Xml for the World Wide Web : Visual Quickstart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)

Xml for the World Wide Web : Visual Quickstart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 270 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780201710984
  • DDC分類 005.72

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[There is a new edition of this bookQuickStart Guide by Kevin Howard Goldberg (ISBN: 0-321-55967-3)] Web-maven Elizabeth Castro, who has penned Peachpit books on HTML,Perl and CGI, and Netscape, now tackles XML--an indispensable tool for creating personalized, updated content for each visitor on your site. Whether you build Web pages for a living or you're taking on anew hobby, XML for the World Wide Web contains everything you need to create dynamic Web sites by writing XML code, developing custom XML applications with DTDs and schemas, transforming XML into personalized Web content through XSLT-based transformations, and professionally formatting XML documents with Cascading Style Sheets.The real power of XML lies in combining information from various sources and generating personalized content for different visitors.Castro's easy-to-follow graphics show exactly what XML looks like,and her real-world examples explain how to transform and streamline your Web-site creation process by automatically updating content.

Contents

Introduction. The Problem with HTML. The Power of XML. XML's Helpers. XML in the Real World. About This Book. What This Book Is Not. The XML VQS Website. I. XML. 1. Writing XML. Elements, Attributes, and Values. Rules for Writing XML. Declaring the XML Version. Creating the Root Element. Writing Non-Empty Elements. Nesting Elements. Adding Attributes. Using Empty Elements. Writing Comments. Writing Five Special Symbols. Displaying Elements as Text. II. DTDS. 2. Creating a DTD. Declaring an Internal DTD. Writing an External DTD. Naming an External DTD. Declaring a Personal External DTD. Declaring a Public External DTD. 3. Defining Elements and Attributes in a DTD. Defining Elements. Defining an Element to Contain Only Text. Defining an Element to Contain One Child. Defining an Element to Contain a Sequence. Defining Choices. Defining How Many Units. About Attributes. Defining Simple Attributes. Defining Attributes with Unique Values. Referencing Attributes with Unique Values. Restricting Attributes to Valid XML Names. 4. Entities and Notations in DTDs. Creating Shortcuts for Text. Using Shortcuts for Text. Shortcuts for Text in External Files. Creating and Using Shortcuts for DTDs. Creating Entities for Unparsed Content. Embedding Unparsed Content. III. XML SCHEMA AND NAMESPACES. 5. XML Schema. Simple and Complex Types. Local and Global Declarations. Beginning a Simple Schema. Indicating a Simple Schema's Location. Annotating Schemas. 6. Defining Simple Types. Declaring an Element with a Simple Type. Using Date and Time Types. Using Number Types. Deriving Custom Simple Types. Using Anonymous Custom Types. Specifying a Set of Acceptable Values. Specifying a Pattern for a Simple Type. Specifying a Range of Acceptable Values. Limiting the Length of a Simple Type. Limiting a Number's Digits. Creating List Types. Predefining an Element's Content. 7. Defining Complex Types. Defining Elements to Contain Only Elements. Requiring Elements to Appear in Sequence. Creating a Set of Choices. Allowing Elements to Appear in Any Order. Defining Named Groups. Referencing a Named Group. Referencing Already Defined Elements. Controlling How Many. Defining Elements to Contain Only Text. Defining Empty Elements. Defining Elements with Mixed Content. Basing Complex Types on Complex Types. Declaring an Element of Complex Type. Elements with Anonymous Complex Types. Declaring Attributes. Requiring an Attribute. Predefining an Attribute's Content. Defining Attribute Groups. Referencing Attribute Groups. 8. Using Namespaces in XML. Designing a Namespace Name. Declaring Default Namespaces. Namespaces for Individual Elements. How Namespaces Affect Attributes. Namespaces, DTDs, and Valid Documents. 9. Namespaces, Schemas, and Validation. Schemas and Namespaces. Populating a Namespace. Adding All Locally Declared Elements. Adding Particular Locally Declared Elements. Referencing Components with Namespaces. The Schema of Schemas as the Default. Namespaces and Validating XML. Indicating Where a Schema Is. Schemas in Multiple Files. Importing Components. IV. XSLT AND XPATH. 10. XSLT. Transforming XML with XSLT. Beginning an XSLT Style Sheet. Creating the Root Template. Outputting HTML Code. Outputting a Node's Content. Creating and Applying Template Rules. Batch-Processing Nodes. Processing Nodes Conditionally. Adding Conditional Choices. Sorting Nodes Before Processing. Generating Attributes. 11. XPath: Patterns and Expressions. Determining the Current Node. Referring to the Current Node. Selecting a Node's Children. Selecting a Node's Parent or Siblings. Selecting All of the Descendants. Disregarding the Current Node. Selecting a Node's Attributes. Selecting Subsets. 12. Test Expressions and Functions. Comparing Two Values. Testing the Position. Subtotaling Values. Counting Nodes. Multiplying, Dividing, Adding, Subtracting. Formatting Numbers. Rounding Numbers. Extracting Substrings. Capitalizing Strings. V. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 13. Setting up CSS. CSS with XML vs CSS with HTML. CSS1, CSS2, and Browsers. The Anatomy of a Style. Specifying Where Styles Are To Be Applied. Creating an External Style Sheet. Calling a Style Sheet for an XML Document. Calling a Style Sheet for an HTML Document. Using Internal Style Sheets. Applying Styles Locally. 14. Layout with CSS. Defining Elements as Block-Level or Inline. Hiding Elements Completely. Offsetting Elements In the Natural Flow. Positioning Elements Absolutely. Setting the Height or Width for an Element. Setting the Border. Adding Padding Around an Element. Setting the Margins around an Element. Wrapping Text around Elements. Stopping Text Wrap. Changing the Foreground Color. Changing the Background. Positioning Elements in 3D. Aligning Elements Vertically. Determining Where Overflow Should Go. Clipping an Element. Setting List Properties. Specifying Page Breaks. 15. Formatting Text with CSS. Choosing a Font Family. Embedding Fonts on a Page. Creating Italics. Applying Bold Formatting. Setting the Font Size. Setting the Line Height. Setting All Font Values at Once. Setting the Text Color. Changing the Text's Background. Controlling Spacing. Aligning Text. Underlining Text. Changing the Text Case. VI. XLINK AND XPOINTER. 16. Links and Images: XLink and XPointer. Creating a Simple Link. Creating a Linkset. Defining Reference Points. Defining Connections. Using a Linkset. Linking to Part of a File. Creating the Simplest XPointer. Creating Walking XPointers. Creating an XPointer Range. Appendix A: XHTML. How Does a Browser Know? Writing XHTML. Declaring a DTD for XHTML. Appendix B: XML Tools. Validating XML Files against a DTD. Validating XML with a Schema. Transforming XML with an XSLT Processor. Appendix C: Special Symbols. Using Character References. Table I: Characters. Table II: Symbols. Appendix D: Colors in Hex. Finding a Color's RGB Components-in Hex. Hexadecimal Equivalents. The Hexadecimal System. Index, Colophon, and Note. Index. Colophon and Note.