Chapter 14. XML and RSS

 

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

 
 --Hal Borland
 

Like everything metaphysical, the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

 
 --Ludwig Wittgenstein
 

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

 
 --Oscar Wilde

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

  • To mark up data using XML.

  • How XML namespaces help provide unique XML element and attribute names.

  • To create DTDs and schemas for specifying and validating the structure of an XML document.

  • To create and use simple XSL style sheets to render XML document ...

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