Update: The second edition of the XML Bible has been published. Table of Contents Preface Part I: Introducing XML Chapter 1: An Eagle's Eye View of XML (no examples in this chapter) Chapter 2: XML Applications Chapter 3: Your First XML Document Chapter 4: Structuring Documents Chapter 5: Attributes, Empty Tags, and XSL Chapter 6: Well-Formed XML Documents Chapter 7: Foreign Languages and Non-Roman Text Part II: Document Type Definitions and Validity Chapter 8: Element Declarations Chapter 9: Entities and External DTD Subsets Chapter 10: Attribute Declarations in DTDs Chapter 11: Embedding Non-XML Data Part III: Style Sheets Chapter 12: Cascading Style Sheets Level 1 Chapter 13: Cascading Style Sheets Level 2 Chapter 14: XSL Transformations Chapter 15: XSL Formatting Objects Part IV: Supplemental Technologies Chapter 16: XLinks Chapter 17: XPointers Chapter 18: Namespaces Chapter 19: The Resource Description Framework Part V: XML Applications Chapter 20: Reading Document Type Definitions Chapter 21: Pushing Web Sites with CDF Chapter 22: The Vector Markup Language Chapter 23: Designing a new XML Application Appendixes XML QuickRef Appendix A: XML Reference Material Appendix B: XML 1.| French Translation/Traduction en Francais It's $49.99, published by IDG Books, and written by me, ElliotteRusty Harold. If I've succeeded in piqueing your interest, you'll be able tofind The XML Bible at almost any bookstore thatcarries computer books including. Part II: Document Type Definitions and Validity

You'll even learn how you can write XML documents in languages other than English, even languages that aren't written remotely like English such as Chinese, Hebrew, and Russian. You'll see how to edit them in a text editor, attach style sheets to them, and load them into a Web browser like Internet Explorer 5.0 or Mozilla. Then you'll learn by example how to write XML documents with tags you define that make sense for your document.

You'll see several compelling examples of XML applications to give you some idea of the wide applicability of XML including the Vector Markup Language (VML), the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML), the Extensible Forms Description Language (XFDL), and many others. It begins with the history and theory behind XML, the goals XML is trying to achieve, and shows you how the different pieces of the XML equation fit together to create and deliver documents to readers. Part 1, Introducing XML, elucidates the purpose, structure, and syntax of XML.

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