XBasics - An Introduction To All Things X

Table of Contents

1. About This Course

2. What You'll Learn

3. What You'll Remember

4. How We Do It

5. History: SGML, HTML and XML

6. In the Beginning was GML

7. Then ISO made it SGML

8. Then came the WWW and HTML

9. And Finally XML got it right...for now

10. HTML/XML Comparison

11. HTML Grows up: XHTML

12. Online Validation: The W3C Validator

13. Advantages of XML over proprietary binaries

14. Typical usage scenarios

15. Single-sourcing

16. Non-typical usage scenarios

17. Graphics as XML: Meet SVG

18. Practical XML

19. Elements

20. Attributes

21. When To Use Elements or Attributes?

22. Comments

23. Processing Instructions

24. Namespaces

25. Document Structure

26. Example: Recipe

27. The raw recipe in a browser

28. Styling XML with CSS

29. Basic XSLT

30. Transformation, Not Styling

31. xsl:template

32. xsl:apply-templates

33. Stylesheet Structure

34. Writing a Stylesheet For The Recipe

35. Browsers can do XSLT

36. Limitations in browser based XSLT

37. Full Roundtrip: From XML via XSL to XHTML with CSS

38. From Doctypes to Schemas

39. Why do we need document descriptions?

40. A DTD for our recipe

41. Why move from doctypes to schemas?

42. An XML Schema for our recipe

43. Schema Alternatives

44. Adding doctype and schema to documents

45. Tools

46. How tools use doctypes and schemas

47. Catalog files

48. Content repositories

49. Freedom of choice

50. Advanced XSLT

51. First: A better recipe description

52. Processing the better recipe

53. Selective processing: XPath

54. Axis

55. Dynamic XSLT: Functions

56. Named templates

57. xsl:call-template

58. Re-using style sheets: xsl:import

59. Passing parameters to templates

60. Conditionals

61. An aggregate example

62. Conditional Text with XSLT

63. Modular Authoring: Entities

64. Modular Authoring: XInclude

65. Extending the recipe to a Cookbook

66. Using modules in the Cookbook

67. Processing the cookbook

68. Content Generation

69. EXSLT

70. Chunking Output

71. Pragmatic XSLT

72. Modular style sheets

73. Choosing the right tools

74. Related Technologies

75. XSL-FO

76. XQuery

77. Schematron

78. Web Services

79. Wrap-up

80. Sanity Check