Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Introduction
- Part I: At a Glance
- Day 1. Welcome to XML
- Day 2. Creating XML Documents
- Day 3. Creating Well-Formed XML Documents
- Day 4. Creating Valid XML Documents: DTDs
- Declaring Attributes in DTDs
- Day 6. Creating Valid XML Documents: XML Schemas
- Day 7. Creating Types in XML Schemas
- Part I. In Review
- Day 8. Formatting XML by Using Cascading Style Sheets
- Day 9. Formatting XML by Using XSLT
- Day 10. Working with XSL Formatting Objects
- Part II. In Review
- Part III: At a Glance
- Day 11. Extending HTML with XHTML
- Day 12. Putting XHTML to Work
- Day 13. Creating Graphics and Multimedia: SVG and SMIL
- Day 14. Handling XLinks, XPointers, and XForms
- Part III. In Review
- Part IV: At a Glance
- Day 15. Using JavaScript and XML
- Day 16. Using Java and .NET: DOM
- Day 17. Using Java and .NET: SAX
- Day 18. Working with SOAP and RDF
- Part IV. In Review
- Part V: At a Glance
- Day 19. Handling XML Data Binding
- Day 20. Working with XML and Databases
- Day 21. Handling XML in .NET
- Part V. In Review
- Appendix A. Quiz Answers
Day 11. Extending HTML with XHTML
Over the next few days, you'll begin to see XML at work. You'll start with the XML application that has probably the most authors today—Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML). XHTML is the W3C's version of HTML 4.0, written entirely in XML (and the W3C is responsible for HTML in the first place, so it knows something about the subject). By using XHTML, you can create Web pages that not only work in today's browsers but can also be checked to make sure they're well-formed and valid. You'll put XHTML to work today and tomorrow.
Here's an overview of today's topics:
- XHTML basics
- How XHTML differs from HTML
- The XHTML versions
- XHTML validation
- The <html> element
- The <head> element
- The <body> element
- The <title> element
- Headings
- How to organize text
- How to display text
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