XML Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟DTD (Document Type Definition) Introduction

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on DTD (Document Type Definition). Topics include introduction to DTD (Document Type Definition); using DOCTYPE statement to define an XML document type; specifying XML elements, attributes and entities declaration statements inside or outside XML files; validating XML files against DTD document types.

What Is DTD (Document Type Definition)?

XML Files with Embedded DTD Statements

XML Files with Linked External DTD Files

Validating an XML File against a DTD Document Type

Conclusion:

• DTD (Document Type Definition) a language designed to define document types for SGML and XML documents.
• The DOCTYPE statement is used to declare a document type.
• ELEMENT, ATTRIBUTE, and ENTITY statements are used to declare elements, attributes and entities of a document type.
• DTD statements can be included inside the XML file, or stored outside the XML file.
• Validation of XML files against their document types can be done by XML validation tools.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

 XML File Syntax

 XML File Browsers

 DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface

 SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface

►DTD (Document Type Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of DTD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified DTD Document Type

 XSD (XML Schema Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of XSD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified XML Schema

 XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) Introduction

 XSLT (XSL Transformations) Introduction

 Java Implementation of XSLT

 XPath (XML Path) Language

 XSLT Elements as Programming Statements

 Control and Generate XML Element in the Result

 References

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