XML in a Nutshell
By Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means


Following are the changes made in the 3/01 reprint.


Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


{30} In Example 3-3 an extra question mark moved into the XML
declaration:

<?xml version="1.0"? standalone="no"?>

has been changed to:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>


{35} The list under the Number of Children head now reads as
follows:

? Permits zero or one of the element
* Permits zero or more of the element
+ Permits one or more of the element


{43} In the each of the last two text paragraphs on the page, "the 
project_id attribute of the person element" now reads "the project_id 
attribute of the assignment element". Note that this error occurred 
twice.


[60] In the seventh line of Example 4-2, the end tag </dc:title>
now reads </title>. That is, the dc: prefix has been deleted.


(71) In the second text paragraph, "tet declarations" now reads "text 
declarations"


{79} The end tag was missing a slash in the second code fragment on the 
page. That is, in English transliteration, the second 
<logos> now reads </logos>


[79] In the first code sample, the nu is now the last letter of the 
second word rather than the first letter of the third word. That is, 
it now reads (in the actual Greek characters, not the Unicode shown here):

<maxim>
  &#x3C3;&#x3BF;&#x3C6;&#x3CC;&#x3C2; 
  &#x3AD;&#x3B1;&#x3C5;&#x3C4;&#x3CC;&#x3BD;
  &#x3B3;&#x3B9;&#x3B3;&#x3BD;&#x3CE;&#x3C3;&#x3BA;&#x3B5;&#x3B9;
</maxim>

In English transliteration "sophos eauton gignoskei" instead of 
"sophos eauto ngignoskei"


[130] The first sentence of the last paragraph had the wrong
namespace URI. It now reads http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform, not
http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform.


[187-188] The point node test now includes parentheses wherever it 
occurs, just as the comment(), processing-instruction() and node() node 
tests do. Thus, in the first sentence of the second-to-last paragraph on 
p. 187 "point node test" now reads "point() node test". The XPointer in the
middle of that paragraph now reads:

xpointer(//title[position()=1]/text()/point()[position()=3]). 

The XPointer at the bottom of the page now reads:

xpointer(/novel/point()[position()=2])

On p. 188, the XPointer near the top of the page now reads:

xpointer(/novel/text()[position()=1]/point()[position()=3])

(This XPointer also had an extraneous closing right parenthesis between 
[position()=1]/ and point()[ that has been deleted.)

The second and third XPointers on page 188 that use the start-point() and 
end-point()

xpointer(/comment()[position()=1]/point()[position()=5])

xpointer(/processing-instruction[position()=1]/point()[position()=23])

xpointer(/novel/@copyright/point()[position()=0])


(245) At the top of the page a space was missing between the first two 
words of the first sentence. It now reads "The character" rather than 
"Thecharacter". 


(295) Bacchus has been changed to Backus. The book meant to reference the
computer scientist John Backus, not the Greek god of wine and revelry.


(295-298) The Extended Backus-Naur Form has been replaced with
the following:

document ::= prolog element Misc*
Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD]
   | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
S ::= (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+
NameChar ::= Letter | Digit| '.' | '-' | '_' | ':'
   | CombiningChar | Extender
EntityValue ::= '"' ([^%&"] | PEReference| Reference)* '"'
   |  "'" ([^%&'] | PEReference | Reference)* "'"
CharData ::= [^<&]* - ([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*)
Comment ::= '<!--' ((Char - '-') | ('-'(Char - '-')))* '-->'
PI ::= '<?' PITarget (S(Char* - (Char* '?>' Char*)))? '?>'
CDSect ::= CDStart CData CDEnd
prolog ::= XMLDecl? Misc*(doctypedecl Misc*)?
XMLDecl ::= '<?xml' VersionInfo EncodingDecl? SDDecl? S? '?>'
VersionInfo ::= S 'version' Eq ("'" VersionNum "'"
   | '"' VersionNum'"')[E15]
Eq ::= S? '=' S?
VersionNum ::= ([a-zA-Z0-9_.:] | '-')+
Misc ::= Comment | PI| S
doctypedecl ::= '<!DOCTYPE' S Name(S ExternalID)? S?
   ('[' (markupdecl | DeclSep)*']' S?)? '>'
DeclSep ::= PEReference | S
markupdecl ::= elementdecl | AttlistDecl | EntityDecl
   | NotationDecl | PI | Comment
extSubset ::= TextDecl? extSubsetDecl
extSubsetDecl ::= ( markupdecl | conditionalSect | DeclSep)*
SDDecl ::= S 'standalone' Eq(("'" ('yes' | 'no') "'")
   | ('"' ('yes' | 'no') '"'))
LanguageID ::= Langcode ('-' Subcode)*
element ::= EmptyElemTag| STag content ETag
STag ::= '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '>'
Attribute ::= Name Eq AttValue
ETag ::= '</' Name S?'>'
content ::= CharData? ((element| Reference | CDSect| PI | Comment)
   CharData?)*
EmptyElemTag ::= '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '/>'
elementdecl ::= '<!ELEMENT' S Name S contentspec S?'>'
contentspec ::= 'EMPTY' | 'ANY' | Mixed| children
children ::= (choice | seq)('?' | '*' | '+')?
cp ::= (Name | choice| seq) ('?' | '*' | '+')?
choice ::= '(' S? cp ( S? '|' S? cp )+ S? ')'
seq ::= '(' S? cp ( S? ',' S? cp )* S? ')'
Mixed ::= '(' S? '#PCDATA' (S?'|' S? Name)* S?')*'
   | '(' S? '#PCDATA' S? ')'
AttlistDecl ::= '<!ATTLIST' S Name AttDef* S? '>'
AttType ::= StringType | TokenizedType| EnumeratedType
StringType ::= 'CDATA'
TokenizedType ::= 'ID'
EnumeratedType ::= NotationType| Enumeration
DefaultDecl ::= '#REQUIRED' | '#IMPLIED'| (('#FIXED' S)? AttValue)
conditionalSect ::= includeSect | ignoreSect
includeSect ::= '<![' S? 'INCLUDE' S? '[' extSubsetDecl']]>'
ignoreSect ::= '<![' S? 'IGNORE' S? '[' ignoreSectContents*']]>'
ignoreSectContents ::= Ignore ('<![' ignoreSectContents ']]>' Ignore)*
Ignore ::= Char* - (Char*('<![' | ']]>') Char*)
CharRef ::= '&#' [0-9]+ ';' | '&#x' [0-9a-fA-F]+ ';'
Reference ::= EntityRef | CharRef
EntityDecl ::= GEDecl | PEDecl
GEDecl ::= '<!ENTITY' S Name S EntityDef S?'>'
PEDecl ::= '<!ENTITY' S '%' S Name S PEDef S? '>'
EntityDef ::= EntityValue | (ExternalID NDataDecl?)
PEDef ::= EntityValue | ExternalID
ExternalID ::= 'SYSTEM' S SystemLiteral| 'PUBLIC' S PubidLiteral
   S SystemLiteral
TextDecl ::= '<?xml' VersionInfo? EncodingDecl S? '?>'
extParsedEnt ::= TextDecl? content
EncodingDecl ::= S 'encoding' Eq('"' EncName '"' | "'" EncName"'" )
NotationDecl ::= '<!NOTATION' S Name S (ExternalID | PublicID) S? '>'
Letter ::= BaseChar | Ideographic
BaseChar ::= [#x0041-#x005A] | [#x0061-#x007A] | [#x00C0-#x00D6]
   | [#x00D8-#x00F6] | [#x00F8-#x00FF] | [#x0100-#x0131] | [#x0134-#x013E]
   | [#x0141-#x0148] | [#x014A-#x017E] | [#x0180-#x01C3] | [#x01CD-#x01F0]
   | [#x01F4-#x01F5] | [#x01FA-#x0217] | [#x0250-#x02A8] | [#x02BB-#x02C1]
   | #x0386 | [#x0388-#x038A] | #x038C | [#x038E-#x03A1] | [#x03A3-#x03CE]
   | [#x03D0-#x03D6] | #x03DA | #x03DC| #x03DE | #x03E0 | [#x03E2-#x03F3]
   | [#x0401-#x040C] | [#x040E-#x044F] | [#x0451-#x045C] | [#x045E-#x0481]
   | [#x0490-#x04C4] | [#x04C7-#x04C8] | [#x04CB-#x04CC] | [#x04D0-#x04EB]
   | [#x04EE-#x04F5] | [#x04F8-#x04F9] | [#x0531-#x0556] | #x0559
   | [#x0561-#x0586] | [#x05D0-#x05EA] | [#x05F0-#x05F2] | [#x0621-#x063A]
   | [#x0641-#x064A] | [#x0671-#x06B7] | [#x06BA-#x06BE] | [#x06C0-#x06CE]
   | [#x06D0-#x06D3] | #x06D5 | [#x06E5-#x06E6] | [#x0905-#x0939] | #x093D
   | [#x0958-#x0961] | [#x0985-#x098C] | [#x098F-#x0990] | [#x0993-#x09A8]
   | [#x09AA-#x09B0] | #x09B2 | [#x09B6-#x09B9] | [#x09DC-#x09DD]
   | [#x09DF-#x09E1] | [#x09F0-#x09F1] | [#x0A05-#x0A0A] | [#x0A0F-#x0A10]
   | [#x0A13-#x0A28] | [#x0A2A-#x0A30] | [#x0A32-#x0A33] | [#x0A35-#x0A36]
   | [#x0A38-#x0A39] | [#x0A59-#x0A5C] | #x0A5E | [#x0A72-#x0A74]
   | [#x0A85-#x0A8B] | #x0A8D | [#x0A8F-#x0A91] | [#x0A93-#x0AA8]
   | [#x0AAA-#x0AB0] | [#x0AB2-#x0AB3] | [#x0AB5-#x0AB9] | #x0ABD
   | #x0AE0 | [#x0B05-#x0B0C] | [#x0B0F-#x0B10] | [#x0B13-#x0B28]
   | [#x0B2A-#x0B30] | [#x0B32-#x0B33] | [#x0B36-#x0B39] | #x0B3D
   | [#x0B5C-#x0B5D] | [#x0B5F-#x0B61] | [#x0B85-#x0B8A] | [#x0B8E-#x0B90]
   | [#x0B92-#x0B95] | [#x0B99-#x0B9A] | #x0B9C | [#x0B9E-#x0B9F]
   | [#x0BA3-#x0BA4] | [#x0BA8-#x0BAA] | [#x0BAE-#x0BB5] | [#x0BB7-#x0BB9]
   | [#x0C05-#x0C0C] | [#x0C0E-#x0C10] | [#x0C12-#x0C28] | [#x0C2A-#x0C33]
   | [#x0C35-#x0C39] | [#x0C60-#x0C61] | [#x0C85-#x0C8C] | [#x0C8E-#x0C90]
   | [#x0C92-#x0CA8] | [#x0CAA-#x0CB3] | [#x0CB5-#x0CB9] | #x0CDE
   | [#x0CE0-#x0CE1] | [#x0D05-#x0D0C] | [#x0D0E-#x0D10] | [#x0D12-#x0D28]
   | [#x0D2A-#x0D39] | [#x0D60-#x0D61] | [#x0E01-#x0E2E] | #x0E30
   | [#x0E32-#x0E33] | [#x0E40-#x0E45] | [#x0E81-#x0E82] | #x0E84
   | [#x0E87-#x0E88] | #x0E8A | #x0E8D | [#x0E94-#x0E97] | [#x0E99-#x0E9F]
   | [#x0EA1-#x0EA3] | #x0EA5 | #x0EA7| [#x0EAA-#x0EAB] | [#x0EAD-#x0EAE]
   | #x0EB0 | [#x0EB2-#x0EB3] | #x0EBD | [#x0EC0-#x0EC4] | [#x0F40-#x0F47]
   | [#x0F49-#x0F69] | [#x10A0-#x10C5] | [#x10D0-#x10F6] | #x1100
   | [#x1102-#x1103] | [#x1105-#x1107] | #x1109 | [#x110B-#x110C]
   | [#x110E-#x1112] | #x113C | #x113E | #x1140 | #x114C | #x114E | #x1150
   | [#x1154-#x1155] | #x1159 | [#x115F-#x1161] | #x1163| #x1165 | #x1167
   | #x1169 | [#x116D-#x116E] | [#x1172-#x1173] | #x1175 | #x119E | #x11A8
   | #x11AB | [#x11AE-#x11AF] | [#x11B7-#x11B8] | #x11BA | [#x11BC-#x11C2]
   | #x11EB| #x11F0 | #x11F9 | [#x1E00-#x1E9B] | [#x1EA0-#x1EF9]
   | [#x1F00-#x1F15] | [#x1F18-#x1F1D] | [#x1F20-#x1F45] | [#x1F48-#x1F4D]
   | [#x1F50-#x1F57] | #x1F59 | #x1F5B | #x1F5D | [#x1F5F-#x1F7D]
   | [#x1F80-#x1FB4] | [#x1FB6-#x1FBC] | #x1FBE | [#x1FC2-#x1FC4]
   | [#x1FC6-#x1FCC] | [#x1FD0-#x1FD3] | [#x1FD6-#x1FDB] | [#x1FE0-#x1FEC]
   | [#x1FF2-#x1FF4] | [#x1FF6-#x1FFC] | #x2126 | [#x212A-#x212B]
   | #x212E | [#x2180-#x2182] | [#x3041-#x3094] | [#x30A1-#x30FA]
   | [#x3105-#x312C] | [#xAC00-#xD7A3]
Ideographic ::= [#x4E00-#x9FA5] | #x3007 | [#x3021-#x3029]
CombiningChar ::= [#x0300-#x0345] | [#x0360-#x0361] | [#x0483-#x0486]
   | [#x0591-#x05A1] | [#x05A3-#x05B9] | [#x05BB-#x05BD] | #x05BF
   | [#x05C1-#x05C2] | #x05C4 | [#x064B-#x0652] | #x0670| [#x06D6-#x06DC]
   | [#x06DD-#x06DF] | [#x06E0-#x06E4] | [#x06E7-#x06E8] | [#x06EA-#x06ED]
   | [#x0901-#x0903] | #x093C | [#x093E-#x094C] | #x094D | [#x0951-#x0954]
   | [#x0962-#x0963] | [#x0981-#x0983] | #x09BC | #x09BE | #x09BF
   | [#x09C0-#x09C4] | [#x09C7-#x09C8] | [#x09CB-#x09CD] | #x09D7
   | [#x09E2-#x09E3] | #x0A02| #x0A3C | #x0A3E | #x0A3F | [#x0A40-#x0A42]
   | [#x0A47-#x0A48] | [#x0A4B-#x0A4D] | [#x0A70-#x0A71] | [#x0A81-#x0A83]
   | #x0ABC| [#x0ABE-#x0AC5] | [#x0AC7-#x0AC9] | [#x0ACB-#x0ACD]
   | [#x0B01-#x0B03] | #x0B3C | [#x0B3E-#x0B43] | [#x0B47-#x0B48]
   | [#x0B4B-#x0B4D] | [#x0B56-#x0B57] | [#x0B82-#x0B83] | [#x0BBE-#x0BC2]
   | [#x0BC6-#x0BC8] | [#x0BCA-#x0BCD] | #x0BD7 | [#x0C01-#x0C03]
   | [#x0C3E-#x0C44] | [#x0C46-#x0C48] | [#x0C4A-#x0C4D] | [#x0C55-#x0C56]
   | [#x0C82-#x0C83] | [#x0CBE-#x0CC4] | [#x0CC6-#x0CC8] | [#x0CCA-#x0CCD]
   | [#x0CD5-#x0CD6] | [#x0D02-#x0D03] | [#x0D3E-#x0D43] | [#x0D46-#x0D48]
   | [#x0D4A-#x0D4D] | #x0D57 | #x0E31 | [#x0E34-#x0E3A] | [#x0E47-#x0E4E]
   | #x0EB1 | [#x0EB4-#x0EB9] | [#x0EBB-#x0EBC] | [#x0EC8-#x0ECD]
   | [#x0F18-#x0F19] | #x0F35 | #x0F37 | #x0F39 | #x0F3E| #x0F3F
   | [#x0F71-#x0F84] | [#x0F86-#x0F8B] | [#x0F90-#x0F95] | #x0F97
   | [#x0F99-#x0FAD] | [#x0FB1-#x0FB7] | #x0FB9| [#x20D0-#x20DC] | #x20E1
   | [#x302A-#x302F] | #x3099| #x309A
Digit ::= [#x0030-#x0039] | [#x0660-#x0669] | [#x06F0-#x06F9]
   | [#x0966-#x096F] | [#x09E6-#x09EF] | [#x0A66-#x0A6F] | [#x0AE6-#x0AEF]
   | [#x0B66-#x0B6F] | [#x0BE7-#x0BEF] | [#x0C66-#x0C6F] | [#x0CE6-#x0CEF]
   | [#x0D66-#x0D6F] | [#x0E50-#x0E59] | [#x0ED0-#x0ED9] | [#x0F20-#x0F29]
Extender ::= #x00B7 | #x02D0 | #x02D1 | #x0387 | #x0640| #x0E46 | #x0EC6
   | #x3005 | [#x3031-#x3035] | [#x309D-#x309E] | [#x30FC-#x30FE]


{333} The select attribute of xsl:sort is optional, not required. 
The following sentence has been added to the end of the description of 
select:

If select is omitted, then the sort key is set to the value of the 
current node.