XML: A Primer
(Imprint: M & T Books)
(Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.)
Author: Simon St. Laurent
ISBN: 155828592x

Introduction

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1—Let Data Be Data

The WYSIWYG Disaster

The HTML Explosion

Back to the Origins: Structure and SGML

HTML: Decaf SGML?

Using SGML to Leapfrog HTML

CHAPTER 2—HTML and CSS: WYSIWYG Pages

HTML Roots: Old, Original Specifications

Structured Formatting: Cascading Style Sheets

CHAPTER 3—XML: Building Structures

Browsers and Parsers

Building Blocks

Elements and Tags

Elements and Attributes

XML and HTML

Creating your own Markup: A Well-Formed Document

A Nonvalidating Parser—Lark

CHAPTER 4—Plan in the Present, Save in the Future

Who’s Involved in XML?

Focus on Structure

Document Structure

Data Structure

Elements and Attributes: Which to Use When

Planning for Processing

CHAPTER 5—Mortar and Bricks: Document Type Definitions

Parsing: An Introduction

Starting Simple

How Documents Find Their DTDs: The Prolog

<?xml?>: A Very Special Processing Instruction

Document Type Declarations

Comments

Data Structures

Data Types

Entities

Notation Declarations

Marked Sections in DTDs: IGNORE and INCLUDE

Logical Structures

Elements

Attributes

CHAPTER 6—Re-creating Web and Paper Documents with XML

To XML from HTML

Building This Book

Pass 1: A DTD That Looks Like the Old Styles

A Style Sheet for the Chapter DTD

Pass 2: Toward a Cleaner DTD

CHAPTER 7—XML for Commerce

Who (and What) Will Be Reading My XML?

A Better Electronic Catalog

Direct Connections: Business-to-Business Transactions

Direct Connections: Information Interchange

CHAPTER 8—XML for Document Management

Small Steps Toward the Paperless Office

Building Histories: A DTD for Corporate Memory

CHAPTER 9—XML for Data-Driven Applications

Data Documents

Object Documents

Metastructures—Emerging Standards Using XML

Channel Definition Format

Meta Content Framework

Open Software Description Format

Web Interface Definition Language

Futures

CHAPTER 10—The XML Linking Specification

Simple Links

Links in HTML

Simple Links in XML

Reconstructing HTML with XML

Locators and Chunks

XPointers: An Introduction

More Complex Links

CHAPTER 11—Processing XML: Applications, Servers, Browsers

Programming for XML

Tools for Programming XML

Architecture for XML Processing Applications

Extending the Server

Extending the Browser

Anatomy of a Browser

XML in the Browser: Architectural Implications

Breaking Down the Browser

XML and the Future of the Browser

CHAPTER 12—XML and the Future: Site Architectures

Current Web Site Architectures

Transitional Architectures

XML in the Browser: Implications

Web Structures as Application Architecture