Overview of XML

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Definition of XML

3. Design goals for XML

4. The case for XML

5. Differences with SGML

6. Usage of XML

7. XML Example

8. Components

9. Element

10. Attribute

11. Comment

12. Text

13. CDATA Section

14. Processing Instruction

15. Entity

16. Predefined Entities

17. Character References

18. XML Declaration

19. Character Encoding

20. DOCTYPE Declaration

21. Namespace Introduction

22. Default Namespaces Declaration

23. Prefixed Namespaces Declaration

24. Special Attributes

25. Mixed Content

26. XML Catalogs

27. Well-formed XML

28. Valid XML

29. Canonical XML

30. Overview

31. (Inclusive) Canonicalization

32. Exclusive Canonicalization

33. What's new in XML 1.1

34. XPath 1.0

35. Syntax

36. The Full Syntax

37. Axes

38. Nodes

39. Predicates

40. Node-Set Functions

41. String Functions

42. Boolean Functions

43. Number Functions

44. XPath 2.0

45. What's new?

46. XPointer

47. XInclude

48. XLink

49. Topics you should avoid when talking to an XML Head

50. People

51. Elliotte Rusty Harold

52. Norman Walsh

53. James Clark

54. Tim Bray

55. Jon Bosak

56. Conclusions

57. Conclusions

58. References

59. Q&A