Xpath, Xlink, Xpointer, And Xml: A Practical Guide To Web Hyperlinking And Transclusion

Front matter XPath, XLink, XPointer, and XML: A Practical Guide to Web Hyperlinking and Transclusion By Erik Wilde, David Lowe Publisher: Addison Wesley Pub Date: July 23, 2002 • Table of ISBN: 0-201-70344-0 Contents Pages: 304 The combination of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its related interlinking standards bring a range of exciting possibilities to the realm of Internet content management. This practical reference book documents these critical standards, shifting theory into practice for today's developers who are creating tomorrow's useful, efficient, and information-rich applications and Web sites. Blending advanced reference material with practical guidelines, this authoritative guide presents a historical overview, current developments, and future perspectives in three detailed sections. Part I provides a conceptual framework highlighting current and emerging linking technologies, hypermedia concepts, and the rationale behind the "open" Web of tomorrow. Part II covers the specifics behind the emerging core standards, and then Part III examines how these technologies can be applied and how the concepts can be put to efficient use within the world of Web site management and Web publishing. Both detailed and authoritative, this book presents the most thorough documentation of XML's linking standards available, and it examines how today's enabling technologies are likely to change the Web of tomorrow. Topics covered in-depth include: ● ● ● ● ● ● Hypermedia concepts and alternatives to the Web XML Namespaces, XML Base, XInclude, XML Information Set, XHTML, and XSLT XPath, XLink, and XPointer concepts, strengths, and limitations Emerging tools, applications, and environments Migration strategies, from conventional models to more sophisticated linking techniques Future perspectives on the XPath, XLink, and XPointer standards 777 Copyright List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Preface Purpose of the Book The Book's Audience The Book's Content Acknowledgments About the Authors file:///F|/e-books/Programming/Extensible/(Addison...,%20XPointer%20&%20XML%20(2002)/Front%20matter.htm (1 von 13)03.09.2006 02:46:13 Front matter Introduction Information Linking The Web XML Conclusions The Web We Want Chapter 1. Current Technology 1.1 The Internet Environment 1.2 The World Wide Web 1.3 Information Linking in the WWW 1.4 Conclusions Chapter 2. Hypermedia Concepts and Alternatives to the Web 2.1 What is Hypermedia? 2.2 Hypermedia Concepts 2.3 Usage Scenarios: Hypermedia Support for Information Utilization 2.4 Conclusions Chapter 3. Conceptual Viewpoint 3.1 References Versus Links 3.2 Resource Identification: URL, URI, and URN 3.3 Persistence of Identifiers and References 3.4 Third-Party Links and Linkbases 3.5 Multi-Ended Links 3.6 Generic Links 3.7 Typed Links 3.8 Conclusions The Web's New Look Chapter 4. Related Technologies HTML as Common Content Format HTTP as Protocol URL as Resource Identification 4.1 XML Core Standards 4.2 XML Namespaces 4.3 XML Base 4.4 XML Inclusions 4.5 XML Information Set 4.6 Extensible Hypertext Markup Language 4.7 Extensible Stylesheet Language 4.8 Resource Description Framework 4.9 Conclusions Chapter 5. XML Path Language 5.1 General Model 5.2 Location Paths 5.3 Expressions 5.4 Functions file:///F|/e-books/Programming/Extensible/(Addison...,%20XPointer%20&%20XML%20(2002)/Front%20matter.htm (2 von 13)03.09.2006 02:46:13 Front matter 5.5 Examples 5.6 Future Developments 5.7 Conclusions Chapter 6. XML Pointer Language 6.1 General Model 6.2 XPointer Forms 6.3 Functions 6.4 Using X