=== Acronyms and Glossary ===


-- standard xml terms --
        
XML     
        eXtensible Markup Language
        Rules for a tree structure of information with embedded markup.
        It looks something like this:
            <fleet>
              <vehicle color="red">truck</vehicle>
              <vehicle color="blue">car</vehicle>
            </fleet>

DTD
        Document Type Definition
        Stuff like
            <!ELEMENT fleet   (vehicle*)>
            <!ELEMENT vehicle (#PCDATA)
            <!ATTLIST vehicle color #REQUIRED>
        that specifies the form of an xml file.
        
DOM     
        Document Object Model
        Maps an XML document into an stored internal tree structure with
        method calls for specific nodes, children, parents, etc.
        
SAX     
        Simple API for XML
        An event-based model for parsing XML.  You write handlers that get 
        called at the start of a tag, end of a tag, and so on.
        Particularly useful when you don't want to process the entire 
        XML tree.  There are two standards, versions 1 and 2. 
        Used particularly for big XML streams, when you don't want
        to remember the whole tree.

XPath   
        XML Path Language
        A string syntax for building addresses to the nodes of an XML tree.
        
XSL     
        eXtensible Stylsheet Language
        Specification of the semantics of an XML document.
        
XSLT    
        eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
        Rules for transforming one vocubulary into another.

-- apache axkit and cocoon --
        
AxKit   
        XML Application Server for Apache
        
XSP     
        eXtensible Server Pages - part of the Cocoon project,
        initially; a way to specify a system-ish command as XML 
        within something that will become a webpage.  
        Now also part of AxKit, among it's other webpage delivery systems.  
        Similar in idea to ASP or JSP.
        
AxPoint 
        An XML form for PDF slide-show presentations.
        Similar in idea to powerpoint presentations.
        Can be used within AxKit to deliver PDF on the fly.

XPathScript  - a language incorporating both Perl and XPath for
        doing XSLT-like transformations.  One way to use AxKit.


-- named xml formats --
        
SVG     
        Scalable Vector Graphics
        An XML format for describing 2-D pictures.

DocBook 
        Structured xml books.  
        Detailed XSL transformation stylesheets and DTD's available.

AxPoint
        Presentations (like PowerPoint) in xml that convert to pdf, 
        from the AxKit folks.

WAP
        Wireless Application Protocol - similar to HTTP but for handhelds

WML      
        Wireless Markup Language - similar to HTML but for handhelds

-- other ---

Sablotron
        an XMLST implementation