Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days

By Steven Holzner

• 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
    • What Makes an XML Document Well-Formed?
    • Creating an Example XML Document
    • Understanding the Well-Formedness Constraints
    • Using XML Namespaces
    • Understanding XML Infosets
    • Understanding Canonical XML
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Workshop
  • 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

Workshop

This workshop tests whether you understand the concepts you saw today. It's a good idea to make sure you can answer these questions before pressing on to tomorrow's work.

Quiz

1. To be well-formed, what's the least number of elements an XML document can contain?
2. Why is the following XML document not well-formed?

   <?xml version = "1.0" standalone="yes"?>
   <employee>
       <name>Frank</name>
       <position>Chef</position>
   </employee>
   <employee>
       <name>Ronnie</name>
       <position>Chef</position>
   </employee>
   

3. Why is the following XML document not well-formed?

   <?xml version = "1.0" standalone="yes"?>
   <employee>
       <kitchen_staff/>
       <name language=en>Frank</name>
       <new_hire />
       <position language=en>Chef</position>
   </employee>
   

4. How can you create a namespace named service whose URI is http://www.superduperbigco.com/customer_service?
5. How could you set the default namespace in a set of XML elements to the URI http://www.superduperbigco.com/customer_returns?

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