Xml in a Nutshell (Paperback)

Preface

Part I. XML Concepts

Chapter 1. Introducing XML
What XML Offers
Portable Data
How XML Works
The Evolution of XML

Chapter 2. XML Fundamentals
XML Documents and XML Files
Elements, Tags, and Character Data
Attributes
XML Names
Entity References
CDATA Sections
Comments
Processing Instructions
The XML Declaration
Checking Documents for Well-Formedness

Chapter 3. Document Type Definitions
Validation
Element Declarations
Attribute Declarations
General Entity Declarations
External Parsed General Entities
External Unparsed Entities and Notations
Parameter Entities
Conditional Inclusion
Two DTD Examples
Locating Standard DTDs

Chapter 4. Namespaces
The Need for Namespaces
Namespace Syntax
How Parsers Handle Namespaces
Namespaces and DTDs

Chapter 5. Internationalization
The Encoding Declaration
Text Declarations
XML-Defined Character Sets
Unicode
ISO Character Sets
Platform-Dependent Character Sets
Converting Between Character Sets
The Default Character Set for XML Documents
Character References
xml:lang

Part II. Narrative-Centric Documents

Chapter 6. XML as a Document Format
SGML's Legacy
Narrative Document Structures
TEI
DocBook
Document Permanence
Transformation and Presentation

Chapter 7. XML on the Web
XHTML
Direct Display of XML in Browsers
Authoring Compound Documents with Modular XHTML
Prospects for Improved Web Search Methods

Chapter 8. XSL Transformations
An Example Input Document
xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform
Stylesheet Processors
Templates
Calculating the Value of an Element with xsl:value-of
Applying Templates with xsl:apply-templates
The Built-in Template Rules
Modes
Attribute Value Templates
XSLT and Namespaces
Other XSLT Elements

Chapter 9. XPath
The Tree Structure of an XML Document
Location Paths
Compound Location Paths
Predicates
Unabbreviated Location Paths
General XPath Expressions
XPath Functions

Chapter 10. XLinks
Simple Links
Link Behavior
Link Semantics
Extended Links
Linkbases
DTDs for XLinks

Chapter 11. XPointers
XPointers on URLs
XPointers in Links
Bare Names
Child Sequences
Points
Ranges

Chapter 12. Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
The Three Levels of CSS
CSS Syntax
Associating Stylesheets with XML Documents
Selectors
The Display Property
Pixels, Points, Picas, and Other Units of Length
Font Properties
Text Properties
Colors

Chapter 13. XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
XSL Formatting Objects
The Structure of an XSL-FO Document
Master Pages
XSL-FO Properties
Choosing Between CSS and XSL-FO

Part III. Data-Centric Documents

Chapter 14. XML as a Data Format
Programming Applications of XML
Describing Data
Support for Programmers

Chapter 15. Programming Models
Event- Versus Object-Driven Models
Programming Language Support
Non-Standard Extensions
Transformations
Processing Instructions
Links and References
Notations
What You Get Is Not What You Saw

Chapter 16. Document Object Model (DOM)
DOM Core
DOM Strengths and Weaknesses
Parsing a Document with DOM
The Node Interface
Specific Node Types
The DOMImplementation Interface
A Simple DOM Application

Chapter 17. SAX
The ContentHandler Interface
SAX Features and Properties

Part IV. Reference

Chapter 18. XML 1.0 Reference
How to Use This Reference
Annotated Sample Documents
Key to XML Syntax
Well-Formedness
Validity
Global Syntax Structures
DTD (Document Type Definition)
Document Body
XML Document Grammar

Chapter 19. XPath Reference
The XPath Data Model
Datatype
Location Paths
Predicates
XPath Functions

Chapter 20. XSLT Reference
The XSLT Namespace
XSLT Elements
XSLT Functions

Chapter 21. DOM Reference
Object Hierarchy
Object Reference

Chapter 22. SAX Reference
The org.xml.sax Package
The org.xml.sax.helpers Package
SAX Features and Properties
The org.xml.sax.ext Package

Chapter 23. Character Sets
Character Tables
HTML4 Entity Sets
Other Unicode Blocks

Index