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By Steve Hoenisch
Complex technical documentation presented on the Internet calls for user interfaces or navigational options that empower readers to quickly gain access to the information that suits their needs. If your readers are viewing documents in an Internet Explorer-only environment, you can let...
Jun. 20, 2002 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 9,262
By Steve Hoenisch
The power and elegance of XSLT - the Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations - stems from its ability to transform XML documents into other output formats like HTML, fulfilling one of the original promises of XML: separating content from presentation. XSLT is particularly po...
Feb. 22, 2002 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 10,194
By Steve Hoenisch
You've probably heard the propaganda by now: XML blesses you with a way to separate content from presentation. Separation in turn yields productive gains over HTML and other data formats used to manage content. In a process sometimes called single sourcing, the content of an XML...
Dec. 28, 2001 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 9,183  Replies: 2
By Steve Hoenisch
Introductions to XML all too often ignore the power of the attribute. It gets neglected in favor of the element's ability to capture the structure of a document or the meaning of content. But in developing flexible, reusable document models and in capturing metainformation about struct...
Nov. 1, 2001 12:00 AM EST  Reads: 11,947
By Steve Hoenisch
No, the abbreviation DTD is not etymologically related to a similar abbreviation from medical science, namely, DTs (or delirium tremens), a violent delirium with tremors, which is induced by the prolonged use of alcohol. Though in absorbing the intricacies of DTDs and trying to develop...
Aug. 17, 2001 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 10,502  Replies: 1
By Steve Hoenisch
This month's tutorial, the second in a series, picks up where last month's left off - on the path toward publishing your résumé on the Internet as an XML document. Last month (XML-J, Vol. 2, issue 5) I presented an overview of XML, described its basic building blocks, and demonstrated ...
Jun. 3, 2001 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 11,036
By Steve Hoenisch
XML. And XSLT, DTD, XPath, XSL-FO, XLink, XPointer, SAX, and DOM. To the uninitiated, all the talk about XML quickly dissolves into an alphabet soup of W3C recommendations, abbreviations, and acronyms.
May. 22, 2001 12:00 AM EDT  Reads: 9,059