XML Made Simple

Description

Content: What is XML? Background to XML SGML The Web and HTML HTML described HTML shortcomings The Extensible Markup Language Uses of XML Exercises XML documents: XML is strict What makes a document? Comments and spacing Element rules Attribute rules Character encoding Entities Unparsed data Exercises Document Type Definition: DTDs and XML documents Defining elements Attributes General and parameter entities Unparsed entities City quide Exercises XML on the Web: Cascading style sheets CSS files Our first stylesheet Text features More style Positioning elements Exercises Namespaces and XSD: Namespaces Namespace syntax XSD Element types Data types Facets Attributes A new schema Exercises XLST: Transforming XML Transformations on the client Xpath Making a XSLT stylesheet Multiple templates Looping and checking Exercises XML miscellany: Linking XHTML Converting HTML to XHTML Document object models SAX Exercises Enhancing web content: Multimedia SMIL Rich media Regions Embedding a presentation Popularising your site using XML Rich Site Summary Aggregators RSS standards Exercises WAP and mobile devices: Mobiles and the Internet WAP technology Testing WAP pages WAP browsers A WML page Multiple cards Mobile-compatible images Input, events and timers The future Exercises Real-world XML: XML tools SVG MathML XML Encryption SOAP Web services Enhancing documents Looking forward Web sites Appendices: XML overview CSS overview SMIL overview WML overview Answers to exercises Glossary.