XML Companion

Name: XML Companion
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ISBN: 9780201674866

ISBN-10: 0201674866

ISBN-13: 9780201674866

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Neil Bradley

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This work covers all the features of XML, and sets them within an applied setting. In addition to the specifications of XML, readers will learn how to create powerful Web applications and see the actual workings of XML.

Book details

List price: $41.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Publication date: 12/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.17" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.914
Language: English



Preface



Using this book


Book structure


Style conventions


The XML Standard



Overview


What is XML?


Data exchange applications


Document publishing applications


Historical context


The future


Syntax overview



Document markup


Concepts


Traditional markup


Elements


Attributes


Reserved attributes


Declarations


Processing instructions



Physical structure (entities)


Concepts


Defining an entity


Character defining entities


Usage limitations



Logical structure (the DTD)


Concepts


DTD structure


Element declarations


Attribute declarations


Parameter entities


Conditional sections


Notation declarations


DTD processing issues


Working with XML



Document modelling (DTD design)


Analysis


DTD design


Tables


Architectural forms


Writing the DTD


Debugging the DTD


Case study (this book)


Case study (a DTD for DTDs)



White space issues


White space


Line-end normalization


White space in markup


Element content space


Preserved space


Ambiguous space



Namespaces


Compound documents


The standard


Namespace identification


Using namespaces


Simplification techniques


DTD issues



Processing XML data


Concepts


Writing XML


Reading XML


Event processing


Tree manipulation


Events or trees?


Transformation tools



Managing XML documents


Concepts


External entity management


XML Catalog format


Database storage


Adjunct Standards



Navigating with (URL and XPath)


Locating documents (URLs)


Inside XML documents (XPaths)


Expressions


Location paths


Patterns


Predicate filters



Hypertext links (XLink and XPointer)


Concepts


XML syntax basic links


XML linking specification


Extending URLs


XPointers


Link behaviour


Attribute name conflicts


Link value strategies



Document formatting (XSL and XSLT)


Concepts


Selecting a style sheet


XSLT


Style sheets DTD issues


XSL



SAX 1.0


Background


Call-backs and interfaces


Java implementation


The parser


Document handlers


Attribute lists


Error handlers


Locators


DTD handlers


Input sources


Entity resolvers


Handler bases



DOM 1.0


Java implementation


Nodes


The Sun tree-walker


Documents


Document types


Elements


Attributes


Character data


Text


Character data sections


Comments


Processing instructions


Entities and notations


Node lists


Named node maps


Document fragments


DOM implementation


Related standards



Character sets


Characters


ASCII


Extended ASCII


Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646


Character set declarations


Entities for characters



Cascading style sheets (CSS)


Background


Format overview


Styling properties


Simple element mapping


Contextual rules


Accessing and overriding styles


XML specifics


Batch composition to HTML


HTML features


CSS 2



The Internet and HTML


The Internet


HTTP and HTML


HTML 2.0


HTML 3.2


HTML 4.0


XHTML 1.0 (draft)


Mixing HTML with XML



SGML


Concepts


The SGML Declaration


Extra DTD features


Markup minimization techniques


Converting to XML


Reference



Charts and tables


Acronyms list


Useful Web pages


XML design goals


XML fragments


SAX methods


DOM methods


XSL formatting objects and properties


CSS properties


This book DTD


ISO 8859/1 character set


ISO 639 language codes


ISO 3166 country codes


HTML 2/3/4 elements and attributes



XML road map


Map formats


Content lists


Maps


Glossary


Index