Description

Using a visual approach to demonstrate the XML code, XML: Your visual blueprint™ for building expert Web pages with CSS, XHTML, and XSLT offers visual learners a solid reference that employs straight forward examples to teach users to create Web sites with impact. XML (Extensible Markup Language) allows Web developers to enhance database connectivity, enrich pages with specialized data elements, and otherwise move beyond the limitations of HTML. This highly visual tutorial demonstrates over 100 different XML operations, from setting up styles with Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT) to migrating HTML websites to XHTML. "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips and high-resolution screen shots clearly illustrate each task while succinct explanations walk readers through the examples. Step-by-step, two-page lessons break topics into bite-sized modules that are easy to digest and the associated website contains all the code needed to follow the author's examples in the book.

From the Back Cover

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book, and you will discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 100 key XML techniques, including

• Choosing a text editor

• Adding entities and CDATA to XML documents

• Restricting the recurrence of elements

• Generating XML using Access® or Excel®

• Creating an XHTML transitional page

• Looping and sorting with XSLT

• Changing font and text color with CSS

• Applying styles with class or ID selectors

• Converting XML to XHTML using Dreamweaver®

• Debugging with Firebug

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips

• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules