XML Course Materials: Week 2

Materials used in the lecture

1. This week's lecture slide.

2. Case Study: RSS 0.91

   • A sample RSS 0.91 XML document (taken from Netscape website).
   • The RSS 0.91 Document Type Definition (DTD).

3. Case Study: QAML

   • A sample QAML document (modified and taken from QAML 2.4 website).
   • The QAML Document Type Definition (DTD).

4. Case Study: XHTML (some part only)

   • For a sample XHTML document, study the text of XML in 10 points (by Bert Bos). Here is a local copy of the text. (Its document type declaration has been stripped off; This will force it into the "tree view" when loaded into Firefox.)
   • XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition), a W3C recommendatation.
   • HTML 4.01 Specification, a W3C recommendatation.

More resources on the Web

1. RSS 0.91:

   • The Web page My Netscape Network - RSS 0.91 Specification is now archived at the following link.
     Link: http://www.purplepages.ie/RSS/netscape/rss0.91.html.
   • The Netscape RSS 0.91 Specification is now archived at the following link.
     Link: http://www.rssboard.org/rss-0-9-1-netscape/.
     Link (DTD only): http://www.rssboard.org/rss-0.91.dtd.

2. QAML:

   • More information about the Question and Answer Markup Language (QAML) 2.4 can be found at the following link.
     Link: http://xml.ascc.net/en/utf-8/qaml-index.html.

3. XML Document Validation Tools:

   • Check out the The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome Web page. Download and install the software in your PC! The toolkit includes xmllint, a program for checkig the well-formedness and validity of XML documents.
     Link: http://xmlsoft.org/.
     Link (xmllint): http://xmlsoft.org/xmldtd.html.
   • Check out the online Markup Validation Service from W3C! It validates all sorts of XML documents!
     Link: http://validator.w3.org/.