XML: the refresher
Lou Burnard
July 2000
Topics
Electronic Texts in Humanities Research
XML: what it is and why you should care
A smidgeon of theory
XML terminology
The rules of the XML Game
Representing an XML tree
An example XML document
XML syntax: the small print
Splot the mistake
Defining the rules
Defining an element
Content models
For example...
Defining an attribute list
Defining an attribute list (2)
An example DTD
Entities
Entities: some examples
What use is a DTD?
XML: a licence for ill?
Namespaces
Defaulting namespaces
DTD : what does it really mean?
Some typical scenarios
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XML: the refresher
