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By W. Scott Means, Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Symbols[ Top ]
* asterisk
CSS universal selector, 197
node test, 304
suffix for element names, 35, 291
XPath arithmetic operator, 161
XPath wildcard, 154
@ at sign (selecting an attribute), 152, 302
@* at-sign asterisk (XPath wildcard), 154
: colon (use within names), 280
: : double colon (axis-node test separator), 158, 301
/ / double forward slash (selecting from all descendants), 156
. . double period (selecting parent element), 156, 302
= equals sign (CSS attribute value selector), 197
/ forward slash
building compound location paths, 155, 302
root location path, 150, 301
> greater-than sign (CSS child element selector), 197
< less-than sign (not allowed in attribute values), 271
- minus sign (XPath arithmetic operator), 161
( ) parentheses in element declarations, 36
. period (selecting current element), 156, 302
+ plus sign
CSS sibling element selector, 197
suffix for element names, 35, 291
XPath arithmetic operator, 161
? question mark (suffix for element names), 35, 291
# sharp sign (CSS attribute selector), 198
[ ] square brackets (CSS attribute selector), 197
~ = tilde equals sign (CSS attribute selector), 197
| vertical bar (multiple XPath matches), 155
| = vertical bar equals sign (CSS attribute selector), 198
A[ Top ]
abbreviated location paths, 150-158, 301-304
absolute location paths, 150, 302
building compound location paths, 156
id( ) and, 165
absolute units of length (CSS properties), 202
active pseudo-class, 198
actuate attribute (see xlink:actuate attribute)
Adapter design pattern, 410, 412
Adobe Zapf Dingbats font, Unicode block for, 456
after pseudo-element, 199
alternate pseudo-attribute, 107, 196
& (ampersand) entity reference, 18, 46
declaring, 279
HTML 4.0 entity sets and, 424
XML specification for, 281
ancestor axis, 158, 303
ancestor-or-self axis, 159, 303
ANY element type, 38, 267, 290
Apache XML Project
Cocoon (XSLT processor), 132
FOP (formatting program), 216
Xalan (XSLT processor), 132
Xerces-J (parser), 24
APL programming language symbols, Unicode block for, 453
' (apostrophe) entity reference, 18, 46
declaring, 279
HTML 4.0 entity sets and, 424
XML specification for, 281
appendChild( ) (DOM), 393
appendData( ) (DOM), 350
Apple Computer and character sets, 75
applet module (XHTML DTD), 110
apply-imports element (see xsl:apply-imports element)
apply-templates element (see xsl:apply-templates element)
Arabic Unicode block, 441
arcrole attribute (see xlink:arcrole attribute)
arcs, 175-179
multiple arcs from one arc element, 176-178
role attributes, 178
title attributes, 178
arithmetic operators in XPath, 161
Armenian Unicode block, 439
Arrows Unicode block, 451
ASCII character set, 420
<!ATTLIST> declaration, 39-46
ATTLIST declaration, 39-46
XML specification for, 267, 291
xml:lang attribute and, 82
xmlns attribute and, 66
Attr interface (DOM), 244, 347
attributes for, 347
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 390
object hierarchy, 346
attribute axis, 158, 304
attribute declarations, 39-46
xmlns attribute and, 66
attribute defaults, 45
default value clauses for, 292
normal attribute values and, 278
attribute element (see xsl:attribute element)
attribute nodes
default template for, 139
XPath data model and, 299
attribute types, 39-45
enumeration, 41, 292
vs. NOTATION, 45
NOTATION, 292
simple, 267, 291
attribute value templates, 144
attribute values
ensuring validity of, 274
external entities and, 271
no < allowed in, 271
ATTRIBUTE_NODE (DOM node type), 238
importNode( ) and, 363
nodeType attribute and, 390
attributes
accessing, 401
default namespaces and, 65
location steps, 152, 302
matching multiple, 155
notation, 277
selecting, 197
special, 267, 293
unique names for, 271
vs. child elements, 16
in XML declarations, 21-23
XML elements and, 15-17, 347
XML specification for, 268, 295
attributes attribute (Node interface), 387
Attributes interface (SAX), 400
attribute-set element (see xsl:attribute-set element)
AttributesImpl class (SAX), 407
axes, 158, 301-304
B[ Top ]
background-color property (CSS), 205
Backus-Naur-Form (BNF) grammar, 341
bare name XPointers, 185
base module (XHTML DTD), 111
basic forms module (XHTML DTD), 110
basic tables module (XHTML DTD), 110
before pseudo-element, 199
bidirectional text module (XHTML DTD), 110
big-endian UCS-2, 72
biztalk.org (DTD repository), 56
block areas (XSL-FO), 208
flowing content into pages, 213
splitting, 209
block elements
CSS display property, 200
(see also fo:block elements)
block-container element (see fo:block-container element)
%Block.extra; parameter entity reference, 115
%Block.mix; entity reference, 113
BNF (Backus-Naur-Form) grammar, 341
boolean( ) (XPath), 167, 306
Booleans
used by SAX features, 259
XPath expressions, 162, 300
XPath functions, 167
border-color property (CSS), 205
border-width property (CSS), 201
Bosak, Jon, 9
Bray, Tim, 9
Brown University Scholarly Technology Group, 32
browsers (see web browsers)
built-in template rules, 132, 138-141
byte order mark, 73
C[ Top ]
C++ and XML parsers, 231
C programming language and XML parsers, 231
C0 controls in ASCII character sets, 421
C1 controls in ISO-8859 character sets, 422
call-template element (see xsl:call-template element)
Canonical XML, 10
Cascading Stylesheets (CSS), 97, 191-205
color properties, 204
display property, 200-201
font properties, 202
selectors, 197-200
style rules for, 195
syntax of, 193-195
text properties, 203
vs. XSL-FO, 221
web browser support for, 221
XML documents and, 195
(see also stylesheets)
Cascading Stylesheets Level 1 (CSS1), 106, 193
Cascading Stylesheets Level 2 (CSS2), 106, 193
web browser support for, 221
Cascading Stylesheets Level 3 (CSS3), 193
web support for, 221
case sensitivity in elements, 12
CDATA attribute type, 40, 291
CDATA sections, 19
LexicalHandler interface and, 415
XML specification for, 268, 281
(see also character data)
CDATASection interface (DOM), 245, 348
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 391
object hierarchy, 346
CDATA_SECTION_NODE (DOM node type), 238
importNode( ) and, 364
nodeType attribute and, 390
CDF (Channel Definition Framework), xiii
ceiling( ) (XPath), 167, 306
character data, 12-15
comments in, 20
parsed, 18
(see also CDATA entries)
character data characters (Unicode), 419
character encodings, 69
auto-detection of, 284
character references, 78-81
for HTML 4.0 entity sets, 425-432
predefined, 269, 281
XML specification for, 267, 271, 280
character sets, 69, 417-458
ASCII, 420
converting between, 76
Cp1252, 422
ISO, 74
names of, 417-419
national standard, 75
platform-dependent, 75
Unicode, 72-74
XML document default, 77
XML-defined, 71
character tables for Unicode, 419-424
CharacterData interface (DOM), 349-354
attributes for, 349
methods for, 350-354
characters( ) (SAX), 253-256
charset pseudo-attribute, 107, 196
child axis, 158, 303
child elements, 13, 34
determining the number of, 35
location steps, 151, 302
in narrative-oriented documents, 87
vs. attributes, 16
childNodes attribute (Node interface), 387
Chinese characters
using subcodes for dialects, 82
UTF-8/UTF-16 encodings, 73, 417
choices in element declarations, 36
choose element (see xsl:choose element)
Clark, James, 9, 231, 419
client-side image map module (XHTML DTD), 111
cloneNode( ) (DOM), 393
CML (Chemical Markup Language), xii
Cocoon (Apache XML Project XSLT processor), 132
code points, 69
unassigned, 419
code samples and CDATA sections, 19
color property (CSS), 204
COM-based parser and XML, 232
command-line XSLT processors, 132
comment element (see xsl:comment element)
Comment interface (DOM), 244, 354
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 391
object hierarchy, 346
comment nodes
default template for, 141
XPath data model and, 300
comment( )
location step, 153
node test, 304
COMMENT_NODE (DOM node type), 239
importNode( ) and, 364
nodeType attribute and, 390
comments
IGNORE directive acting as, 53
in XML documents, 20
XML specification for, 234, 268, 283
communications protocols and XML, 226
comparison operators in XPath, 162
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, 231
concat( ) (XPath), 164, 306
conditional sections, 267, 294
parameter entity nesting and, 278
constrained child nodes, 267, 291
constraints
validity, 273-279
well-formedness, 266-273
container nodes, 186-188
contains( ) (XPath), 166, 306
content models in element declarations, 34
content nodes (DOM Core), 241-245
ContentHandler interface (SAX), 252-259, 401
methods called by parser, 253-256
overriding methods in, 258
vs. java.net.ContentHandler class, 252
context node, 302
attribute location steps and, 152
child element location steps and, 151
compound location paths and, 155
unabbreviated location paths and, 158
Coptic Unicode block, 436
copy element (see xsl:copy element)
copy-of element (see xsl:copy-of element)
count( ) (XPath), 164, 307
Cover, Robin, 57
Cp1252 character set, 76, 422
createAttribute( ) (DOM), 356
createAttributeNS( ) (DOM), 356
createCDATASection( ) (DOM), 357
createComment( ) (DOM), 358
createDocument( ) (DOM), 370
createDocumentFragment( ) (DOM), 358
createDocumentType( ) (DOM), 371
createElement( ) (DOM), 358
createElementNS( ) (DOM), 359
createEntityReference( ) (DOM), 360
createProcessingInstruction( ) (DOM), 360
createTextNode( ) (DOM), 361
createXMLReader( ) (SAX), 251, 413
CSS (see Cascading Stylesheets)
CSS1 (Cascading Stylesheets Level 1), 106, 193
CSS2 (Cascading Stylesheets Level 2), 106, 193
web browser support for, 221
CSS3 (Cascading Stylesheets Level 3), 193
web support for, 221
Currency Symbols Unicode block, 450
current( ) (XSLT), 340
Cyrillic Unicode block, 437-439
D[ Top ]
data attribute
CharacterData interface, 349
ProcessingInstruction interface, 398
data format, XML (see XML, data format)
data storage/retrieval and XML, 227
databases and XML, 5, 227
data-oriented DTDs, 54
decimal character references, 78
decimal format patterns, 322, 341
decimal-format element (see xsl:decimal-format element)
declarations
attribute, 39-46
commenting out, 53
DeclHandler interface and, 415
default, 45, 278, 292
document type, 29-31
element (see element declarations)
element type (see element type declarations)
encoding, 69, 268, 285
general entity, 46, 267, 287
notation, 269, 293
names must be unique, 279
unparsed entities and, 279
standalone, 268, 285
text (see text declarations)
DeclHandler interface (SAX), 415
default declarations for attributes, 45
in element type declarations, 292
XML specification for, 278
default namespaces, setting, 65
default templates for XML document nodes, 139-141
default values, XML specification for, 267, 292
DefaultHandler class (SAX), 258, 408
deleteData( ) (DOM), 351
descendant axis, 158, 303
descendant-or-self axis, 159, 303
Devanagari Unicode block, 443
DHTML and XML, 227
Dingbats Unicode block, 456
display property (CSS), 200-201
div (XPath arithmetic operator), 161
DocBook, 91-94
DocmentType interface (DOM) and nodeValue attribute, 391
doctype attribute (Document interface), 355
<!DOCTYPE> declaration, 29, 273
document element (see root element)
Document interface (DOM), 241, 354-364
attributes for, 355
methods for, 356-364
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 391
object hierarchy, 346
Document Object Model (see DOM)
Document Style Sheet and Semantics Language (DSSSL), 9, 97
document type declaration, 29-31, 273
document type definitions (see DTDs)
document( ) (XSLT), 340
documentElement attribute (Document interface), 355
DocumentFragment interface (DOM), 243, 364
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 391
object hierarchy, 346
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE (DOM node type), 239
importNode( ) and, 363
nodeType attribute and, 390
DOCUMENT_NODE (DOM node type), 239
importNode( ) and, 363
nodeType attribute and, 390
documents, XML (see XML, documents)
DocumentType interface (DOM), 240, 365-367
nodeName attribute and, 389
object hierarchy, 346
properties for, 366-367
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE (DOM node type), 239
importNode( ) and, 363
nodeType attribute and, 390
DOM Core, 237, 345
node types, 240-245
DOM (Document Object Model), xii, 229, 236-249
document structure, 239
IDL (Interface Definition Language) notation and, 236
Level 1 vs. Level 2, 345
memory usage, 237
Node interface, 238, 345
non-standard extensions for, 232
object hierarchy, 237, 346
parsing a document with, 238
processing instructions and, 233
reference, 345-399
sample application, 245-249
vs. SAX, 230
DOM Level 1 (see DOM)
DOM Level 2, 236
DOMImplementation interface, 245
importNode method provided by, 242
vs. Level 1, 345
DOMException interface, 368-369
DOMImplementation interface, 241, 245, 370-372
methods for, 370-372
DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR exception, 368
DSSSL (Document Style Sheet and Semantics Language), 9, 97
DTDHandler interface (SAX), 402
DTDs, 4, 26-57
attribute declarations, 39-46
data-oriented, 54
defining general entity references, 79
document permanence and, 95
element declarations, 34-39
enforcement rules, 228
external subsets (see external DTD subsets)
finding standard, 56
general entities, 48-51
general entity declarations, 46
internal subsets (see internal DTD subsets)
namespaces and, 67
narrative-oriented, 55, 86-88
parameter entities, 51-53
repository of, 57
specifying rules using, 7
standalone attribute and, 23
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), 88-91
validating XML documents, 26-33
for XHTML, 104
for XLinks, 181
XML specification for, 285-294
Dublin Core, 125-128
E[ Top ]
EBNF (Extended Bacchus-Naur Form) grammar, 295
edit module (XHTML DTD), 110
electronics symbols, Unicode block for, 453
<!ELEMENT> declaration, 34-39
ELEMENT declaration, 34-39
element declarations, 28, 34-39
constructing, 275
matching elements with DTD rules, 274
element element (see xsl:element element)
Element interface (DOM), 243, 372-380
attribute for, 373
methods for, 373-380
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 390
object hierarchy, 346
element names
matching, 270
in namespaces and DTDs, 67
prefixes and, 61
suffixes for, 35
using choices in, 36
using namespaces to resolve conflicts, 58-61
element nodes
default template for, 141
XPath data model and, 299
element type declarations
duplicates types not allowed, 275
uniqueness required for, 275
XML specification for, 267, 290-293
element-available( ) (XSLT), 340
ELEMENT_NODE (DOM node type), 238
importNode( ) and, 363
nodeType attribute and, 390
elements
attributes and, 15-17, 347
calculating the value of, 134
case sensitivity in, 12
documents and, 12
empty (see empty elements)
entity references in, 18
location steps, 151, 301
matching multiple, 155
matching names, 270
mixed content of, 14
in narrative-oriented documents, 87
overlapping not allowed, 13
XML specification for, 294
empty elements, 12
in element declarations, 38, 290
NOTATION attributes unavailable, 277
web browser problems with, 105
XML specification for, 268, 295
encoding declaration, 22, 69
XML specification for, 268, 285
encodings, list of, 71
end tags, 12
XML specification for, 268, 294
endDocument( ) (SAX), 256
endElement( ) (SAX), 254-256
ending resources, 169
end-point( ), 188
endPrefixMapping( ) (SAX), 255
enterprise applications and XML, 226
entities
external parsed, 48
SAX core feature, 414
text declarations and, 70
external unparsed, 49-51
declaring notations, 279
XML specification for, 268, 288
parameter (see parameter entity references)
entities attribute (DocumentType interface), 366
ENTITIES attribute type, 45, 292
ENTITY attribute type, 44, 292
embedding unparsed entities in documents, 50
unparsed entities in DTD and, 276
<!ENTITY> declaration, 47-49, 281
ENTITY declaration, 47-49, 281
absent from entity references, 271
Entity interface (DOM), 241, 380
attributes for, 380
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 391
object hierarchy, 346
entity references, 18, 46
attribute values and external entities, 271
LexicalHandler interface and, 415
simplifying document parsing, 282
unparsed entity names not allowed, 272
web browser problems with, 105
with no entity declarations, 271
XHTML 1.1 DTD, 112
XML parsers and, 234
XML specification for, 282
(see also general entity references; parameter entity references)
entity sets
HTML 4.0, 424-432
XHTML 1.0 DTD, 80, 424
ENTITY_NODE (DOM node type), 239
importNode( ) and, 363
nodeType attribute and, 390
EntityReference interface (DOM), 244, 382
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 391
object hierarchy, 346
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE (DOM node type), 239
importNode( ) and, 364
nodeType attribute and, 390
EntityResolver interface (SAX), 402
enumeration attribute type, 41, 267, 292
assigning a value to, 278
vs. NOTATION attribute type, 45
ErrorHandler interface (SAX), 403
errors
ErrorHandler interface (SAX) and, 403
SAXException class and, 405-407
validity, 7, 26, 32
well-formedness, 7, 23-25, 26
escape sequences, 18
EUC_JP encoding, 71, 419
event-driven models, 230, 250
ExceptionCodes (DOM), 368-369
exceptions (see errors)
expat parser
C programming language support, 231
support for character encodings, 419
Extended Bacchus-Naur Form (EBNF) grammar, 295
Extended Interfaces (DOM Core), 237
extended links, 173-180
arc elements, 175-179
local resources, 179
locator elements, 174
title elements, 179
XPointers and, 184
Extensible Linking Language (XLL), 9
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (see XSLT)
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), 9
extent attributes (XSL-FO), 212
external DTD subsets, 31
general entity references and, 80
parameter entity references and, 52
text declarations and, 71
XML specification for, 267, 270, 289
external general entities, 268, 287
parsed, 48
attribute values and, 271
no recursion allowed, 272
SAX core feature, 414
text declarations and, 70
unparsed, 49-51, 288
declaring notations, 279
external parameter entity references, 53
SAX core feature, 414
F[ Top ]
fallback element (see xsl:fallback element)
false( ) (XPath), 167, 307
Feynman, Richard, 129-146, 148, 151, 157, 159, 165
firstChild attribute (Node interface), 387
first-child pseudo-class, 198
first-letter pseudo-element, 199
first-line pseudo-element, 199
#FIXED default declaration, 45, 293
explicit value must match default value, 278
floor( ) (XPath), 167, 307
flow child element (see fo:flow child element)
%Flow.mix; entity reference, 113
fo:block elements, 209, 213
fo:block-container element, 213
focus pseudo-class, 199
fo:flow child element, 212
fo:layout-master-set element, 210, 212
fo:list-block element, 213
following axis, 159, 303
following-sibling axis, 159, 303
font properties (CSS), 202
font-family property (CSS), 202
font-size property (CSS), 201
font-stretch property (CSS), 203
font-style property (CSS), 203
font-variant property (CSS), 203
font-weight property (CSS), 203
FOP (Apache XML Project formatting program), 216
fo:page-sequence element, 210
flowing content into pages, 212
for-each element (see xsl:for-each element)
fo:region-after child element, 211
fo:region-before child element, 211
fo:region-body child element, 211
fo:region-end child element, 211
fo:region-start child element, 211
format-number( ) (XSLT), 322, 341
formatting objects (see XSL-FO)
forms module (XHTML DTD), 110
fo:root element, 209
fo:simple-page-master element, 210-212
fo:table element, 213
fo:table-and-caption element, 213
fragment identifiers, 183
frames module (XHTML DTD), 111
frameset DTD (XHTML), 104
from attribute (see xlink:from attribute)
function-available( ) (XSLT), 342
functions
XPath, 163-167, 305-314
XSLT, 339-344
Fundamental Interfaces (DOM Core), 237
G[ Top ]
Galazka, Wojciech, 77
general entities
external parsed, 48
attribute values and, 271
no recursion allowed, 272
SAX core feature, 414
text declarations and, 70
XML specification for, 268, 287
external unparsed, 49-51, 288
declaring notations, 279
internal, 267, 287
general entity declarations, 267, 287
declaring, 279
general entity references
XML specification for, 268, 282, 288
(see also entity references)
General Punctuation Unicode block, 449
generate-id( ) (XSLT), 342
Geometric Shapes Unicode block, 455
getAttribute( ) (DOM), 373
getAttributeNode( ) (DOM), 374
getAttributeNodeNS( ) (DOM), 374
getAttributeNS( ) (DOM), 373
getElementById( ) (DOM), 242, 361
getElementsByTagName( ) (DOM), 242
Document interface, 362
Element interface, 375
getElementsByTagNameNS( ) (DOM), 242
Document interface, 362
Element interface, 375
getException( ) (SAX), 405
getFeature( ) (SAX), 260
getNamedItem( ) (DOM), 383
getNamedItemNS( ) (DOM), 383
getProperty( ) (SAX), 260
glyph areas (XSL-FO), 208
Goldfarb, Charles, 8, 85
grammar for XML documents, 295
Greek Extended Unicode block, 447-449
Greek Unicode block, 436
> (greater-than) entity reference, 18, 46
declaring, 279
HTML 4.0 entity sets and, 424
XML specification for, 281
H[ Top ]
hasAttribute( ) (DOM)
Document interface, 362
Element interface, 375
hasAttributeNS( ) (DOM)
Document interface, 363
Element interface, 376
hasAttributes( ) (DOM), 394
hasChildNodes( ) (DOM), 394
hasFeature( ) (DOM), 245, 372
Hebrew Unicode block, 440
height property (CSS), 201
hexadecimal character references, 78
hidden elements (CSS display property), 200
HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR exception (DOM), 368
hover pseudo-class, 199
href attribute (see xlink:href attribute)
href pseudo-attribute, 106, 195
HTML
example of a standard document, 100
moving to XHTML from, 99-103
SGML and, 8
structure of documents, 87
vs. XHTML, 99
HTML 4.0 entity sets, 424-432
hypertext module (XHTML DTD), 110
I[ Top ]
IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), 71
IBM and character sets, 75
ID attribute type, 42
bare name XPointers and, 185
default for, 276
in element type declarations, 291
values must be unique, 275
id( ) (XPath), 164, 307
bare name XPointers and, 186
IDL (Interface Definition Language) and DOM, 236, 345-399
IDREF attribute type, 42
matching IDs in document, 276
in element type declarations, 291
IDREFS attribute type, 44
in element type declarations, 291
if element (see xsl:if element)
iframe module (XHTML DTD), 111
IGNORE directive, 53
illegal characters (Unicode), 419
image module (XHTML DTD), 111
implementation attribute (Document interface), 355
#IMPLIED default declaration, 45, 293
import element (see xsl:import element)
importNode( ) (DOM), 363
inbound links, 180
INCLUDE directive, 53
include element (see xsl:include element)
INDEX_SIZE_ERR exception (DOM), 368
Indian languages, Unicode block for, 443
inline areas (XSL-FO), 208
inline elements (CSS display property), 200
%Inline.extra; parameter entity reference, 115
%Inline.mix; entity reference, 113
inline-table value (display property), 201
input markup languages, 96
InputSource class (SAX), 405
insertBefore( ) (DOM), 394
insertData( ) (DOM), 352
Interface Definition Language (IDL) and DOM, 236, 345-399
interfaces, DOM Core, 237
internal DTD subsets, 31
general entity references and, 80
parameter entity references and, 52, 270
XML specification for, 268, 289
internal general entities, 267, 287
internalSubset attribute (DocumentType interface), 366
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Extensions Unicode block, 435
internationalization, 69-82
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), 71
Internet Explorer
displaying XML in web browsers, 108
lack of support for XSLT, 131
intrinsic events module (XHTML DTD), 111
INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR exception (DOM), 369
INVALID_ACCESS_ERR exception (DOM), 370
INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR exception (DOM), 368
INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR exception (DOM), 369
INVALID_STATE_ERR exception (DOM), 369
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Extensions Unicode block, 435
ISO character sets, 74
ISO-10646-UCS-2 encoding, 71, 72, 417
ISO-10646-UCS-4 encoding, 71, 418
ISO-2022-JP encoding, 71, 418
ISO-3166 (Codes for the Representation of Names of Countries), 82
ISO-639 (Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages), 81
ISO-8859 character sets, 422
ISO-8859-1 encoding, 71, 74, 418
vs. Cp1252 Windows character set, 422
ISO-8859-10 encoding, 75, 418
ISO-8859-11 encoding, 75, 418
ISO-8859-12 encoding, 418
ISO-8859-13 encoding, 75, 418
ISO-8859-14 encoding, 75, 418
ISO-8859-15 encoding, 75, 418
ISO-8859-2 encoding, 71, 74, 418
ISO-8859-3 encoding, 71, 74, 418
ISO-8859-4 encoding, 71, 74, 418
ISO-8859-5 encoding, 71, 74, 418
ISO-8859-6 encoding, 71, 75, 418
ISO-8859-7 encoding, 71, 75, 418
ISO-8859-8 encoding, 71, 75, 418
ISO-8859-9 encoding, 71, 75, 418
isSupported( ) (DOM), 395
item( ) (DOM), 383, 397
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Japanese characters
national standard character sets for, 418
UTF-8/UTF-16 encodings, 73, 417
Java
examples/bindings for DOM Core objects, 346-399
language-specific bindings for, 236, 345
XML parsers and, 232
Java Development Kit character set conversion tool, 77
K[ Top ]
Kay, Michael, 132
key element (see xsl:key element)
key( ) (XSLT), 343
Korean characters
national standard character set for, 75
UTF-8/UTF-16 encodings, 73, 417
L[ Top ]
label attribute (see xlink:label attribute)
lang pseudo-class, 199
lang( ) (XPath), 308
language attribute, 81
language codes, 81
last( ) (XPath), 164, 308
lastChild attribute (Node interface), 388
Latin Extended Additional Unicode block, 446
Latin Extended-A Unicode block, 432
Latin Extended-B Unicode block, 434
Latin-0 encoding, 75, 418
Latin-1 characters entity set, 80, 424-428
Latin-1 encoding, 74, 418, 422
Latin-2 encoding, 74, 418
Latin-3 encoding, 74, 418
Latin-4 encoding, 74, 418
Latin-5 encoding, 75, 418
Latin-6 encoding, 75, 418
Latin-7 encoding, 75, 418
Latin-8 encoding, 75, 418
Latin-9 encoding, 75, 418
layout-master-set element (see fo:layout-master-set element)
left property (CSS), 201
legacy encodings, 71
legacy module (XHTML DTD), 112
length attribute
CharacterData interface, 350
NamedNodeMap interface, 382
NodeList interface, 397
length, units of, 201
Letter-like Symbols Unicode block, 450
LexicalHandler interface (SAX), 415
line areas (XSL-FO), 208
line-height property (CSS), 201
link module (XHTML DTD), 111
link pseudo-class, 198
linkbases, 180
links, 233
behavior of, 170-173
extended (see extended links)
following, 172
inbound/outbound, 180
semantics of, 173
simple, 169
third-party, 180
XPointers in, 184
list elements (CSS display property), 200
list module (XHTML DTD), 110
list-block element (see fo:list-block element)
list-item value (display property), 200
list-style-image value (display property), 200
list-style-position value (display property), 200
list-style-type value (display property), 200
literal data characters, 134
literal default declaration, 46
little-endian UCS-2, 72
local parts, 61
local resources (extended links), 174, 179
localName attribute (Node interface), 388
local-name( ) (XPath), 165, 308
location paths, 150-156, 301
axes, 158, 301-304
building compound, 155, 302
node tests, 158, 301, 304
unabbreviated, 158-160
using predicates in, 157, 301, 305
location steps
attribute, 152, 302
child element, 151, 302
combining, 155
comment( ), 153
components of, 158
processing-instruction( ), 153
text( ), 153
locator elements, 174
Locator interface (SAX), 403
LocatorImpl class (SAX), 409
Lorie, Ray, 8, 85
< (less-than) entity reference, 18, 46
declaring, 279
HTML 4.0 entity sets and, 424
XML specification for, 281
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MacRoman character set, 76
Mac-specific character sets, 76
margin-bottom property (CSS), 201
margin-left property (CSS), 201
margin-right property (CSS), 201
margin-top property (CSS), 201
markup
describing a document's structure, 95
input vs. output languages, 96
tags and, 12
master pages for XSL-FO, 210-216
master-name attribute (XSL-FO), 210
Mathematical Markup Language (see MathML)
Mathematical Operators Unicode block, 452
MathML, xii, 81
media pseudo-attribute, 106, 196
Megginson, David, 10, 400
message element (see xsl:message element)
metainformation module (XHTML DTD), 111
Microsoft and character sets, 75
Microsoft DTD repository (biztalk.org), 56
Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block, 456
Miscellaneous Technical Unicode block, 453
%Misc.extra; parameter entity reference, 115
mixed content
element type, 37, 267, 290
in elements, 14
mod (XPath arithmetic operator), 161
mode attributes for XSLT elements, 142-143
Modular XHTML (see XHTML 1.1)
Modularization of XHTML (W3C specification), 113
modules, XHTML, 110-112
monetary symbols, Unicode block for, 450
Mosher, Ed, 8, 85
Mozilla, displaying XML in, 108
MSXML
stylesheet processors and, 132
XML parsers and, 232
Muellner, Leonard, 91
multilingual documents, 81
Murray-Rust, Peter, 10
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name attribute
Attr interface, 347
DocumentType interface, 366
name characters (Unicode), 419
name identification module (XHTML DTD), 112
name start characters (Unicode), 419
name tokens, XML, 41
name( ) (XPath), 165, 309
NamedNodeMap interface (DOM), 382-386
attribute for, 382
methods for, 383-386
names, element (see element names)
names, XML, 17
specification for, 268, 280
vs.name tokens, 41
namespace axis, 159, 304
namespace nodes
default template for, 141
location paths and, 153
node set functions for, 165
XPath data model and, 300
namespace URIs, 64
returned by SAX parsers, 414
XSLT processors and, 131
namespace-alias element (see xsl:namespace-alias element)
NAMESPACE_ERR exception (DOM), 370
namespaces, xii, 58-68
DTDs and, 67
how parsers handle, 66
reasons for using, 58-61
setting default, 65
syntax of, 61-66
XSLT and, 144-146, 315
NamespaceSupport class (SAX), 409
namespaceURI attribute (Node interface), 389
namespace-uri( ) (XPath), 165, 309
name-value pairs, 15-17
narrative-oriented DTDs, 55
narrative-oriented XML documents
DocBook, 91-94
structure of, 86-88
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), 88-91
national standard character sets, 75
native2ascii conversion tool (JDK), 77
NDATA declaration, 49
Netscape, displaying XML in, 108
nextSibling attribute (Node interface), 389
NMTOKEN attribute type, 41, 292
values must be legal name tokens, 277
NMTOKENS attribute type, 41, 292
values must be legal name tokens, 277
NO_DATA_ALLOWED_ERR exception (DOM), 369
Node interface (DOM), 238, 345, 386-396
attributes for, 386-392
methods for, 393-396
node set functions (XPath), 164
node sets in XPath, 301
node tests
in location paths, 158, 301, 304
XPointers and, 187
node types (DOM Core), 240-245
node( ) node test, 304
node( ) XPath wildcard, 154
NodeList interface (DOM), 397
attribute for, 397
method for, 397
nodeName attribute (Node interface), 389
nodes in XML documents
DOM and, 238-245
XPath and, 147-167
XSLT and, 138-141
nodeType attribute
DOM (Document Object Model), 238
Node interface, 390
nodeValue attribute (Node interface), 390
NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR exception (DOM), 369
none value (display property), 200
normalize( ) (DOM)
Element interface, 376
Node interface, 395
normalize-space( ) (XPath), 166, 309
not( ) (XPath), 167, 309
NOTATION attribute type, 45, 269, 292
not available for empty elements, 277
only one per element type, 277
notation attributes, 277
<!NOTATION> declaration, 49-51
NOTATION declaration, 49-51
notation declarations, 269, 293
as a programming model, 234
names must be unique, 279
unparsed entities and, 279
Notation interface (DOM), 241
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 391
object hierarchy for, 346
notation syntax, XML, 234
notationName attribute (Entity interface), 381
NOTATION_NODE (DOM node type), 239
importNode( ) and, 364
nodeType attribute and, 390
notations attribute (DocumentType interface), 367
NOT_FOUND_ERR exception (DOM), 369
NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR exception (DOM), 369
number element (see xsl:number element)
number( ) (XPath), 167, 310
numbers in XPath, 161, 300
numeric functions (XPath), 167
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Oasis DTD repository (xml.org), 56
object hierarchy (DOM), 237, 346
object module (XHTML DTD), 111
object reference (DOM Level 2 Core), 346-399
object serialization and XML, 226
object-driven models, 230
OCR-A characters, Unicode block for, 455
online validators, 32
Optical Character Recognition Unicode block, 455
org.xml.sax package, 251, 400-407
ContentHandler interface and, 252-259
org.xml.sax.ext package, 415
org.xml.sax.helpers package, 407-413
otherwise element (see xsl:otherwise element)
outbound links, 180
output element (see xsl:output element)
output formats, 96
ownerDocument attribute (Node interface), 391
ownerElement attribute (Attr interface), 347
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page-sequence element (see fo:page-sequence element)
param element (see xsl:param element)
param module (XHTML DTD), 111
parameter entities, XML specification for, 285-287
parameter entity declarations, 268, 286
declaring, 279
parameter entity references, 51-53
changing prefixes using, 67
connecting XHTML modules, 110-112
external DTD subsets and, 52
in DTD only, 273
including declarations in, 270
internal subsets and, 270
location in DTD is important, 287
mixing applications into XHTML, 115
mixing XHTML into applications, 112-115
proper nesting with
conditional sections, 278
markup declarations, 273
parenthesized groups, 275
redefining, 52
syntax of, 51
XLink elements and, 181
XML specification for, 268, 282, 286
(see also entity references)
parent axis, 158, 303
parent elements, 13
selecting with . . (double period), 156, 302
parentheses in element declarations, 36
parentNode attribute (Node interface), 391
parse( ), 251, 405
parsed character data, 18
parsed general entities, 48
attribute values and, 271
no recursion allowed, 272
SAX core feature, 414
text declarations and, 70
XML specification for, 268, 287
ParserAdapter class (SAX), 410
parsers, validating, 7, 238
(see also XML, parsers)
#PCDATA keyword, 29, 34
in narrative-oriented documents, 87
PDF format for XSL-FO documents, 221
Perl and XML parsers, 231
pictographic symbols, Unicode block for, 456
Pinard, Fran�ois, 77
pixels (relative unit of length), 202
platform-dependent character sets, 75
points in XPointers, 186-188
position( ) (XPath), 163, 310
preceding axis, 159, 303
preceding-sibling axis, 159, 303
predefined character references, 269, 281
predicates
in location paths, 157, 301, 305
optional part of location steps, 158
prefix attribute (Node interface), 392
prefixes
binding to URIs, 62-64
default namespaces and, 65
element names and, 61
using parameter entity references to change, 67
preorder traversal, 135
presentation module (XHTML DTD), 110
preserve-space element (see xsl:preserve-space element)
previousSibling attribute (Node interface), 392
processing instruction nodes
default template for, 141
XPath data model and, 300
processing instructions, 20
DOM/SAX and, 233
notations for targets of, 50
robots, 128
vs. XPointers, 188
web browser problems with, 104
XML specification for, 268, 283
processing-instruction element (see xsl:processing-instruction element)
ProcessingInstruction interface (DOM), 240, 398
attributes for, 398
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 391
object hierarchy, 346
processing-instruction( )
location step, 153
node test, 304
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE (DOM node type), 239
importNode( ) and, 364
nodeType attribute and, 390
programming models used with XML, 230-235
prolog (XML document), 30, 265
properties
of Cascading Stylesheets, 200-205
controlling parser behavior for SAX, 259, 413
of XSL-FO, 216-220
proprietary character sets, 75
pseudo-attributes for xml-stylesheet processing instructions, 106-108, 195
pseudo-class selectors, 198
pseudo-element selectors, 199
PUBLIC keyword (document type declaration), 30
publicId attribute
DocumentType interface, 367
Entity interface, 381
punctuation characters, Unicode block for, 449
pyexpat interface, 231
Python and XML parsers, 231
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QNames/qualified names, 61
defining, 68
quantum mechanics symbols, Unicode block for, 453
Query Language, XML, 10
" (straight double quotes) entity reference, 18, 46
declaring, 279
HTML 4.0 entity sets and, 424
XML specification for, 281
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Ragget, Dave, 103
range( ), 189
range-inside( ), 189
ranges in XPointers, 189
range-to( ), 189
raw names, 61
defining, 68
RDF (Resource Description Framework), xiii, 125
Dublin Core and, 127
future vision for, 228
recode (conversion tool), 77
region-after child element (see fo:region-after child element)
region-before child element (see fo:region-before child element)
region-body child element (see fo:region-body child element)
region-end child element (see fo:region-end child element)
region-start child element (see fo:region-start child element)
relational operators in XPath, 157, 162
relative location paths, 301
building compound location paths, 156
relative units of length (CSS properties), 202
remote resources (extended links), 174
third-party links and, 180
removeAttribute( ) (DOM), 376
removeAttributeNode( ) (DOM), 377
removeAttributeNS( ) (DOM), 377
removeChild( ) (DOM), 395
removeNamedItem( ) (DOM), 384
removeNamedItemNS( ) (DOM), 384
RenderX formatting program (XEP), 216
replaceChild( ) (DOM), 396
replaceData( ) (DOM), 352
repository of DTDs, 57
#REQUIRED default declaration, 45, 293
value must be assigned to attributes, 278
Resource Description Framework (see RDF)
resource elements, 179
resources and RDF documents, 125
robots processing instruction, 128
role attribute (see xlink:role attribute)
role attributes for arcs, 178
root element, 13, 265
determining name of, 273
in narrative-oriented documents, 86
of TEI documents, 90
vs. root node, 150
(see also fo:root element)
root interface (DOM Core), 238
root location path, 150, 302
root node
default template for, 141
vs. root element, 150
XPath data model and, 299
round( ) (XPath), 163, 167, 310
Ruby Annotation (W3C specification), 113
ruby module (XHTML DTD), 112
Russian language, Unicode block for, 437-439
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Sanskrit language, Unicode block for, 443
SAX (Simple API for XML), xii, 229, 250-261
Attributes interface, 400
AttributesImpl class, 407
ContentHandler interface, 252-259, 401
controlling parser behavior with URIs, 259, 413
DeclHandler interface, 415
DefaultHandler class, 258, 408
DTDHandler interface, 402
EntityResolver interface, 402
ErrorHandler interface, 403
features of, 259, 413
InputSource class, 405
LexicalHandler interface, 415
Locator interface, 403
LocatorImpl class, 409
methods called by parser in ContentHandler, 253-256
NamespaceSupport class, 409
nondeterministic code details, 256
non-standard extensions for, 232
org.xml.sax package, 251, 400-407
org.xml.sax.ext package, 415
org.xml.sax.helpers package, 407-413
ParserAdapter class, 410
parsing a document with, 251
processing instructions and, 233
properties of, 259, 414
reference, 400-416
SAX1 vs. SAX2, 250, 400
SAXException class, 251, 405
SAXNotRecognizedException class, 260, 406, 415
SAXNotSupportedException class, 260, 407, 415
SAXParseException class, 406
vs. DOM, 230, 259
XMLFilter interface, 404
XMLFilterImpl class, 411
XMLReader interface, 251, 404
XMLReaderAdapter class, 412
XMLReaderFactory class, 251, 413
SAXException class, 251, 405
SAXNotRecognizedException class, 260, 406, 415
SAXNotSupportedException class, 260, 407, 415
SAXON (XSLT processor), 132
SAXParseException class (SAX), 406
sax.SAXCount class, 24, 32
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), xii
schema.net (DTD repository), 56
Schemas, XML, 10, 228
datatyping with, 40
scripting module (XHTML DTD), 111
search methods on the web, 124-128
selectors for Cascading Stylesheets, 197-200
self axis, 158, 304
sequences in element declarations, 34
server-side image map module (XHTML DTD), 111
setAttribute( ) (DOM), 347, 378
setAttributeNode( ) (DOM), 347, 379
setAttributeNodeNS( ) (DOM), 380
setAttributeNS( ) (DOM), 378
setContentHandler( ) (SAX), 401
setDocumentLocator( ) (SAX), 253
setDTDHandler( ) (SAX), 402
setEntityResolver( ) (SAX), 402
setErrorHandler( ) (SAX), 403
setFeature( ) (SAX), 260
setLocator( ) (SAX), 403
setNamedItem( ) (DOM), 385
setNamedItemNS( ) (DOM), 386
setProperty( ) (SAX), 261, 415
SGML and XML, 8, 85
Shift_JIS encoding, 71, 419
show attribute (see xlink:show attribute)
sibling elements, 13
Signatures, XML, 10
Simple API for XML (see SAX)
simple attribute types, 267, 291
simple links, 169
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), 226
simple-page-master element (see fo:simple-page-master element)
Slavic languages, Unicode block for, 437-439
sort element (see xsl:sort element)
source code samples and CDATA sections, 19
Spacing Modifier Letters Unicode block, 436
special attributes, 267, 293
special characters entity set, 80, 424, 428
specified attribute (Attr interface), 348
Sperberg-McQueen, C.M., 9
splitText( ) (DOM), 399
standalone declaration, 23
external DTD subsets and, 31
setting value to "no", 273
XML specification for, 268, 285
start tags, 12
attributes and, 15
XML specification for, 268, 294
startDocument( ) (SAX), 253, 256
startElement( ) (SAX), 253-255, 401
starting resources, 169
start-point( ), 188
startPrefixMapping( ) (SAX), 253
starts-with( ) (XPath), 163, 166, 311
strict DTD (XHTML), 104
string functions (XPath), 165
string( ) (XPath), 165, 311
string-length( ) (XPath), 166, 312
string-range( ), 190
strings
in XPath, 161, 301
internalized (SAX feature), 414
strip-space element (see xsl:strip-space element)
structural nodes (DOM Core), 240
structure module (XHTML DTD), 110
style attribute module (XHTML DTD), 111
style rules, 195
stylesheet element (see xsl:stylesheet element)
stylesheet module (XHTML DTD), 111
stylesheets
displaying XML in web browsers, 105-110
document permanence and, 96
(see also Cascading Stylesheets)
subcodes (languages), 82
substring( ) (XPath), 166, 312
substring-after( ) (XPath), 166, 312
substring-before( ) (XPath), 166, 313
substringData( ) (DOM), 353
suffixes in element declarations, 35
sum( ) (XPath), 167, 313
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), xii
symbols entity set, 80, 424, 429-432
syntax structures of XML documents, 279-285
SYNTAX_ERR exception (DOM), 369
SYSTEM keyword (document type declaration), 30
systemId attribute
DocumentType interface, 367
Entity interface, 381
system-property( ) (XSLT), 343
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table element (see fo:table element)
table elements (CSS display property), 201
table value (display property), 201
table-and-caption element (see fo:table-and-caption element)
table-caption value (display property), 201
table-cell value (display property), 201
table-column value (display property), 201
table-column-group value (display property), 201
table-footer-group value (display property), 201
table-header-group value (display property), 201
table-row value (display property), 201
table-row-group value (display property), 201
tables module (XHTML DTD), 111
tag sets, 4
tagName attribute (Element interface), 373
tags
empty element, 268, 295
matching, 270
overlapping not allowed, 13
start/end, 12, 268, 294
syntax of, 12
target attribute (CharacterData interface), 398
target module (XHTML DTD), 111
Tauber, James, 56
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), 88-91
template element (see xsl:template element)
template rules, built-in (see built-in template rules)
templates
adding to XSLT stylesheets, 133
xsl:apply-templates and, 135-138
text declarations
external entities and, 48
vs. XML declarations, 70
text element (see xsl:text element)
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), 88-91
Text interface (DOM), 245, 399
method for, 399
nodeName attribute and, 389
nodeValue attribute and, 390
object hierarchy, 346
text module (XHTML DTD), 110
text nodes
default template for, 139-140
XPath data model and, 300
text properties
Cascading Stylesheets, 203
XSL-FO, 208
text( )
location step, 153
node test, 304
text-align property (CSS), 204
text-decoration property (CSS), 204
text-indent property (CSS), 203
TEXT_NODE (DOM node type), 238
importNode( ) and, 364
nodeType attribute and, 390
text-transform property (CSS), 204
Thai characters
ISO-8859-11 encoding, 75, 418
Unicode block for, 444
third-party links, 180
Tibetan Unicode block, 444
Tidy (open source tool), 103
title attribute (see xlink:title attribute)
title attributes for arcs, 178
title elements (extended links), 179
title pseudo-attribute, 107, 196
to attribute (see xlink:to attribute)
Tobin, Richard, 32
top property (CSS), 201
transform element (see xsl:transform element)
transformation languages, 96
transformations, XSL (see XSLT)
transitional DTD (XHTML), 104
translate( ) (XPath), 313
traversal
Node interface and, 240
xsl:apply-templates and, 135
true( ) (XPath), 167, 314
Turing, Alan, 11-17, 27-31, 38, 54, 129-146, 148, 151, 157, 165
JPEG image of, 49, 171
type attribute (see xlink:type attribute)
type pseudo-attribute, 106, 195
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UCS-2 encoding, 72
UCS-4 encoding, 78
unabbreviated location paths, 158-160
unassigned code points (Unicode), 419
Unicode blocks, 432-458
Arabic, 441
Armenian, 439
Arrows, 451
Currency Symbols, 450
Cyrillic, 437-439
Devanagari, 443
Dingbat, 456
General Punctuation, 449
Geometric Shapes, 455
Greek Extended, 447-449
Greek/Coptic, 436
Hebrew, 440
IPA Extensions, 435
Latin Extended Additional, 446
Latin Extended-A, 432
Latin Extended-B, 434
Letter-like Symbols, 450
Mathematical Operators, 452-453
Miscellaneous Symbols, 456
Miscellaneous Technical, 453
Optical Character Recognition, 455
Spacing Modifier Letters, 436
Thai, 444
Tibetan, 444
Unicode characters, 69-81
character references and, 281
character set names, 417-419
character tables for, 419-424
Uniform Resource Identifiers (see URIs)
Uniform Resource Names (URNs), 30
units of length (CSS), 201
unparsed general entities, 49-51
declaring notations, 279
not allowed in entity references, 272
XML specification for, 268, 288
unparsed-entity-uri( ) (XSLT), 344
URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers), 30
assigning elements to, 61
binding prefixes to, 62-64
controlling parser behavior for SAX, 259, 413
conventions for using, 62
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) and XPointers, 182
URNs (Uniform Resource Names), 30
UTF-16 encoding, 71, 73, 285, 417
UTF-8 encoding, 71, 73, 285, 417
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validating parsers, 7, 238
(see also XML, parsers)
validity constraints, 273-279
validity errors, 7, 26, 32
value attribute (Attr interface), 348
value-of element (see xsl:value-of element)
variable element (see xsl:variable element)
vendor property (see xsl:vendor property)
vendor-url property (see xsl:vendor-url property)
version information attribute, 22
XML specification for, 268, 284
version property (see xsl:version property)
VIetnamese language, Unicode block most useful for, 446
visited pseudo-class, 198
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W3C
recommended form of XHTML, 104
standard DTDs and, 57
standards endorsed by, xii
styling XML documents, 9
templates for
defining the namespace URI and prefix names, 116
importing standard modules, 122
naming attributes and elements, 120
Walsh, Norman, 91
web browsers
CSS stylesheets in, 195, 221
displaying XML in, 105-110
document validation and, 32
link behavior in, 170
linkbases and, 180
support for XHTML, 104
XLinks support, 168
XPointers and, 183
web search methods, 124-128
well-formedness, 4, 11
changing HTML to XHTML, 99
checking documents for, 23-25
constraints recognized by XML 1.0 parsers, 266-273
errors, 7, 23-25, 26
SAXParseException and, 406
XSLT stylesheets and, 134
when element (see xsl:when element)
whitespace
in element contents, 12
in XML names, 17
stripping, 333
XML parsers and, 234
XML specification for, 268, 279
white-space property (CSS), 204
width property (CSS), 201
wildcards and location paths, 154
Windows ANSI character set, 76
with-param element (see xsl:with-param element)
World Wide Web Consortium (see W3C)
WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR exception (DOM), 368
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Xalan (Apache XML Project XSLT processor), 132
XEP (RenderX formatting program), 216
#xFEFF Unicode character, 73
XFragment, 10
XHTML, 10, 98-105
creating a valid document, 100
DTDs for, 104
example of a valid document, 102
moving from HTML to, 99-103
vs. HTML, 99
web browser support for, 104
XHTML 1.1, 98, 110-124
creating your own XHTML, 116-124
list of modules, 110-112
mixing applications into, 115
mixing modules into applications, 112-115
Module-based XHTML (W3C specification), 113
%xhtml11-ruby.module; parameter entity, 112
%xhtml-applet.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-base.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-basic-form.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-basic-table.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-bdo.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-csismap.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-edit.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-events.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-form.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-frames.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-hypertext.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-iframe.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-image.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-inlstyle.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-legacy.module; parameter entity, 112
%xhtml-link.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-list.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-meta.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-nameident.module; parameter entity, 112
%xhtml-object.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-param.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-pres.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-script.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-ssismap.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-struct.module; parameter entity, 110
%xhtml-style.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-table.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-target.module; parameter entity, 111
%xhtml-text.module; parameter entity, 110
xlink:actuate attribute, 172
xlink:arcrole attribute, 178
xlink:from attribute, 175-180
xlink:href attribute, 169
locator elements and, 174
xlink:label attribute, 174
local resources and, 179
xlink:role attribute, 173
local resources and, 179
locator elements and, 175
XLinks, xii, 168-181, 233
DTDs for, 181
extended links, 173-180
link behavior, 170-173
simple links, 169
third-party links, 180
XPointers and, 184
xlink:show attribute, 171
xlink:title attribute, 173
arc elements and, 178
local resources and, 179
locator elements and, 175
xlink:to attribute, 175-180
xlink:type attribute, 169
arc elements and, 175-179
extended links and, 174
local resources and, 179
locator elements and, 174
values of, 170
XLL (Extensible Linking Language), 9
XML
applications, 4
comments, 20
communications protocols and, 226
data format, 6, 225-229
data storage/retrieval and, 227
describing data, 227-229
displaying in web browsers, 105-110
documents, 11
associating stylesheets with, 195
counting elements/attributes, 256-259
default character set for, 77
grammar for, 295
narrative-oriented, 86-88
nodes in, 138-141
parsing with DOM, 238
permanence of, 94-96
syntax structures, 279-285
transforming and presenting, 96
tree structure of, 147-150
validating, 4, 26-33
enterprise applications and, 226
evolution of, 8-10
files, 11
filters, implementing, 411
how it works, 6-8
name tokens, 41
names, 17, 41, 268, 280
namespaces (see namespaces)
notation syntax, 234
object serialization and, 226
parsers, 7
checking documents for well-formedness, 23-25
checking the character set, 77
comparing namespace URIs, 65
handling namespaces, 66
programming language support for, 231
XMLReader interface and, 404
processing instructions (see processing instructions)
programmers, support for, 229
programming models used with, 230-235
SGML and, 8
stylesheets, 105-110
trees, 13
XML declaration, 21-23
web browser problems with, 104
XML specification for, 268, 284
XML Query Language, 10
XML Schemas, 10, 228
datatyping with, 40
XML Signatures, 10
XML Validation Form (Brown University), 32
XML-defined character sets, 71
XMLFilter interface (SAX), 404
XMLFilterImpl class (SAX), 411
xml:lang attribute, 81-82
xmlns attributes
SAX core feature, 414
setting default namespaces with, 65
in XPath data model, 150
xml.org (DTD repository), 56
XMLReader interface (SAX), 251, 404
ContentHandler interface and, 252
counting elements/attributes in a document, 258
validating parsers, 259
XMLReaderAdapter class (SAX), 412
XMLReaderFactory class (SAX), 251, 413
xml-stylesheet processing instructions, 21
associating stylesheets with XML documents, 195
pseudo-attributes used in, 106-108
XSLT stylesheets and, 133
XPath, xii, 147-167
arithmetic operators in, 161
Boolean expressions, 162, 300
Boolean functions, 167
comparison operators, 162
data model, 150, 299
expressions, 160-163, 300
XSLT elements and, 135-137
functions, 163-167, 305-314
location paths, 150-156, 301
axes, 158, 301-304
node tests, 158, 301, 304
node set functions, 164
node sets in, 301
numbers in, 161, 300
numeric functions, 167
predicates in location paths, 157, 301, 305
reference, 299-314
relational operators, 157, 162
string functions, 165
strings in, 161, 301
unabbreviated location paths, 158-160
xpointer( ), 183
XPointers, xii, 182-190
bare names, 185
in links, 184
points in, 186-188
ranges in, 189
on URLs, 182
vs. processing instructions, 188
XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), 9
xsl:apply-imports element, 317
xsl:apply-templates element, 135-138, 318
xsl:attribute element, 318
xsl:attribute-set element, 319
xsl:call-template element, 320
xsl:choose element, 320
xsl:comment element, 320
xsl:copy element, 321
xsl:copy-of element, 321
xsl:decimal-format element, 322, 341
xsl:element element, 323
xsl:fallback element, 324
XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects), 4, 191, 206-222
documents
boxes in, 208
generating, 213-216
structure of, 209
master pages, 210-216
properties, 216-220
vs. CSS, 221
xsl:for-each element, 324
xsl:if element, 325
xsl:import element, 325
xsl:include element, 326
xsl:key element, 326
xsl:message element, 327
xsl:namespace-alias element, 327
xsl:number element, 165, 328
xsl:otherwise element, 329
xsl:output element, 330
xsl:param element, 331
xsl:preserve-space element, 332
xsl:processing-instruction element, 332
xsl:sort element, 333
xsl:strip-space element, 333
xsl:stylesheet element, 130-132, 334
XSLT, xii, 9, 129-146
functions, 339-344
Internet Explorer and, 108
Mozilla and, 109
Netscape and, 109
processors, 129, 132
problems with incorrect namespace URIs, 131
transforming XML documents, 96
using DOM or SAX with, 232
XSLT stylesheets, 129
adding templates to, 133
attribute value templates, 144
built-in template rules and, 138-141
elements, categories of, 315-317
flowing content into pages, 213
modes and, 142-143
namespaces and, 144-146, 315
transforming documents into XSL-FO documents, 213-216, 218-220
XSL-FO and, 206
xsl:stylesheet element and, 130-132, 334
xsl:template element, 133, 335
xsl:text element, 336
xsl:transform element, 130-132, 336
xsl:value-of element, 134, 337
string( ) and, 165
xsl:variable element, 337
xsl:vendor property, 343
xsl:vendor-url property, 343
xsl:version property, 343
xsl:when element, 338
xsl:with-param element, 339
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Yiddish language, Unicode block for, 440
Z[ Top ]
Zapf Dingbats font, Unicode block for, 456
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