University of Phoenix WEB/431 - The XAlphabet
The Basics
- XML - Extensible Markup Language
- XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
- XSL - Extensible Stylesheet Language
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- Schema - defines the structure of an XML document
- XSD - XML Schema Definition
- Namespace - differentiates between two nodes with the same name but coming from different sources
- XML DOM - XML Document Object Model
- DTD - Document Type Definition
These Make it Powerful
- XSLT - Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
- XPath - XML language that identifies parts of an XML document for processing
- XPointer - XPointer works somewhat like anchors in HTML, but allows much greater flexibility, allowing specific nodes to sets of nodes to be selected from a target document using XPath.
- XQuery - a set of syntax rules (language) for extracting information from XML documents. XQuery builds on XPath.
- XLink - An XML application that expands the way hyperlinks can be used, for example: bidirectional links and/or one link to connect many documents together
Specialty Tools
- SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol - a Remote Procedure Call over HTTP
- RSS - Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary
Coming Soon
- XSL/FO - Formatting Objects - a language for formatting XML documents
- XML Binary (aka "Efficient XML Interchange")
- XInclude - a way to merge different XML information sets
- XAG - XML Accessibility Guidelines