XML, the start of a truly international future for the Web

Michel Goossens, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

goossens@cern.ch

Detailed table of contents

The quest for structured markup
HTML, its problems and the proposed solutions
XML: A set of Extensible Markup Languages
What is XML?
XML: A simple example
Document-level information
Logical structures
Physical structures
Validating and non-validating processors
A few simple example
The Unicode character set
XML namespaces
Stylesheet languages: XSL
The XPath language
The XSLT transformation language
Document strategies for the Web
Math on the Web, where are we today?
Batch translation: LaTeX2HTML
Batch translation bis: TeX4ht
On the fly conversion: tth
Partial conversion: idvi
``Online'' LaTeX : techexplorer
Equation browsing with Java and WebEQ
Introduction to MathML
MathML: presentation markup
MathML: content markup
MathML Examples
Other bits and pieces about MathML
General Conlusions

Last updated: November 15th 1999