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XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means

September 2004

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2.2.1.1. Empty elements2.2.1.2. Case-sensitivity
2.2.2.1. Parents and children2.2.2.2. The root element
3.1.2.1. Public IDs
3.3.1.1. CDATA3.3.1.2. NMTOKEN3.3.1.3. NMTOKENS3.3.1.4. Enumeration3.3.1.5. ID3.3.1.6. IDREF3.3.1.7. IDREFS3.3.1.8. ENTITY3.3.1.9. ENTITIES3.3.1.10. NOTATION
7.1.3.1. The XML declaration and processing instructions7.1.3.2. Empty elements7.1.3.3. Entity references7.1.3.4. Other unsupported features
7.2.1.1. The required href and type pseudo-attributes7.2.1.2. The media pseudo-attribute7.2.1.3. The charset pseudo-attribute7.2.1.4. The alternate and title pseudo-attributes
10.4.2.1. Multiple arcs from one arc element10.4.2.2. Arc titles10.4.2.3. Arc roles
16.1.2.1. XML as a part of the Web: REST16.1.2.2. XML for procedure calls over HTTP: XML-RPC16.1.2.3. XML envelopes and messages: SOAP16.1.2.4. Other options: BEEP and XMPP
16.2.1.1. Where and how will new documents be created?16.2.1.2. How complex will the document be?16.2.1.3. How will documents be consumed?16.2.1.4. How widely will the resulting documents be distributed?16.2.1.5. Will others need to incorporate this document structure into their own applications?
16.2.2.1. XML vocabulary development
16.2.5.1. Will instance documents need to be validated using a DTD?16.2.5.2. Will markup from this application need to be embedded in other applications?16.2.5.3. Are there legacy XML document formats to support?
17.2.2.1. The xs:documentation element17.2.2.2. The xs:appinfo element
17.2.3.1. Simple types
17.2.4.1. Attribute groups
17.6.2.1. Handling whitespace17.6.2.2. Restricting length17.6.2.3. Enumerations17.6.2.4. Numeric facets17.6.2.4.1. Minimum and maximum values17.6.2.4.2. Length and precision17.6.2.5. Enforcing format17.6.2.6. Lists17.6.2.7. Unions
17.8.1.1. Including external declarations17.8.1.2. Modifying external declarations17.8.1.3. Importing schemas for other namespaces
17.8.2.1. Deriving by extension17.8.2.2. Deriving by restriction17.8.2.3. Using derived types
17.9.4.1. Forcing uniqueness17.9.4.2. Keys and references
19.4.1.1. DocumentType19.4.1.2. ProcessingInstruction19.4.1.3. Notation19.4.1.4. Entity
19.4.2.1. Document19.4.2.2. DocumentFragment19.4.2.3. Element19.4.2.4. Attr19.4.2.5. CharacterData19.4.2.6. Comment19.4.2.7. EntityReference19.4.2.8. Text19.4.2.9. CDATASection
19.6.1.1. NameList19.6.1.2. DOMImplementationList19.6.1.3. DOMImplementationSource19.6.1.4. TypeInfo19.6.1.5. UserDataHandler19.6.1.6. DOMError19.6.1.7. DOMErrorHandler19.6.1.8. DOMLocator19.6.1.9. DOMConfiguration
21.5.1.1. Document21.5.1.2. Character range21.5.1.3. Whitespace21.5.1.4. Names and tokens21.5.1.5. Literals21.5.1.6. Character data21.5.1.7. Comments21.5.1.8. Processing instructions21.5.1.9. CDATA sections21.5.1.10. Prolog21.5.1.11. Document type definition21.5.1.12. External subset21.5.1.13. Standalone document declaration21.5.1.14. Element21.5.1.15. Start-tag21.5.1.16. End-tag21.5.1.17. Content of elements21.5.1.18. Tags for empty elements21.5.1.19. Element type declaration21.5.1.20. Element-content models21.5.1.21. Mixed-content declaration21.5.1.22. Attribute-list declaration21.5.1.23. Attribute types21.5.1.24. Enumerated attribute types21.5.1.25. Attribute defaults21.5.1.26. Conditional section21.5.1.27. Character reference21.5.1.28. Entity reference21.5.1.29. Entity declaration21.5.1.30. External entity declaration21.5.1.31. Text declaration21.5.1.32. Well-formed external parsed entity21.5.1.33. Encoding declaration21.5.1.34. Notation declarations21.5.1.35. Characters
21.6.1.1. Document21.6.1.2. Character range21.6.1.3. Whitespace21.6.1.4. Names and tokens21.6.1.5. Literals21.6.1.6. Character data21.6.1.7. Comments21.6.1.8. Processing instructions21.6.1.9. CDATA sections21.6.1.10. Prolog21.6.1.11. Document type definition21.6.1.12. External subset21.6.1.13. Standalone document declaration21.6.1.14. Element21.6.1.15. Start-tag21.6.1.16. End-tag21.6.1.17. Content of elements21.6.1.18. Tags for empty elements21.6.1.19. Element type declaration21.6.1.20. Element-content models21.6.1.21. Mixed-content declaration21.6.1.22. Attribute-list declaration21.6.1.23. Attribute types21.6.1.24. Enumerated attribute types21.6.1.25. Attribute defaults21.6.1.26. Conditional section21.6.1.27. Character reference21.6.1.28. Entity reference21.6.1.29. Entity declaration21.6.1.30. External entity declaration21.6.1.31. Text declaration21.6.1.32. Well-formed external parsed entity21.6.1.33. Encoding declaration21.6.1.34. Notation declarations
27.1.2.1. C1 controls27.1.2.2. Latin-1

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Three DTDs for XHTML

XHTML comes in three flavors, depending on which DTD you choose:

Strict

This is the W3C’s recommended form of XHTML. This includes all the basic elements and attributes such as p and class. However, it does not include deprecated elements and attributes such as applet and center. It also forbids the use of presentational attributes such as the body element’s bgcolor, vlink, link, and text. These capabilities are provided by CSS instead. Strict XHTML is identified with this DOCTYPE declaration:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
                      "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" >

Example 7-2 uses this DTD.

Transitional

This is a looser form of XHTML for when you can’t easily do without deprecated elements and attributes, such as applet and bgcolor. It is identified with this DOCTYPE declaration:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
                      "DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" >

Frameset

This is the same as the transitional DTD except that it also allows frame-related elements, such as frameset and iframe. It is identified with this DOCTYPE declaration:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
                      "DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd" >

All three DTDs use the same http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace. You should choose the strict DTD unless you’ve got a specific reason to use another one.

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