Hour 24: CSS and XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has become one of the buzzwords of the late 1990s and early 21st Century. Hailed as the next step in the evolution of the Web, XML promises to shake up the way we think about the design of access to information. The knowledge you've gained about using CSS with HTML will serve you well if you go on to write XML documents because CSS and XML complement each other.

In this hour, you'll learn

What XML is and how it is used
How an XML-based language is defined
How Cascading Style Sheets can be used to style an XML document
Which styles are most useful in creating the presentation style for an XML document
What XHTML is and how Cascading Style Sheets are used with XHTML
How other XML-based languages, such as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), use CSS

Sample Code

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Listing 24.1 [XML]
Listing 24.2 [XML DTD]
Listing 24.3 [XML]
Listing 24.4 [CSS]
Listing 24.1 with style sheet 24.4 [XML]
Listing 24.5 [CSS]
Listing 24.1 with style sheets 24.4 and 24.5 [XML]
Listing 24.6 [CSS]
Listing 24.3 with style sheets 24.4, 24.5, and 24.6

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