XML

• Slides as PDF File
• Slides as Online Presentation

• The importance of properly "marking up" your text has been understood for a long time: printers in the medival times struggled long and hard to define punctuation rules to make language less ambiguous. The following joke shows that different punctuation (i.e., "mark up") can vastly change the meaning of the same sequence of English words: An English professor wrote the words: "A woman without her man is nothing" on the blackboard and directed the students to punctuate it correctly.
• The men wrote: "A woman, without her man, is nothing."
• The women wrote: "A woman: without her, man is nothing."
• An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies, book website with lots of additional information (free sample chapter on scheme languages such as DTD and XML Scheme, examples, and sets of slides for each chapter in PDF format)
  
• Working with XML, a Java tutorial that introduces XML and relevant parsers (SAX, DOM) as well as JAXP
  
• Xerces2: An XML parser in Java, implementing SAX and DOM as well as JAXP (Java API for XML Processing). The parser also exists in a C++ implementation. Last but not least, there is a set of Perl APIs providing access to most of the functionality, based on the C++ implementation.
• How to display XML:
  
• Example 1 (using CSS): original XML document, CSS, displayed result
• Example 2 (using XLST): original XML document, XSL stylesheet, displayed result
  
• A set of XSLT tutorials (from simple to more detailed))