Introduction to XML for Documentation

1-day course

• The philosophy of XML, including:
  • Structured documents are natural and familiar
  • Generic markup enables reuse, interchange, and ease of editing
  • Advantages of separating structure and content
• XML syntax, including:
  • Document types and document instances
  • DTDs
  • Elements, attributes, tags, and entities
  • Markup minimization
  • Use of white space
• HTML as an application of XML
• Relationship of XML and SGML