Regular expression character types Character Type Description \d A digit from 0 to 9 \D A nondigit character \w A word character (an upper- or lowercase letter, a digit, or an underscore (_) \W A no-word character \b A boundary around a word (a text string of word characters) \B the absence of a boundary Read the full article...
Looking at this comprehensive list gives you an idea of the level of granularity in XML. There is a data specification for everything, even spaces! String Data Types Data Type Description xs:string A text string containing all legal characters from the ISO/IEC character set, including all white space characters xs:normalizedString A text string in which Read the full article...
Here is a quick code reference for some common character and entity references. Symbol Character Reference Entity Reference Description © © © Copyright symbol ® ® ® Registered trademark symbol ™ ™ ™ Ttrademark symbol < < < Less than symbol > > > Greater than symbol & & & Ampersand "  " Double Read the full article...
Vocabularies XML Vocabulary Description Channel Definition Format (CDF) Automatic delivery of information from Web publishers to PCs, PDAs, cell phones, and other information devices Chemical Markup Language (CML) Coding of molecular and chemical information Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) HTML written as an XML application Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Presentation and evaluation of mathematical equations Read the full article...
Uniform Resource Identifier URL Uniform Resource Locator http://www.jacksonelect.com URN Uniform Resource Name urn:NID:NSS NID is the namespace identifier Example: urn:isbn:0-619-01969-7 NSS is a text string specific to that namespace NID indicates how to interpret the text string in the NSS
XML Declaration <?xml version="version number" encoding="encoding type" standalone="yes|no" ?> Term Description Default value Version number the version of the XML specification being used in the document 1.0 Encoding type identifies the character set used in the document UTF-8 Standalone attribute indicates whether the document contains any references to external files. If so, such references Read the full article...
This tutorial needs work! For now, it's just a bunch of data we are going to use when we write it. DOM Levels DOM Description Browser Support DOM Level 0 DOM Level 0 is roughly equivalent to the programming model developed in the mid 1990's by Netscape Navigator 3.0 and Internet Explorer 3.0 for use Read the full article...