Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More (The DevelopMentor Series)

This book is for anyone working with today's mainstream XML technologies. It was specifically designed to serve as a handy but thorough quick reference that answers the most common XML-related technical questions. It goes beyond the traditional pocket reference design by providing complete coverage of each topic along with plenty of meaningful examples. Each chapter provides a brief introduction, which is followed by the detailed reference information. This approach assumes the reader has a basic understanding of the given topic. The detailed outline (at the beginning), index (in the back), bleeding tabs (along the side), and the page headers/footers were designed to help readers quickly find answers to their questions. 1 Xml 1.0 And Namespaces 1 -- 1.1 Elements 1 -- 1.2 Elements, Namespaces, And Namespace Declarations 2 -- 1.3 Attributes 5 -- 1.4 Attributes And Namespaces 6 -- 1.5 Processing Instructions 6 -- 1.7 Whitespace 8 -- 1.8 Prohibited Character Literals 9 -- 1.9 Cdata Sections 11 -- 1.10 Xml Declaration 11 -- 1.11 Character References 13 -- 1.12 Well-formed Xml 13 -- 2 Document Type Definitions 15 -- 2.1 Introduction To Dtds 15 -- 2.2 Doctype 15 -- 2.3 Element 19 -- 2.4 Attlist 21 -- 2.5 Entity 24 -- 2.7 Include And Ignore 32 -- 3 Xpath 1.0 35 -- 3.1 Introduction To Xpath 35 -- 3.2 Location Path Expressions 39 -- 3.3 Basic Expressions 48 -- 3.4 Core Function Library 52 -- 4 Xpointer, Xinclude, And Xml Base 69 -- 4.1 Xpointer Version 1.0 69 -- 4.2 Xinclude 79 -- 4.3 Xml Base 81 -- 5 Xsl Transformations 1.0 85 -- 5.1 Introduction To Xslt Programming 86 -- 5.2 Xslt Types And Expressions 89 -- 5.3 Patterns 90 -- 5.4 Conflict Resolution 91 -- 5.5 Built-in Templates 92 -- 5.6 Exemplar-based Transformation Syntax 94 -- 5.7 Attribute Value Templates 94 -- 5.8 Whitespace 95 -- 5.9 Element Library 96 -- 5.10 Xslt Function Library 148 -- 6 Sax 2.0 159 -- 6.1 Sax Uml Quick Reference 159 -- 6.2 Sax Interfaces And Classes 161 -- 6.3 Features And Properties 190 -- 7 Dom Level 2 193 -- 7.1 Dom Uml 193 -- 7.2 Dom Interfaces 193 -- 8 Xml Schema Datatypes 227 -- 8.1 Datatype Grouping 227 -- 8.2 Datatypes 229 -- 8.3 Facets 267 -- 8.4 Language Constructs 280 -- 9 Xml Schema Structures 287 -- 9.1 Schema Element Groupings 287 -- 9.2 Structures 290 -- 9.3 Xml Schema Structures: Instance Attributes 350 -- 10 Soap 1.1 357 -- 10.1 Introduction To Soap Messages 357 -- 10.2 Elements In Soap Messages 358 -- 10.3 Attributes In Soap Messages 364 -- 10.4 Introduction To Soap Serialization Rules 367 -- 10.5 Introduction To The Soap Http Binding 381. Aaron Skonnard, Martin Gudgin. Includes Index. Essential XML Quick Reference is the most comprehensive and authoritative book available. Covering all of XML, as well as many related protocols and technologies, this book provides a handy, one-stop resource to XML syntax, usage, and programming techniques. Each chapter provides a topic overview, explanations of various elements, and several meaningful examples. A guide to mainstream XML technologies covers XML 1.0, namespaces, DTD, XPath, XPointer, Xinclude, XML Base, Xslt, SAX, DOM, XML Schema Datatypes, XML Schema Structures, and SOAP.