XML in a nutshell. Transl. from the Engl. by Kathrin Lichtenberg \& Jochen Wiedmann (Q2740528)

This book is a primer for XML, the Extensible Markup Language, and it is divided into four major parts. The first one deals with fundamental notions underlying XML, Document Type Definitions (DTD), name spaces, and the unicode character set. The second part focuses on techniques used for text-oriented documents such as XHTML (an XML-compatible version of HTML), XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language, the rule set for an XML application by which one XML document is transformed into another XML document), XLinks (an attribute-based syntax for hyperlinks between (XML) documents), syntaxes for identifying certain parts of XML documents (such as XPointer and XPath), and languages for the presentation level of XML documents such as CSS (Cascading Stylesheets) and XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects). The third part deals with data-oriented documents (spreadsheets, statistical data, etc.) by considering tools and APIs needed for manipulating XML sources such as SAX (Simple API for XML, an event-based Java programming interface) and DOM (the tree-structured Document Object Model). The fourth part constitutes a reference manual for XML 1.0, DTD, XPath, XSLT, SAX, DOM Level 1 and Level 2 Core DOM, and various character sets.