Sampling XML Applications | |
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| XML Can Channel from Many Sources | |
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| What Is a Channel? | |
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| Smart pull and push | |
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| Where does XML fit in? | |
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| Subscribing to channels | |
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| Setting a schedule to download content | |
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| Building Channels with Basic CDF | |
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| CDF Unleashed | |
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| Scheduling channel updates | |
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| Controlling Web page retrieval | |
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| Defining sections within your channel | |
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| Identify your channels with logos | |
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| Logging channel user activities | |
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| Adding a Channel to Your Home Page Step by Step | |
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| First things first--the right server setup | |
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| Deploying your channel | |
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| Microsoft's plethora of CDF resources and tools | |
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| The Mathematical Markup Language | |
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| MathML Explored | |
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| For more on MathML | |
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| MathML markup | |
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| MathML Presentation Markup | |
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| A token form of presentation | |
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| MathML's layout schemata | |
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| MathML Content Markup | |
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| Arithmetic and algebraic elements | |
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| Basic content elements | |
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| Linear algebra | |
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| Relations | |
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| Sequences and series | |
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| Set theory | |
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| Statistics | |
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| Trigonometry | |
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| Logarithms and calculus | |
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| Mixing Markup: Presentation and Content | |
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| Basic MathML Design Guidelines | |
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| Using MathML in HTML Documents | |
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| MathML Tools and More | |
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| DocBook for XML | |
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| What Is DocBook? | |
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| Booking it | |
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| Get in line! | |
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| How Is DocBook Organized? | |
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| Getting classy | |
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| Mixing it up | |
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| Modularizing DocBook | |
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| The Structure of DocBook | |
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| What's on top? | |
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| What's in the middle? | |
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| What's down below? | |
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| DocBook goes into details | |
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| A DocBook Example | |
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| What's So Great about DocBook? | |
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| DocBook is a living DTD | |
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| DocBook is stable | |
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| DocBook is versatile | |
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| DocBook is extensible | |
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| When Not to Use DocBook | |
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| Reading DocBook's DTD | |
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| Parameter entities | |
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| Are you ignoring me? | |
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| Modularization | |
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| SGML versus XML | |
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| Differences in documents | |
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| Differences in DTDs | |
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| The DocBook DTD | |
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| DocBook lite | |
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| Adding to DocBook | |
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| Taking away from DocBook | |
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| Cool XML Technologies Rule! | |
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| Cool Tools | |
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| To the Point | |
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| If You Build It, They Will Come | |
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| Adept Editor v9.0 | |
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| Clip! XML Editor v1.5 | |
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| XMetaL | |
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| XML Authority v1.1 | |
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| XML Pro v2.0 | |
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| Valid and Well-Formed Documents Always Get Along | |
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| AElfred v1.2a | |
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| SP v1.3 and expat v1.1 | |
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| IBM's XML4J | |
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| Tim Bray's Lark | |
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| View It with a Browser | |
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| Amaya | |
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| Internet Explorer 5 | |
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| Jumbo | |
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| Mozilla | |
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| The Ultimate XML grab bag and goodie box | |
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| POET Software | |
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| Microsoft Does XML Too! | |
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| Automating XML excellence | |
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| Ultimate XML Resources Online | |
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| Specifications | |
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| General Information | |
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| Tutorials | |
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| Mailing Lists | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Reasons to Enjoy XML--Really! | |
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| Save Time--Use ENTITY | |
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| Create Your Own Rules | |
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| Add Style the Easy Way | |
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| XML Complements HTML | |
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| Searching for Something? | |
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| Rich Links Enrich Functionality | |
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| Well-Formed XML Guarantees Readability | |
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| MathML Captures Mathematical Requirements | |
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| CDF Brings Channels to the Web | |
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| But Wait, There's More... | |
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| Ten Stylish XML Extensions | |
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| Add Tables with HTML | |
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| Use CSS for Easy Formatting | |
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| Combine Those Sheets | |
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| Combine XSL and CSS | |
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| Display It Again, Sam! | |
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| Add Variables with XSL | |
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| Attribute Value Templates | |
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| Find Style with XHTML | |
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| Create Style the Easy Way | |
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| Let Companies Talk to Each Other | |
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| Ten Top XML Applications | |
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| Channel Definition Format (CDF) | |
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| DocBook, Anyone? | |
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| Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) | |
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| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) | |
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| Resource Description Framework (RDF) | |
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| Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) | |
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| Web Interface Definition Language (WIDL) | |
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| XML-Data | |
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| Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) | |
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| Create XML Applications with Zope | |
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| About the CD | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Using the CD with Microsoft Windows | |
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| Using the CD with the Mac OS | |
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| What You'll Find | |
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| Book-related CD Content | |
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| If You Have Problems of the CD Kind | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |
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| IDG Books Worldwide End-User License Agreement | |
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| Installation Instructions | |
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| Book Registration Information | |