Getting to Know XML - XML tutorial

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XML is a communication format for exchanging structured documents and data. Too often, an XML format is chosen arbitrarily during development, without much planning or design. Learn how to design a format less likely to require change and agile enough to incorporate new requirements with the simple addition of new extensions instead of full changes.

This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning XSL-FO and XHTML. Topics include CSS, HTML, PDF, XHTML, XSL-FO, XSLT

This tutorial describes:

Simple XML Elements with Pre-defined Data Types
Simple XML Elements with Extended Data Types
Complex XML Elements
Simple Content XML Elements
Empty XML Elements
Anomymous Data Types
Sample XSD File - dictionary.xsd

XML-RPC is the simplest XML-based protocol for exchanging information between computers.

In this tutorial you will learn what is XML-RPC and Why and How to use it.

XML-RPC is very easy to learn and to use.

Fortunately, due to its relative simplicity, there are no optical illusions associated with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets); all of the visual "trickery" in CSS is made possible with clear and concise style properties. CSS allows you to attach formatting styles to individual elements within an XML document. These styles are then used to determine how the elements in the document are rendered for display within a web browser. Even though the XML language doesn't inherently include any mechanism for defining how a document looks, CSS makes it possible to add a view to XML documents.
In this tutorial, you'll learn
- The basic structure and syntax of CSS
- How to create a basic CSS style sheet for an existing XML document
- How to control the layering of elements with CSS
- How to use margins and padding to control the spacing around and within elements
- How to format text using several different CSS style properties