XML in a Nutshell
Elliotte Rusty
Harold
W. Scott
Means
Introducing XML
XML as a Document Format
XML as a "better" HTML
Introducing XML
XML as a Document Format
XML is first and foremost a document format. It was always intended
for web pages, books, scholarly articles, poems, short stories,
reference manuals, tutorials, texts, legal pleadings, contracts,
instruction sheets, and other documents that human beings would
read. Its use as a syntax for computer data in applications like
syndication, order processing, object serialization, database
exchange and backup, electronic data interchange, and so forth is
mostly a happy accident.
SGML's Legacy
TEI
DocBook
DocBook
is an SGML application designed for new documents, not old ones.
It's especially common in computer documentation. Several
O'Reilly books have been written in DocBook including
Norm Walsh and Leonard Muellner's
DocBook: The Definitive
Guide. Much of the Linux Documentation Project
(LDP) corpus is written in DocBook.
XML on the Web
SGML, 8, 89
DocBook, 95-98
TEI (Text Encoding Initiative), 92-95
Text Encoding Initiative
TEI