XML Course Materials: Week 1

Materials used in the lecture

1. Examples of document markup:

   • The course syllabus: Marked up in Latex and rendered into PDF.
   • A vector graphics: Marked up in SVG and rendered in your browser.
   • A hypertext such as this page: Marked up in XHTML and rendered in your browser.
2. Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML, by Dave Raggett (W3C).
   Link: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/.
3. What is XML and Why Should You Care? by Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.).
   Link (HTML presentation): http://www.mulberrytech.com/papers/WhatIsXML/index.html.
   Link (PDF handout): http://www.mulberrytech.com/papers/WhatIsXML/WhatIsXML.pdf.

More resources on the Web

1. Dave Raggett's Introduction to HTML: More advanced features, by Dave Raggett (W3C).
   Link: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Advanced.html.
2. XML 及 SGML 名詞英漢翻譯表, by "Chinese XML Now!" (Computing Center, Academia Sinica).
   Link: http://xml.ascc.net/zh/utf-8/gloss.html.