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Errata for XML Pocket Reference

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page INDEX

Removed entry for xml:attribute attribute. Added p.22 to entry for
xml:attributes attribute.

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2000
Printed
Page 1
2nd paragraph

Sentence 3:
"... who started the W3C working group responsbile for ..."
now reads:
"... who started the W3C working group responsible for ..."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 5
Example 1. simple.xml

has been renamed:
Example 1. sample.xml

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 10
Line 4 from top

removed the extra "the" from
"and the the <OReilly:Price> ..."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 12
code

The lines

xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl/FO">
xmlns:OReilly="http://www.oreilly.com/">

now read

xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl/FO"
xmlns:OReilly="http://www.oreilly.com/">

Anonymous    Dec 01, 2000
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Page 16
under <!DOCTYPE>

[name] URI-of-DTD>
now reads:
["name"] "URI_of_DTD">

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 18
1st paragraph

Text did read:
"Note that you may not use entity references inside a CDATA
marked section, as they will not be expanded"
now reads:
"Note that entity references inside a CDATA marked section
will not be expanded."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 20
3rd paragraph of xml:lang

Change the path in the reference from

http://ds0.internic.net/rfc/rfc1766.txt

to

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/rfc/rfc1766.txt

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 22
under xml:attributes

Changed all instances of "xml: attribute" to "xml:attributes"

(4 occurrences)

1st sentence under Entity References now reads:
"Entity references are used as substitutions for specific
characters (or any string substitution) in XML."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 23
Last paragraph

3rd sentence did read:
"...adheres to the specifications outlined by its DTD"
now reads:
"...adheres to the XML specifications and the rules
outlined by its DTD"

4th sentence did read:
"...which adheres to the XML syntax rules"
now reads:
"...which adheres only to the XML syntax rules"

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
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Page 24
4th paragraph, 1st sentence

changed "both other tags" to "both other valid tags"

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 26

Added the following to end of the paragraph under "Multiple Elements"
that begins "This DTD states that either a <title> element..." and ends
with "...not considered valid":

"You can, however, use a recurrence operator to allow such an
element to appear more than once. Let's talk about that now."

 Anonymous    Feb 01, 2000
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Page 32
Table 3

Title of 1st column is now "Modifier"
Table 4:
Title of 1st column is now "Type"

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 33
ID and IDREF: would be useful to point out that IDs must

start with a letter, and can only contain (I believe) letters, digits,
underscore.

Insert the following sentence after "...as IDs and ID references."

"These types must start with a letter and can only contain
letters, digits, and underscores."

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 33
1st paragraph

Added the following to the end of the 1st sentence:

", although it must adhere to the same rules as the PCDATA tag."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 34
Last paragraph

1st sentence now reads:
"The attribute type ENTITY allows you to exploit..."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 50
last paragraph

The paragraph states that "The <xsl:number> element has three primary
attributes that can be set: count, level, and format." This line should read
"...four primary attributes that can be set: count, level, from, and format."
This is supported by the discussion of the "from" attribute on page 52.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 57
Code samples

<xsl:template match="section"/>
...
</xsl:template>

now reads:
<xsl:template match="section">
...
</xsl:template>

(2 occurrences)

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 70
<xsl:value-of>

In line 2 of description, <xsl:value> now reads <xsl:value-of>

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 83
Bottom of page

Deleted the following parenthetical comment:

"(In this case, that simply means the following paragraph)."

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000
Printed
Page 93
example at bottom of page

these sites
<references xml:link="extended" inline="true">

should be

<references xml:link="extended" inline="true">
these sites

(Swap the lines.)

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 94
2nd paragraph from bottom

"Links on the extended link element itself are:"
now reads:
"Attributes on the extended link element itself are:"

Last paragraph, line 3:
"ftrue" now reads "true"

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2000