XML Learning by Example

Description

The Benefits of Learning XML
XML Tags
Empty Elements
Element Attributes
Comments
White Space
Information and Metainformation
Similarities between Databases and XML
How Does XML Read Data?
Displaying Data in an XML File Using External Sources
Ex. A: Formatting Using CSS
Different Media and the @media Directive
Ex. B: One Display for Various Media Using CSS2
XML Data Display: DHTML and CSS
Cascading Style Sheets
Ex. C: Inline Style
Ex. D: Declaring Style in the Style Element
Ex. E: Linked External Style Sheets
The Cascade in Cascading Style Sheets
DSO: Pulling Data into an HTML File Using an External XML Source
Ex. F1: Exploring Data Levels in an XML Source File Nodes and DOM
Ex. F2: Analyzing XML Nodes with JavaScript
PCDATA and CDATA
Ex. G: Writing HTML in XML, Using CDATA
XML Namespaces: XMLNS
XSL: XML Stylesheet Language
Ex. H: Displaying Repetitive XML Data Using XSL
Sorting XML Data Using XSL
Ex. I: Displaying XML Data in HTML, Using an XSL File to Query and Sort the Data
Ex. J: XSL Conditional Statements
A Resume of XSL Element Names
Ex. K: Displaying XML Data with the Data-driven Model
Home Exercise 1
XPath
Context and Syntax of XPath Patterns
Ex. L: XPath Axes
Document Validity
Document Type Declaration: DTD
The DTD: Occurrence Indicators
The DTD: Connectors
The DTD: Attribute Declarations
The DTD: Attribute Types
Ex. M: Validation with DTD and Microsoft XML Parser
Reverse DTD Generation
Ex. N: DTD Generation with PaulT
Schemas
Ex. O: An XML Schema
XSLT: XSL Transformation
Ex. P: Transforming XML into HTML
Ex. Q: Client-side XSLT Using JavaScript
Ex. R: Server-side XSLT Using Personal Web Server
Java and XML: The Java 2 Runtime Environment
Ex. S: Passive and Active Files
JRE and JDK
Installing Java
Installing Saxon
Ex. T: Converting XML to Database Using Java
XML and VBScript
Ex. U: XML and VBScript
XML and ASP
Ex. V: HTML to XML by JavaScript and on to ASP
XML Editors
XLink and XPointer
Ex. W: A Simple XLink
XHTML
Ex. X: Frames in XHTML
Ex. Y: XHTML and File Extensions
Ex. Z: XHTML and XML in the Browser
Home Exercise 2
Advanced Project: From Access to UNIX using XML (and back again)

Appendix A: Troubleshooting & Debugging
Appendix B: Document Object Model, the DOM
Appendix C: An XML Glossary
Appendix D: Unicode Character Reference
Appendix E: Useful Links