Appendix B. XML and Related Specs: Digesting the Alphabet Soup
This appendix provides a high-level overview of the various XML-related acronyms and what they mean. There is a lot of work going on around XML, so there is a lot to learn.
The current APIs for accessing XML documents either serially or in random access mode are, respectively, SAX (page 1344) and DOM (page 1345). The specifications for ensuring the validity of XML documents are DTD (page 1346) (the original mechanism, defined as part of the XML specification) and various Schema Standards (page 1348) proposals (newer mechanisms that use XML syntax to do the job of describing validation criteria).
Other future standards that are nearing completion include the XSL (page 1347) standard, ...
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