Xml Bible: Gold Edition

by Elliotte Rusty Harold

• ISBN13: 9780764548192
• ISBN10: 0764548190
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

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. XML Bible, Gold Edition 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. This book also covers Cascading Style Sheets and XSL Transformation; and supplemental technologies such as XLinks and XPointers.

Author Biography

<b>Elliotte Rusty Harold</b> is an internationally respected writer, programmer, and educator both on the Internet and off. He got his start by writing FAQ lists for the Macintosh newsgroups on Usenet, and has since branched out into books, Web sites, and newsletters. He lectures about Java and object-oriented programming at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. His Cafe con Leche Web site at http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ has become one of the most popular independent XML sites on the Internet.<br> te is originally from New Orleans where he returns periodically in search of a decent bowl of gumbo. However, he currently resides in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn with his wife Beth and cats Charm (named after the quark) and Marjorie (named after his mother-in-law). When not writing books, he enjoys working on genealogy, mathematics, and quantum mechanics. His previous books include <I>The Java Developer's Resource, Java Network Programming, Java Secrets, JavaBeans, XML: Extensible Markup Language</I>, and <I>Java I/O</I>.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xvi
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	(340)
CSS Style Sheets	353	(26)
CSS Layouts	379	(48)
CSS Text Styles	427	(52)
CSS Level III	479	(52)
XSL Transformations	531	(88)
XSL Formatting Objects	619	(72)
Part IV: Supplemental Technologies	691	(212)
XLinks	693	(38)
XPointers	731	(30)
XInclude	761	(24)
Schemas	785	(64)
The Resource Description Framework	849	(26)
Canonical XML	875	(28)
Part V: XML Applications	903	(434)
Reading DTDs	905	(88)
XHTML	993	(52)
Modular XHTML	1045	(46)
The Resource Directory Description Language	1091	(16)
The Wireless Markup Language	1107	(40)
Scalable Vector Graphics	1147	(58)
The Vector Markup Language	1205	(26)
The Channel Definition Format	1231	(30)
Designing a New XML Application	1261	(76)
Appendix A: What's on the CD-ROM	1337	(6)
Appendix B: XML Reference Material	1343	(60)
Appendix C: The XML 1.0 Specification, Second Edition	1403	(70)
Index	1473	(96)
End-User Licence Agreement	1569	(3)
CD-ROM Installation Instructions	1572