- Author: Selena Sol
- Format: online HTML
- Price: free
In this tutorial, Selena Sol walks you through XML and the sister XSL style sheet language. Using simple, well-explained examples, Sol shows you how to get up to speed with the syntax of XML.
Chapters include:
- What is a Markup Language
- What is XML
- Advantages of XML: Breaking the Tag Monopoly
- Advantages of XML: Moving Beyond Format
- Disadvantages of XML
- History of XML
- The Basics of XML
- Well Formed XML
- XML Document Structure
- Data Versus Markup
- The XML Declaration
- Elements
- Character Data
- Tags
- CDATA
- Comments
- Processing Instructions
- Entities
- General Entities
- Parameter Entities
- The DOCTYPE Declarations
- Entity References
- Introducing the Valid XML Document and the DTD
- The Prolog and The Body
- The Basic DTD
- Element Type Declarations (ETDs)
- Defining Elements and their Children
- Ordering Child Elements
- Repeated Elements
- Grouping Elements
- Either/Or
- Optional Children
- Mixed Content
- Empty Elements
- Defining Valid Element Attributes
- Attribute Defaults
- Attribute Types
- CDATA TYPE
- ENUMERATED TYPE
- ID and IDREF
- NMTOKEN and NMTOKENS
- NOTATION TYPE
- Entity Declarations
- Gathering DTDs from Multiple Sources
- Public DTDs
