XML Tutorial
Extensible Markup Language. A flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere. XML is a formal recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) similar to the language of today's Web pages, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
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XSL Tutorial
XSL : EXtensible Stylesheet Language, a language for specifying style sheets for XML documents..
XSL Transformation (XSLT) is used with XSL to describe how an XML document is transformed into another document.
Similar to CSS, it defines the specification for an XML document's presentation and appearance. Both CSS and XSL provide a platform-independent method for specifying the document's presentation style.
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XSLT Tutorial
XSLT : Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation.
It is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents.
XSLT is designed for use as part of XSL, which is a stylesheet language for XML.
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DTD Tutorial
DTD : Document Type Definition.
It is a document that describes the structure of a Web page written in XML.
The description of the structure and the rules a document must satisfy for an SGML or XML document type. The DTD comprises the formal declaration of the elements that make up a document, their mutual coherence, meaning and documentation as drawn up for a document type (or document or information model).
You can store a DTD at the beginning of a document or externally in a separate file.
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Schema Tutorial
Schema is a description of the structure and rules a document must satisfy for an XML document type.
XML Schema is XML-based alternative to DTD.
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XForms Tutorial
XForms is an XML format for the specification of user interfaces.
XForms Give<ul><li>Strong typing for easier input validation</li><li>XML format for input data</li><li>Much more internationalizable and localizable</li><li>Scriptless actions</li><li>More device independent</li></ul>
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XSL-FO Tutorial
XSL-FO : XSL Formatting Objects
It is an XML markup language for document formatting.
XSL-FO is part of XSL
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XML DOM Tutorial
DOM (Document Object Model) represents documents as a hierarchy of Node objects.
Some of these Node objects may have child nodes of various types, while others are 'leaf' nodes which can have nothing below them.
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XLink Tutorial
XLink : XML Linking Language
It allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources.
eXtended Links is a W3C Recommendation
( http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink )
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XQuery Tutorial
XQuery is the query language for XML.
It provides a mechanism to extract and manipulate data from XML documents or any data source that can be viewed as XML such as relational databases or office documents.
Just as SQL is a query language that queries relational tables to create new relational tables, XQuery queries XML documents to create new XML documents.
XQuery uses XPath syntax to address specific parts of an XML document.
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XPath Tutorial
XPath : XML Path Language
XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and Xpointer.
It also provides basic facilities for manipulation of strings, numbers and booleans.
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XPointer Tutorial
Xpointer - XML Pointer Language, is the language to be used as the basis for a fragment identifier for any URI reference that locates a resource of Internet media type <i>text/xml</i> or <i>application/xml</i>.
It has a string-based syntax.
XPointer consists of a description that comes after the # symbol in a URL.
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RDF Tutorial
RDF : Resource Description Framework.
RDF is a general framework for how to describe any Internet resource such as a Web site and its content.
It is a general framework for describing a Web site's metadata, or the information about the information on the site. It provides interoperability between applications that exchange machine-understandable information on the Web.
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SOAP Tutorial
SOAP : Simple Object Access Protocol .
SOAP is a lightweight XML based protocol . It is a standard for exchanging XML-based messages over a computer network, normally using HTTP.
SOAP consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses.
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WSDL Tutorial
WSDL : Web Services Description Language .
It is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information.
WSDL was developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM.
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RSS Tutorial
RSS : Really Simple Syndication
or
Rich Site Summary
It allows you to organize or syndicate your site content .
RSS files can be automatically updated.
It is written in XML-based formate.
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WAP Tutorial
WAP : Wireless Application Protocol
It is a secure specification that allows users to access information instantly via handheld wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers, two-way radios, smartphones and communicators.
WAP was conceived by four companies: Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Unwired Planet (today called Phone.com).
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Web Services Tutorial
Web Services define a platform-independent standard based on XML to communicate within distributed systems.
XML is used to tag the data.
SOAP is used to transfer the data.
WSDL is used for describing the services available.
UDDI is used for listing what services are available.
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