An Introduction to XML

Table of Contents

An Introduction to XML

Outline

References

Overview of HTML

Beyond HTML

What is XML?

Logical vs. Visual Design

What is SGML?

SGML Example

SGML Example (cont’d)

XML is SGML Lite

XML Design Goals

Origins of XML

“Hello World!” in XML

XML Language Elements

Document Type Definition

XML must be “well-formed”

XML Example

XML Example (cont’d)

XML Example (cont’d)

XML Example (cont’d)

XML tag structure

XML tag details

Syntactic details

Document Type Definition

Document Type Definition

DTD definitions

Document Type Definition

Document Type Definition

Element Declarations

Element Declarations

Element Declarations

Attributes

Attribute Types

Entities

XML Example - the DTD

XML Example - the XML document

Additional XML/DTD Topics

Extensible Style Language

Document Formatting (XSL)

Document Formatting (XSL)

XSL Processing Overview

Document Formatting (XSL)

Extensible Link Language

Uses of XML

Software Tools

Conclusions

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