XML Bible, 2nd Edition

by Elliotte Rusty Harold

• ISBN13: 9780764547607
• ISBN10: 0764547607
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This fast-paced and thorough tutorial/reference contains everything an experienced web developer needs to put XML to work on established or new web sites. The book covers the fundamentals of the XML language, with emphasis on the creation of XML pages and their publication on the Web; the integration of XML with HTML, databases, and scripting languages to build complex applications; Cascading Style Sheets and XSL Transformation; and supplemental technologies such as XLinks and XPointers. The CD includes all the source code from the book, a complete XML site, and a selection of useful tools.

Author Biography

Elliotte Rusty Harold is an adjunct professor of computer science at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Part I: Introducing XML	1	(208)
An Eagle's Eye View of XML	3	(14)
XML Applications	17	(38)
Your First XML Document	55	(8)
Structuring Data	63	(38)
Attributes, Empty Tags, and XSL	101	(42)
Well-formedness	143	(32)
Foreign Languages and Non-Roman Text	175	(34)
Part II: Document Type Definitions	209	(142)
DTDs and Validity	211	(16)
Element Declarations	227	(30)
Entity Declarations	257	(32)
Attribute Declarations	289	(28)
Unparsed Entities, Notations, and Non-XML Data	317	(14)
Namespaces	331	(20)
Part III: Style Languages	351	(294)
CSS Style Sheets	353	(26)
CSS Layouts	379	(48)
CSS Text Styles	427	(54)
XSL Transformations	481	(90)
XSL Formatting Objects	571	(74)
Part IV: Supplemental Technologies	645	(88)
XLinks	647	(30)
XPointers	677	(30)
The Resource Description Framework	707	(26)
Part V: XML Applications	733	(292)
XHTML	735	(52)
The Wireless Markup Language	787	(40)
Schemas	827	(54)
Scalable Vector Graphics	881	(58)
The Vector Markup Language	939	(26)
The Channel Definition Format	965	(30)
Designing a New XML Application	995	(30)
Appendix A: What's on the CD-ROM	1025	(4)
Appendix B: XML Reference Material	1029	(60)
Appendix C: The XML 1.0 Specification, Second Edition	1089	(64)
Index	1153	(59)
End-User Licence Agreement	1212	(2)
CD-ROM Installation Instructions	1214