January 2001
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
9h 10m
English
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- XHTML
XHTML is a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML application. The XHTML DTDs define elements and attributes as they are in HTML 4.01. See also HTML, hypertext, markup.
- XML declaration
The first element of a document prolog, declaring that the document is an XML document and the XML version it complies to. Most documents will have this XML declaration as their first line:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
- XLink (XML Linking Language)
Specifies elements that can be used in XML documents to create and describe links between resources. XLink provides for more robust linking relationships than do the simple hyperlinks in HTML.
- XML processor
A generic term for any program that takes an XML document as input and does something with it. A program that reads an XML document, parses it, and produces formatted output is an XML processor. See also parser.
- XML Schema
An alternative to DTDs for document modeling, schemas are written as XML, and like DTDs, define the elements, entities, and content model of documents. Schemas have many additional capabilities such as datatype control and content restrictions.
- XPath (XML path language)
A language used to address parts of an XML document. XPath locator syntax uses core functions based on the node hierarchy of a document, and evaluates expressions to determine a location object. XPath locations are used by XSLT and XPointer.
- XPointer (XML Pointer Language)
A special scheme, based on XPath, that identifies locations using special extensions to URLs. ...
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