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An Introduction to XML

Overview of XML and its relationship to HTML and SGML

XML extensible tags: DTD

Some simple examples

XSL and XLL

XML tools

Details on writing XML

Example showing the use of XML to store a simple database

Table of Contents for An Introduction to XML

001 An Introduction to XML
002 Outline
003 References
004 Overview of HTML
005 Beyond HTML
006 What is XML?
007 Logical vs. Visual Design
008 What is SGML?
009 SGML Example
010 SGML Example (cont'd)
011 XML is SGML Lite
012 XML Design Goals
013 Origins of XML
014 "Hello World!" in XML
015 XML Language Elements
016 Document Type Definition
017 XML must be "well-formed"
018 XML Example
019 XML Example (cont'd)
020 XML Example (cont'd)
021 XML Example (cont'd)
022 XML tag structure
023 XML tag details
024 Syntactic details
025 Document Type Definition
026 Document Type Definition
027 DTD definitions
028 Document Type Definition
029 Document Type Definition
030 Element Declarations
031 Element Declarations
032 Element Declarations
033 Attributes
034 Attribute Types
035 Entities
036 XML Example - the DTD
037 XML Example - the XML document
038 Additional XML/DTD Topics
039 Extensible Style Language
040 Document Formatting (XSL)
041 Document Formatting (XSL)
042 XSL Processing Overview
043 Document Formatting (XSL)
044 Extensible Link Language
045 Uses of XML
046 Software Tools
047 Conclusions