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About the BookExtensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own elements. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems, particularly via local networks and the Internet. In this 2nd Edition of Elizabeth Castro's best-selling "XML for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guide)," I use concise instructions and substantive screen shots to teach beginning users all they need to know to write XML, XSL, DTD, XML Schema, and more. For anyone wanting to learn XML and its related technologies, this book is the most current, comprehensive and easy-to-follow tutorial you'll find today. If you would like to read the first Chapter of my book, I've included a link to it below. Table of ContentsIntroduction What is XML? The Power of XML Extending XML XML in Practice About This Book What This Book is Not Part 1: XML Chapter 1: Writing XML (download a PDF of Chapter 1) An XML Sample Rules for Writing XML Elements, Attributes, and Values How to Begin Creating the Root Element Writing Child Elements Nesting Elements Adding Attributes Using Empty Elements Writing Comments Predefined Entities - Five Special Symbols Displaying Elements as Text Part 2: XSL Chapter 2: XSLT Transforming XML with XSLT Beginning an XSLT Style Sheet Creating the Root Template Outputting HTML Outputting Values Looping Over Nodes Processing Nodes Conditionally Adding Conditional Choices Sorting Nodes Before Processing Generating Output Attributes Creating and Applying Templates Chapter 3: XPath Patterns and Expressions Locating Nodes Determining the Current Node Referring to the Current Node Selecting a Node's Children Selecting a Node's Parent or Siblings Selecting a Node's Attributes Conditionally Selecting Nodes Creating Absolute Location Paths Selecting All of the Descendants Chapter 4: XPath Functions Comparing Two Values Testing the Position Multiplying, Dividing, Adding, Subtracting Counting Nodes Formatting Numbers Rounding Numbers Extracting Substrings Changing the Case of a String Totaling Values More XPath Functions Chapter 5: XSL-FO The Two Parts of an XSL-FO Document Creating an XSL-FO Document Creating and Styling Blocks of Page Content Adding Images Defining a Page Template Creating a Page Template Header Using XSLT to Create XSL-FO Inserting Page Breaks Outputting Page Content in Columns Adding a New Page Template Part 3: DTD Chapter 6: Creating a DTD Working with DTDs Defining an Element That Contains Text Defining an Empty Element Defining an Element That Contains a Child Defining an Element That Contains Children Defining How Many Occurrences Defining Choices Defining an Element That Contains Anything About Attributes Defining Attributes Defining Default Values Defining Attributes with Choices Referencing Attributes with Unique Values Restricting Attributes to Valid XML Names Chapter 7: Entities and Notations in DTDs Creating a General Entity Using General Entities Creating an External General Entity Creating Entities for Unparsed Content Embedding Unparsed Content Creating and Using Parameter Entities Creating an External Parameter Entity Chapter 8: Validation and Using DTDs Creating an External DTD Declaring an External DTD Declaring and Creating an Internal DTD Validating XML Documents Against a DTD Naming a Public External DTD Declaring a Public External DTD Pros and Cons of DTDs Part 4: XML Schema Chapter 9: XML Schema Basics Working with XML Schema Beginning a Simple XML Schema Associating an XML Schema with an XML Document Annotating Schemas Chapter 10: Defining Simple Types Defining a Simple Type Element Using Date and Time Types Using Number Types Predefining an Element's Content Deriving Custom Simple Types Deriving Named Custom Types Specifying a Range of Acceptable Values Specifying a Set of Acceptable Values Limiting the Length of an Element Specifying a Pattern for an Element Limiting a Number's Digits Deriving a List Type Deriving a Union Type Chapter 11: Defining Complex Types Complex Type Basics Deriving Anonymous Complex Types Deriving Named Complex Types Defining Complex Types That Contain Child Elements Requiring Child Elements to Appear in Sequence Allowing Child Elements to Appear in Any Order Creating a Set of Choices Defining Elements to Contain Only Text Defining Empty Elements Defining Elements with Mixed Content Deriving Complex Types from Existing Complex Types Referencing Globally Defined Elements Controlling How Many Defining Named Model Groups Referencing a Named Model Group Defining Attributes Requiring an Attribute Predefining an Attribute's Content Defining Attribute Groups Referencing Attribute Groups Local and Global Definitions Part 5: Namespaces Chapter 12: XML Namespaces Designing a Namespace Name Declaring a Default Namespace Declaring a Namespace Name Prefix Labeling Elements with a Namespace Prefix How Namespaces Affect Attributes Chapter 13: Using XML Namespaces Populating an XML Namespace XML Schemas, XML Documents, and Namespaces Referencing XML Schema Components in Namespaces Namespaces and Validating XML Adding All Locally Defined Elements Adding Particular Locally Defined Elements XML Schemas in Multiple Files XML Schemas with Multiple Namespaces The Schema of Schemas as the Default Namespaces and DTDs XSLT and Namespaces Part 6: Recent W3C Recommendations Chapter 14: XSLT 2.0 Extending XSLT Creating a Simplified Style Sheet Generating XHTML Output Documents Generating Multiple Output Documents Creating User Defined Functions Grouping Output Using Common Values Validating XSLT Output Chapter 15: XPath 2.0 XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Averaging Values in a Sequence Finding the Minimum or Maximum Value Formatting Strings Testing Conditions Quantifying a Condition Removing Duplicate Items Looping Over Sequences Using Today’s Date and Time Writing Comments Processing Non-XML Input Chapter 16: XQuery 1.0 XQuery 1.0 vs. XSLT 2.0 Composing an XQuery Document Identifying an XML Source Document Using XPath Expressions Writing FLWOR Expressions Testing with Conditional Expressions Joining Two Related Data Sources Creating and Calling User Defined Functions XQuery and Databases Part 7: XML in Practice Chapter 17: Ajax, RSS, SOAP, and More Ajax Basics Ajax Examples RSS Basics RSS Schema Extending RSS SOAP and Web Services SOAP Message Schema WSDL KML Basics A Simple KML File ODF and OOXML eBooks, ePub, and More Tools for XML in Practice Appendices Appendix A: XML Tools XML Editors Additional XML Editors XML Tools and Resources Appendix B: Characters Sets and Entities Specifying the Character Encoding Using Numeric Character References Using Entity References Unicode Characters Index |
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