Essential XML for Web Professionals Book

Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
1. Introduction to XML.
What XML Is. What's a Markup Language? What's “Extensible?” Summary. What XML Is Good For. Send Anything Anywhere to Anybody. Everyone Can Understand Everything. Write Once, Display Everywhere. Free and Clear. Save the Data. A Brief History of XML. Recap.

2. Your First XML.
Overview. Elements & Nodes. Types of Elements. Empty Elements. Naming Elements. Structure & Syntax. Root Element. Closing Tags. Proper Nesting. Values Must Be in Quotation Marks. XML Version Declaration. Attributes. Rules about Attributes. Use of Attributes vs. Text Nodes. Viewing XML. Comments and the Five Special Symbols. Recap.

3. Defining XML: DTDs.
What Is a DTD? Why DTDs Are Good. Testing Your DTD. Calling an External DTD. Calling a Public DTD. Defining Elements. Advanced Element Definition (or Making Children Behave). One or More Children. Zero or More Children. Zero or One Children. Specific Number of Children. Choosing Among Children. Twins. Maybe Children, Maybe Not. Element Definition Summary. Defining Attributes. Setting Default Values. Setting and Choosing Attribute Types. Enumerated. ID. IDREF. IDREFS. NMTOKEN & NMTOKENS. Defining Entities and Notation. Predefined Entities. Shortcuts for Text. Entity Jargon. Parsed or Unparsed. General or Parameter. Internal or External. Parameter Entities. External Entities. External General Entities (for the XML). External Parameter Entities (for the DTD). Unparsed Entities and Notations. Embedding Unparsed Entities. Recap.

4. Defining XML: XML Schema.
Introduction to Namespaces. Introduction to XML Schema. Simple Types. Other Number-BasedSimple Types. Date- and Time-Based Simple Types. Miscellaneous Simple Types. Creating Custom Simple Types. Forcing Text to Fit a Pattern. Limiting Numerical Values. Limiting Length of Strings. Creating Lists. Combining Simple Types. Determining an Element's Content. Reusable Custom Simple Types. Recap.

5. XML Schema: Complex Types.
Elements Containing Other Elements. Cardinality. xsd:choice. xsd:all. Defining Attributes. Attribute Uses. Attributes and Elements. Attributes and Text. Attributes, Text, and Nested Elements. Creating Custom Complex Types. Referencing Elements and Attributes. New Complex Types Based on Existing Types. Miscellaneous. Named Groups of Elements and Attributes. Groups of Elements. Groups of Attributes. Annotation and Documentation. Including External Files. Recap.

6. Namespaces.
Purpose. Syntax. Default Namespaces. What Namespaces Are. What Namespaces Are Not. Using Namespaces. Scope. Overriding a Namespace. Multiple Namespaces. Namespaces and Attributes. Namespaces and DTDs. Namespaces and Validity. Namespaces and XML Schema. Recap.

7. XLink: Creating Links in XML.
Introduction to XLink. What XLink Can Do. How XLink Is Implemented. Concepts and Terminology. Definitions. resource. link. XLink element. traverse. arc. inbound traversal. outbound traversal. third-party traversal. XLink application. simple link. extended link. linkbases. Usage. Attributes. Elements and Their Attributes. Simple Links. type. href. show. actuate. role. arcrole. What Simple Links Can't Do. Simple Links that Seem Like Errors, but Aren't. Links without a Starting Resource. Links with no href Attribute. Simple Links in a DTD. Extended-Type Elements (Extended Links). Locator-Type Elements. Extended Links and DTDs. Resource-Type Elements. Locator-Type Elements. Arc-Type Elements. Setting Several Traversals with a Single Arc. Using arcrole and Linkbases. Title-Type Elements. Simple vs. Extended Links. XLink Attributes. type. href. Semantic Attributes (title, role, arcrole). title. role. arcrole. Behavior Attributes (show, actuate). show. actuate. Traversal Attributes (label, from, to). label. from. to. Recap.

8. XHTML: Create Working Web Pages in XML Now.
Purpose. Why Bother? Modularized XHTML. What XHTML Is. User Agent Criteria. Differences from HTML. The XHTML DTDs. Recap.

9. Beginning XSLT: Xpath.
XSL Overview. XSLT. XPath Overview. How XPath Sees the World. Root Nodes. Element Nodes. Attribute Nodes. Text Nodes. Namespace Nodes. Processing Instruction Nodes. Comment Nodes. Location Paths. Unabbreviated Location Paths. Parts of Location Paths. Abbreviated Location Paths. Predicates. Unabbreviated Location Paths with Predicates. Abbreivated Predicates. Conditionals and Operators. Functions. Node-Set Functions. last(). position(). count(location_path). id("id_name"). local-name(location_path). namespace-uri(location_path). name(location_path). String Functions. string(object). concat(string1, string2, ¿, stringn). starts-with(baseString, substring). contains(baseString, substring). substring-before(baseString, substring). substring-after(baseString, substring). substring(string, startPositon, substringLength). string-length(string). normalize-space(string). translate(baseString, startTrans, endTrans). Boolean Functions. boolean(object). not(boolean). Number Functions. number(object). sum(node-set). ceiling(number). floor(number). round(number). Recap.

10. XSLT: An Overview.
Overview of XSL. Purpose of XSLT. How XSLT Works. Instructions. Literal Elements. Root Templates. Applying Multiple Templates. Instructions. xsl:value-of. xsl:strip-space. xsl:preserve-space. xsl:sort. xsl:include. xsl:import. xsl:apply-imports. xsl:apply-templates. xsl:call-template. xsl:copy. xsl:copy-of. xsl:for-each. xsl:if. xsl:choose. xsl:when. xsl:otherwise. xsl:variable. xsl:param. xsl:with-param. xsl:decimal-format. xsl:template. xsl:namespace-alias. Creating Nodes. xsl:element. xsl:attribute. xsl:attribute-set. xsl:text. xsl:processing-instruction. xsl:number. xsl:comment. Functions. document(). format-number(). current(). unparsed-entity-uri(). generate-id(). system-property(). element-available(). function-available(). Recap.

11. XPointer: XLinking to XML Fragments.
Purpose of XPointer. What XPointer Is. ID-Type Attributes. XLink Basics. XPointer Concepts and Terminology. Points. Ranges. Location. Location-Set. Singleton. Subresource. Fragment. XPointer Basics. Full-Form XPointer. Escaping. XPointer Functions. start-point. end-point. string-range. range-to. range-inside. range. here. origin. Recap.

12. Common Examples of XML.
SMIL. Modularization. Why Bother with Modularization? Animation Modules. SplineAnimation Module. ContentControl Modules. BasicContentControl Module. CustomTestAttributes Module. PrefetchControl Module. SkipContentControl Module. Layout Modules. BasicLayout Module. AudioLayout Module. MultiWindowLayout Module. HierarchicalLayout Module. Linking Modules. LinkingAttributes Module. BasicLinking Module. ObjectLinking Module. Timing and Synchronization Module. MediaObjects Modules. BasicMedia Module. Metainformation Module. Structure Module. TimeManipulations Modules. TransitionEffects Modules. SVG. Quirks of SVG. SVG Examples. Rectangle. Circle. Paths. Text Along a Path. WDDX. Recap.

13. Manipulating XML: The DOM.
What the DOM Is and Does. Types of Nodes. DOM Interfaces. Properties and Methods. DOMImplementation. Document. Node and NodeType. NodeList. NamedNodeMap. CharacterData. Attr. Element. Text. DocumentType. Notation. Entity. ProcessingInstruction. Recap.

Appendix A: XML 1.0 Specification.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition). W3C Recommendation 6 October 2000. Abstract. Status of this Document. Table of Contents. 1 Introduction. 1.1 Origin and Goals. 1.2 Terminology. 2 Documents. 2.1 Well-Formed XML Documents. 2.2 Characters. 2.3 Common Syntactic Constructs. 2.4 Character Data and Markup. 2.5 Comments. 2.6 Processing Instructions. 2.7 CDATA Sections. 2.8 Prolog and Document Type Declaration. 2.9 Standalone Document Declaration. 2.10 White Space Handling. 2.11 End-of-Line Handling. 2.12 Language Identification. 3 Logical Structures. 3.1 Start-Tags, End-Tags, and Empty-Element Tags. 3.2 Element Type Declarations. 3.3 Attribute-List Declarations. 3.4 Conditional Sections. 4 Physical Structures. 4.1 Character and Entity References. 4.2 Entity Declarations. 4.3 Parsed Entities. 4.4 XML Processor Treatment of Entities and References. 4.5 Construction of Internal Entity Replacement Text. 4.6 Predefined Entities. 4.7 Notation Declarations. 4.8 Document Entity. 5 Conformance. 5.1 Validating and Non-Validating Processors. 5.2 Using XML Processors. 6 Notation. A References. A.1 Normative References. A.2 Other References. B Character Classes. C XML and SGML (Non-Normative). D Expansion of Entity and Character References (Non-Normative). E Deterministic Content Models (Non-Normative). F Autodetection of Character Encodings (Non-Normative). F.1 Detection Without External Encoding Information. F.2 Priorities in the Presence of External Encoding Information. G W3C XML Working Group (Non-Normative). H W3C XML Core Group (Non-Normative). I Production Notes (Non-Normative).

Appendix B: XHTML DTD: Frameset.
Frameset DTD.

Appendix C: XHTML DTDs: Entities.
Special Characters DTD. Latin Characters DTD. Symbols DTD.

Appendix D: XML Tools and Software.
XML Editors. For Macs. DTD Software. XML Parsers.

Appendix E: Keeping Up to Date on XML.
Index.