December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
12h 26m
English
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Organization of This Book
- Chapter 1
This chapter explores XML validation, what schema languages do, and what makes RELAX NG unique.
- Chapter 2
This chapter introduces the background of RELAX NG itself and explores the notion of a pattern, the elementary building block on which the whole language is built.
- Chapter 3
This chapter builds, step by step, a first complete RELAX NG schema using XML syntax.
- Chapter 4
XML syntax is very useful, but it is also verbose. This chapter introduces an alternative, a compact (non-XML) syntax.
- Chapter 5
Chapter 3s schema followed the structure of an instance document to create what is called a Russian doll design. In this chapter, I show how named patterns can limit the depth of a schema, provide reusability, and mimic DTD structures.
- Chapter 6
Up to now, I’ve described only ordered sequences of elements. This chapter introduces new compositors for defining choices between patterns.
- Chapter 7
This chapter introduces the mechanisms that constrain text values and the two datatypes (string and token) built into RELAX NG.
- Chapter 8
This chapter describes external datatype libraries that may be used in RELAX NG schemas, and spends some time exploring the two datatype libraries that are most frequently used: the W3C XML Schema library and the DTD compatibility library.
- Chapter 9
This chapter explores one of the most powerful aspects of datatypes, the
patternfacet of the W3C XML Schema datatype library, and its particular flavor of regular expressions. ...
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