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Modularization of XHTML

Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com), Freelance Writer

Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nick has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, an Oracle instructor, and the Chief Technology Officer of an interactive communications company. He is the author of several books, including XML Primer Plus (Sams). He is also a partner in InterSection Unlimited, which specializes in creating Second Life content and applications. You can find him in-world as Chase Marellan.

Summary: In this tutorial, build your understanding of the modularization of XHTML. With this knowledge, you can use a subset of XHTML, or you can add your own tags to create your own markup language variants.

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Date: 23 Oct 2001
Level: Introductory
PDF: A4 and Letter (90 KB | 30 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About this tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates the creation of Memory Markup Language, or MemoryML, which is designed to be viewed by a fictional browser embedded in a device such as a video camera, video tape player, or DVD player.

The modularization of XHTML allows you to choose which XHTML modules to support in an application. You can supplement those modules, and thus create new markup languages that fit seamlessly with XHTML.

Prerequisites

You should have a thorough understanding of XML and at least a basic understanding of XHTML and how it is used. You should also understand XML validation and be familiar with Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and namespaces. The Resources section provides links to tutorials that can help you get up to speed in any of these areas.

You do not need any programming skills to understand this tutorial.

System requirements

This tutorial demonstrates the building of XHTML modules. To actually build these modules, you need only a text editor. To take it one step further and test your new modules, you need a validating parser, such as the Java APIs for XML Processing (JAXP) or Xerces. The Resources section lists several validating parsers.

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