Create a maintainable extensible XML format - XML tutorial

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"Writing for the Web without linking is like eating without digesting".
In this tutorial, you'll learn
How to navigate through an XML document using XPath patterns;
How to build powerful expressions using XPath patterns and functions;
What technologies come together to support linking in XML;
How to reference document fragments with XPointer;
How to link XML documents with XLink;

DTD is described in XML 1.0 standard. In this tutorial basic DTD features are demonstrated on many examples which can be downloaded for off-line use.

Although XML is certainly a great storage format for shuttling data around the Web, most web applications store their data in relational databases. Knowing this, it stands to reason that many web applications will end up accessing data from a database yet interacting with it and sharing it with other applications as XML data. This has a lot do with the fact that XML can be used not only as a document format, but also as a way to represent data in a highly structured manner. In this tutorial, you learn how relational databases work and how you can integrate your XML applications with relational databases. More specifically, you find out how to export database data as XML code, as well as how to make SQL queries on a database and format the results in XML.

In this tutorial, you'll learn: more details about the XSLT style sheet language; process and sort nodes in an XSLT style sheet; use patterns and expressions in XSLT; apply XSLT style sheets to more challenging document transformation tasks

Discover how to improve the performance of your XML applications by using the Xerces-C++ parser properly. Xerces-C++ is an open source validating XML parser available from Apache. In this article, you'll learn the best ways to use the parser efficiently, and which features and properties affect its performance.