Learning XML (Paperback, 2)

Foreword


Preface

1. Introduction
What Is XML?
Where Did XML Come From?
What Can I Do with XML?
How Do I Get Started?

2. Markup and Core Concepts
Tags
Documents
The Document Prolog
Elements
Entities
Miscellaneous Markup

3. Modeling Information
Simple Data Storage
Narrative Documents
Complex Data
Documents Describing Documents

4. Quality Control with Schemas
Basic Concepts
DTDs
W3C XML Schema
RELAX NG
Schematron
Schemas Compared

5. Presentation Part I: CSS
Stylesheets
CSS Basics
Rule Matching
Properties
Examples

6. XPath and XPointer
Nodes and Trees
Finding Nodes
XPath Expressions
XPointer

7. Transformation with XSLT
History
Concepts
Running Transformations
The stylesheet Element
Templates
Formatting

8. Presentation Part II: XSL-FO
How It Works
A Quick Example
The Area Model
Formatting Objects
An Example: TEI
A Bigger Example: DocBook

9. Internationalization
Character Encodings
MIME and Media Types
Specifying Human Languages

10. Programming
Limitations
Streams and Events
Trees and Objects
Pull Parsing
Standard APIs
Choosing a Parser
PYX
SAX
DOM
Other Options

A. Resources

B. A Taxonomy of Standards

Glossary

Index