Structuring XML documents
David Megginson · Prentice-Hall, Inc eBooks · 1998
Introduction. XML and SGML. The Book's Structure. Notations and Conventions. Presentation of Examples. Typographical Conventions. Figures. I. BACKGROUND. 1. Review of DTD Syntax. Document Type Declaration. Elements. Attributes. Entities. Notations. Conditional Sections. Processing Instructions. 2. Model DTDs. Reading About the Model DTDs. A Note About Using Industry-Standard DTDs. The Five Model DTDs. II. PRINCIPLES OF DTD ANALYSIS. 3. Ease of Learning. DTD Size. DTD Consistency. DTD Intuitiveness. 4. Ease of Use. Physical Effort. Choice. Flexibility. 5. Ease of Processing. Predictability. Context. DTD Analysis: Final Considerations. III. ADVANCE ISSUES IN DTD MAINTENANCE AND DESIGN. 6. DTD Compatibility. Structural Compatibility. Lexical Compatibility. 7. Exchanging Document Fragments. Editing Fragments as Stand-Alone Documents. Reparenting in a Dummy Document. Using Subdocuments. 8. DTD Customization. Types of Customization. Extension Mechanisms in the Model DTDs. IV. DTD DESIGN WITH ARCHITECTURAL FORMS. 9. Architectural Forms: Concepts. Meta-DTDs. Documents. Practical Uses of Architectural Forms. Summary of Terminology. 10. Basic Architectural Forms Syntax. Setup and Configuration. Basic Forms. 11. Advanced Architectural Forms Syntax. Automatic Derivation. Suppressing Architectural Processing. Architectural Attribute Values. Default Architectural Information. Meta-DTDs. V. BACK MATTER. Model DTDs: Index of Element Types and Attributes. General Index. About the CD-ROM.