Use microformats API in Firefox 3.0 - XML tutorial

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Using XPath for pattern matching.

XSL is a more complex style sheet technology than CSS, so there is no way to thoroughly cover style sheets without things getting a little messy. Fortunately, as you learn in this tutorial, XSL is a technology that has considerably more to offer than CSS. XSL is designed to do a whole lot more than just format XML content for display purposes; it gives you the ability to completely transform XML documents. You learn in this tutorial how to transform XML documents into HTML documents that can be viewed in web browsers. Additionally, you should realize that the extra complexity in XSL is quite worth the learning curve because of its immense power and flexibility.

In this tutorial we will look at four of the XML specifications: XML Namespaces, XML Path Language (XPath), XML Pointer Language (XPointer), and XML Linking Language (XLink).

The structure of an XML document can be defined by two standards. The first standard is the XML specification, which defines the default rules for building all XML documents.

Web Services Description Language is the standard format for describing a web service in XML format.

In this tutorial you will learn what is WSDL and Why and How to use it.

WSDL is very easy to learn and very important for Web Services.