The XML Companion

By: Neil Bradley

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Paperback | 30 November 2001 | Edition Number 3

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An in-depth reference guide to XML. While the XML standard itself has remained solidly at version 1.0, many important supporting standards have emerged, progressed or been ratified since the publication of the second edition of this manual. This text is revised to describe these supporting standards. Amendments have been made to approximately 250 pages of the second edition, with the inclusion of new standards adding a further 100 pages.

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Preface	p. v
Using this book	p. 1
Book structure	p. 1
Style conventions	p. 2
Editorial policies	p. 3
The XML standard
Elementary XML	p. 5
Introduction	p. 5
Text	p. 6
Markup	p. 6
XML documents	p. 8
Elements	p. 8
Document modelling	p. 14
Element hierarchies	p. 16
Attributes	p. 23
Uses of XML	p. 26
More document markup	p. 29
Introduction	p. 29
Reserved attributes	p. 30
Processing instructions	p. 31
XML declaration	p. 32
Markup declarations	p. 34
Document type declaration	p. 35
Character data sections	p. 36
Comments	p. 37
Syntax overview	p. 38
Physical structures (entities)	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
Entity references	p. 42
Built-in entity references	p. 43
Character entity references	p. 44
Declaring an entity	p. 45
Internal text entities	p. 46
External text entities	p. 48
Entities within entities	p. 50
Binary entities	p. 52
General entities	p. 53
Parameter entities	p. 54
Document type declaration	p. 56
Alternatives to entities	p. 57
Document type definitions (the DTD)	p. 59
Introduction	p. 59
Models	p. 60
Validating parsers	p. 62
DTD location	p. 63
DTD markup	p. 64
Element declarations	p. 66
Attribute declarations	p. 72
Parameter entities	p. 79
Conditional sections	p. 80
Notation declarations	p. 82
DTD processing issues	p. 83
Document modelling techniques	p. 87
Stages of development	p. 87
Document analysis	p. 89
Database schema analysis	p. 90
Future-use analysis	p. 91
Legally overlapping structures	p. 92
Appropriate names	p. 93
Element or attribute	p. 95
Other modelling tips	p. 98
Appropriate granularity	p. 100
Industry standard models	p. 100
Lists	p. 103
Table standards	p. 105
Architectural forms	p. 107
DTD writing tools	p. 111
DTD formatting	p. 112
Debugging the DTD	p. 114
Case study (quotations)	p. 115
Case study (this book)	p. 116
Hypertext links	p. 123
Background	p. 123
ID/IDREF	p. 125
Link value strategies	p. 127
Merging to publish	p. 128
Whitespace issues	p. 131
Whitespace	p. 131
Line-end normalization	p. 132
Whitespace in markup	p. 133
Element content space	p. 133
Preserved space	p. 134
Line ending interpretation	p. 136
Ambiguous space	p. 138
Extensions to XML
XML extensions	p. 145
Extension standards	p. 145
General extensions	p. 146
Significant XML domains	p. 148
Namespaces	p. 153
Compound documents	p. 153
Mixed model problems	p. 154
The standard	p. 155
Namespace identification	p. 156
Using namespaces	p. 157
Defaults	p. 159
DTD handling	p. 160
Examples of usage	p. 162
Relative URLs (XML Base)	p. 165
Background	p. 165
XML Base markup	p. 167
External entity declarations	p. 169
External entity content	p. 170
DTD declarations	p. 172
Composite documents (XInclude)	p. 173
Overview	p. 173
Identifying objects to include	p. 174
Recursive processing	p. 176
Inclusion markup	p. 177
Text inclusions	p. 178
Duplicate entity and notation declarations	p. 178
Including complete documents	p. 179
Contextual base URLs	p. 180
Namespace complications	p. 180
Illegal inclusions	p. 181
Document modelling	p. 182
Alternatives to XInclude	p. 183
XSLT implementation	p. 184
Navigation (XPath)	p. 185
Background	p. 185
Expressions	p. 187
Simple location paths	p. 189
Complex locations paths	p. 193
Patterns	p. 197
Predicate filters	p. 198
ID limitations	p. 207
Schemas	p. 209
DTD limitations	p. 209
Alternative modelling languages	p. 211
XML Schemas	p. 214
Element definitions	p. 216
Attributes	p. 224
Namespaces and schema references	p. 228
Including other models	p. 235
Efficiency shortcuts	p. 236
Advanced XML Schemas	p. 241
Introduction	p. 241
Default and fixed element values	p. 242
All groups	p. 243
Simple types with attributes	p. 246
Nil values	p. 246
Local element definitions	p. 248
Unique values	p. 250
Unique keys	p. 255
Data types	p. 257
Type library	p. 260
Simple type derivations	p. 261
Patterns	p. 271
Complex type derivations	p. 280
Selection from instance documents	p. 283
Constraining derivations	p. 283
Substitutions	p. 286
Re-defining external definitions	p. 288
Imports	p. 289
Processing and transforming XML
Processing XML data	p. 291
Writing XML	p. 291
Reading XML	p. 293
Event processing	p. 294
Tree manipulation	p. 296
Processing approach decisions	p. 299
Transformation tools	p. 301
Transformations (XSLT)	p. 303
Overview	p. 303
XSLT and XSL	p. 304
XSLT DTD	p. 305
General structure	p. 306
Templates	p. 306
Recursive processing	p. 307
Selective processing	p. 309
Priorities	p. 310
Output	p. 312
Whitespace	p. 317
Sorting elements	p. 318
Automatic numbering	p. 320
Modes	p. 323
Variables and named templates	p. 324
Using attribute values	p. 327
Creating and copying elements	p. 327
XML output headers	p. 331
Repeating structures	p. 331
Conditions	p. 333
Keys	p. 335
Messages	p. 337
Imports and inclusions	p. 338
Extended functions	p. 339
Number formatting	p. 341
Stylesheet DTD issues	p. 343
SAX 1.0	p. 345
Background	p. 345
Call-backs and interfaces	p. 346
Java Xerces implementation	p. 347
The parser	p. 348
Document handlers	p. 349
Attribute lists	p. 353
Error handlers	p. 355
SAX Parse exception	p. 356
Locators	p. 358
DTD handlers	p. 359
Input sources	p. 360
Entity resolvers	p. 361
Handler bases	p. 362
Helper classes	p. 363
SAX 2.0	p. 367
Changes from 1.0	p. 367
XML Reader	p. 369
Features	p. 370
Properties	p. 374
Namespace support	p. 375
ContentHandler	p. 376
Attributes	p. 379
Helper classes	p. 381
DOM Level 1	p. 385
Background	p. 385
Implementing a DOM	p. 386
Nodes	p. 387
Documents	p. 395
Document types	p. 398
Elements	p. 398
Attributes	p. 401
Character data	p. 403
Text	p. 405
Character data sections	p. 406
Comments	p. 407
Processing instructions	p. 407
Entities and notations	p. 408
Node lists	p. 411
Named node maps	p. 412
Document fragments	p. 415
DOM implementation	p. 415
DOM Level 2	p. 419
Namespace support	p. 419
Node extensions	p. 420
Document extensions	p. 423
Document type extensions	p. 426
Element extensions	p. 427
Attribute extensions	p. 430
Named node map extensions	p. 430
DOM implementation extensions	p. 431
Unchanged interfaces	p. 433
Iteration and tree-walking	p. 434
Ranges	p. 440
Formatting XML documents
Document formatting	p. 449
Presenting XML	p. 449
Style-oriented markup languages	p. 450
Formatting instructions	p. 451
Embedded styles	p. 452
Stylesheets	p. 453
Transformations	p. 455
DTD associations	p. 456
Stylesheet features	p. 457
Complex requirements	p. 459
Document layout categories	p. 461
Publishing from XML	p. 464
Stylesheet languages	p. 466
Formatting languages	p. 468
XSL or CSS	p. 469
Standard stylesheet references	p. 471
Implicit stylesheet references	p. 472
XHTML	p. 473
HTML	p. 473
Change of syntax	p. 474
Backward compatibility	p. 475
Flavours of XHTML	p. 476
Basic document structure	p. 477
Header elements	p. 478
Paragraphs	p. 480
Basic hypertext links	p. 480
Core attributes	p. 481
International attributes	p. 483
Headers and divisions	p. 484
Lists	p. 485
Font styles and phrases	p. 486
Formatted text	p. 487
Images and image zones	p. 488
Objects	p. 491
Tables	p. 493
Forms	p. 501
Descriptive markup	p. 506
Event trigger attributes	p. 507
Changes from HTML 4	p. 508
Cascading stylesheets (CSS1)	p. 511
Background	p. 511
Format overview	p. 512
Styling properties	p. 513
Colour and background properties	p. 516
Text style properties	p. 517
Boxes	p. 519
Display properties	p. 521
Simple element mapping	p. 522
Contextual rules	p. 523
Accessing and overriding styles	p. 525
XML specifics	p. 528
Batch composition to HTML	p. 532
HTML features	p. 533
Cascading stylesheets 2 (CSS2)	p. 537
Improvements	p. 537
Improved selection options	p. 537
Miscellaneous improvements	p. 540
Fonts and styles	p. 540
Boxes	p. 541
Lists	p. 543
Prefix and suffix generation	p. 543
Display options	p. 545
Tables	p. 549
Printed output	p. 549
User interface	p. 557
Aural styles	p. 558
Document management
Managing XML documents	p. 563
Introduction	p. 563
Simple file storage	p. 564
Free-text searching	p. 565
Maintaining document links	p. 566
Formal public identifiers	p. 566
XML Catalog format	p. 568
Classification	p. 573
Database management	p. 574
Basic document management	p. 574
Document component management	p. 575
Document disassembly techniques	p. 576
XML or SQL	p. 579
Document editing	p. 583
Extended links (XLink)	p. 589
Background	p. 589
Link markup	p. 592
Simple links	p. 594
Titles	p. 595
Roles	p. 596
Linking behaviour	p. 597
Simple link limitations	p. 600
Extended links	p. 601
Multiple titles	p. 603
More titles and roles	p. 604
Arcs	p. 605
Out-of-line links	p. 608
Advanced links (XPointer)	p. 611
Concepts	p. 611
XPointer	p. 612
Pointing to identifiers	p. 613
Fallbacks	p. 614
Location context	p. 615
Escaping characters	p. 616
Multiple targets	p. 617
Extension functions	p. 618
Points and ranges	p. 618
Relative links	p. 623
Targeting text strings	p. 624
Namespace issues	p. 626
Reference
Character sets	p. 629
Characters	p. 629
ASCII	p. 631
Text files	p. 633
Extended ASCII	p. 633
Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646	p. 635
Character sets summary	p. 639
Character set declarations	p. 639
Entities for characters	p. 641
XML language	p. 641
URLs	p. 643
URLs and URIs	p. 643
URL construction	p. 644
Protocols	p. 645
File and HTTP URLs	p. 645
Queries	p. 647
File paths	p. 647
Computer platform complications	p. 649
URL references	p. 650
Fragments	p. 653
Common errors	p. 654
URNs	p. 655
Past and future context	p. 657
Overview	p. 657
Markup	p. 658
SGML	p. 659
HTML	p. 659
XML	p. 660
The future	p. 662
SGML	p. 665
History and usage	p. 665
SGML Declaration	p. 665
DTD features	p. 668
Markup minimization techniques	p. 671
Converting to XML	p. 675
Charts and tables	p. 683
SAX 1.0 methods	p. 684
SAX 2.0 methods	p. 686
DOM methods	p. 688
XSLT elements and attributes	p. 691
CSS properties	p. 693
This book DTD	p. 699
ISO 8859/1 character set	p. 702
ISO 639 language codes	p. 708
ISO 3166 country codes	p. 710
HTML and XHTML elements and attributes	p. 713
XML road map	p. 725
Map formats	p. 725
Content lists	p. 728
Maps	p. 730
XPath road map	p. 755
Content lists	p. 755
Expression structure overview	p. 756
Expression tokens	p. 757
Maps	p. 758
Glossary	p. 769
Index	p. 823
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