XPointer allows you to walk the tree of nodes that an XML document is comprised of to address a specific node or nodes. XPointer expands the syntax set forth by XPath to provide a means of creating fragment identifiers, which are used to specify parts of documents. XPointer provides considerably more control over the referencing of XML document data than the hyperlink approach employed by HTML. For example, XPointer allows you to do things such as address an element with a given value within a list of elements of a given type. You use XPointer
Looking to help high-end handheld gadgets better adapt to the way video games and other graphics-oriented software are displayed, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday recommended Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG profiles be anointed standards.
SVG is an open file format that enables two-dimensional images to be displayed in XML pages on the Web. SVG enables the viewing of an image on a computer display of any size and resolution. SVG also allows text within images to be recognized as such, so that the text can be located by a
One of Tidy's biggest strengths is its portability. Versions of Tidy are available for over 15 platforms, including Windows, DOS, Mac OS, several flavours of UNIX/Linux, and BeOS. On top of that, Tidy is an Open Source application. If there isn't a version for your favourite operating system and you program in C++, you can download the source code (the building blocks of a program) and start hacking.
Tidy is also integrated with a number of text and HTML editors, including NoteTab Pro and HTML-Kit (for Windows), as well as Bluefish and Quanta (for
Short for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, a hybrid between HTML and XML specifically designed for Net device displays.
XHTML is a markup language written in XML; therefore, it is an XML application.
XHTML uses three XML namespaces (used to qualify element and attributes names by associating them with namespaces identified by URI references. Namespaces prevent identically custom-named tags that may be used in different XML documents from being read the same way), which correspond to three HTML 4.0 DTDs: Strict, Transitional, and