XML in a nutshell

Whether a Web designer uses SMIL to add animations to web pages or a C++ programmer uses SOAP to serialize objects into a remote database, XML in a Nutsbell covers the fundamental rules that A XML documents and authors must adhere to, including:

Essentials of the basic XML standard. Gain an understanding cf well-formed XML, DTDs, namespaces, and Unicode as quickly as possible.

An exploration of key technologies used mainly for narrative XML documents such as web pages, books, and articles. Develop a working knowledge of XSLT, XPath, XLinks, XPointers, CSS, and XSL-FO.

The use of XML for data-intensive documents. One of the most unexpected developments in XML was its enthusiastic adoption for structured documents such as spreadsheets, financial statistics, mathernatical tables, and software file formats. Understand the tools and APIs needed to write software that processes XML, including SAX, the Simple API for XML, and DOM, the W3C Document Object Model.

This book also contains a set of quick-refé4ence chapters that form the core of any O'Reilly Nutshell refèrence. These chapters give you detailed syntax rules and usage examples for the core XML techn~Iogies, including XML, DTDs, Xpath, XSLT, SAX, and DOM. This is the section to turn to when you need to quickly find the precise syntax for something you know you can do but don't remember exactly how to do.

XML in a Nutsbell is an essential part of helping developers format files and data structures correctly for use in XML documents. You'Il want to keep this book close at hand as you delve into XML.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Part I XML
• Introducing XML
• XML Fundamentals
• Document Type Definitions
• Namespaces
• Internationalization
• Narrative-Centric Documents
• XML one the Web
• XSL Transformations
• Xpath
• Xlinks
• Xpointers
• Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)
• XSL Formatting Objects (xsl-fo)
• Part III Data Centric Documents
• Chapter 14 XML as Data Format
• Programming Models
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• SAX
• Part IV Reference
• XML 1.0 Reference
• Xpath Reference
• XSLT Reference
• DOM Reference
• SAX Reference
• Character Sets
• Index