XML in a Nutshell

Chapter 1 Introducing XML
The Benefits of XML
What XML Is Not
Portable Data
How XML Works
The Evolution of XML
Chapter 2 XML Fundamentals
XML Documents and XML Files
Elements, Tags, and Character Data
Attributes
XML Names
References
CDATA Sections
Comments
Processing Instructions
The XML Declaration
Checking Documents for Well-Formedness
Chapter 3 Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
Validation
Element Declarations
Attribute Declarations
General Entity Declarations
External Parsed General Entities
External Unparsed Entities and Notations
Parameter Entities
Conditional Inclusion
Two DTD Examples
Locating Standard DTDs
Chapter 4 Namespaces
The Need for Namespaces
Namespace Syntax
How Parsers Handle Namespaces
Namespaces and DTDs
Chapter 5 Internationalization
Character-Set Metadata
The Encoding Declaration
Text Declarations
XML-Defined Character Sets
Unicode
ISO Character Sets
Platform-Dependent Character Sets
Converting Between Character Sets
The Default Character Set for XML Documents
Character References
xml:lang
Narrative-Like Documents
Chapter 6 XML as a Document Format
SGML's Legacy
Narrative Document Structures
TEI
DocBook
OpenOffice
WordprocessingML
Document Permanence
Transformation and Presentation
Chapter 7 XML on the Web
XHTML
Direct Display of XML in Browsers
Authoring Compound Documents with Modular XHTML
Prospects for Improved Web Search Methods
Chapter 8 XSL Transformations (XSLT)
An Example Input Document
xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform
Stylesheet Processors
Templates and Template Rules
Calculating the Value of an Element with xsl:value-of
Applying Templates with xsl:apply-templates
The Built-in Template Rules
Modes
Attribute Value Templates
XSLT and Namespaces
Other XSLT Elements
Chapter 9 XPath
The Tree Structure of an XML Document
Location Paths
Compound Location Paths
Predicates
Unabbreviated Location Paths
General XPath Expressions
XPath Functions
Chapter 10 XLinks
Simple Links
Link Behavior
Link Semantics
Extended Links
Linkbases
DTDs for XLinks
Base URIs
Chapter 11 XPointers
XPointers on URLs
XPointers in Links
Shorthand Pointers
Child Sequences
Namespaces
Points
Ranges
Chapter 12 XInclude
The include Element
Including Text Files
Content Negotiation
Fallbacks
XPointers
Chapter 13 Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
The Levels of CSS
CSS Syntax
Associating Stylesheets with XML Documents
Selectors
The Display Property
Pixels, Points, Picas, and Other Units of Length
Font Properties
Text Properties
Colors
Chapter 14 XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
XSL Formatting Objects
The Structure of an XSL-FO Document
Laying Out the Master Pages
XSL-FO Properties
Choosing Between CSS and XSL-FO
Chapter 15 Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL)
What's at the End of a Namespace URL?
RDDL Syntax
Natures
Purposes
Record-Like Documents
Chapter 16 XML as a Data Format
Why Use XML for Data?
Developing Record-Like XML Formats
Sharing Your XML Format
Chapter 17 XML Schemas
Overview
Schema Basics
Working with Namespaces
Complex Types
Empty Elements
Simple Content
Mixed Content
Allowing Any Content
Controlling Type Derivation
Chapter 18 Programming Models
Common XML Processing Models
Common XML Processing Issues
Generating XML Documents
Chapter 19 Document Object Model (DOM)
DOM Foundations
Structure of the DOM Core
Node and Other Generic Interfaces
Specific Node-Type Interfaces
The DOMImplementation Interface
DOM Level 3 Interfaces
Parsing a Document with DOM
A Simple DOM Application
Chapter 20 Simple API for XML (SAX)
The ContentHandler Interface
Features and Properties
Filters
Reference
Chapter 21 XML Reference
How to Use This Reference
Annotated Sample Documents
XML Syntax
Constraints
XML 1.0 Document Grammar
XML 1.1 Document Grammar
Chapter 22 Schemas Reference
The Schema Namespaces
Schema Elements
Built-in Types
Instance Document Attributes
Chapter 23 XPath Reference
The XPath Data Model
Data Types
Location Paths
Predicates
XPath Functions
Chapter 24 XSLT Reference
The XSLT Namespace
XSLT Elements
XSLT Functions
TrAX
Chapter 25 DOM Reference
Object Hierarchy
Object Reference
Chapter 26 SAX Reference
The org.xml.sax Package
The org.xml.sax.helpers Package
SAX Features and Properties
The org.xml.sax.ext Package
Chapter 27 Character Sets
Character Tables
HTML4 Entity Sets