VERVET TECHNOLOGIES




XML Pro

Quick Start Guide


Copyright © 1998 Vervet Technologies. All Rights Reserved




Part Number: 0045-5601
Rev. Number: 1.0
Publication Date: November 1998



Vervet Technologies
1523 Main Street
Bloomington, IN 65473
(812)-856-5270





Table of Contents

Preface

How This Guide is Organized

Guide Conventions

1. Menus and Tool Bar

1.1 File Menu

1.2 Edit Menu

1.3 Tools Menu

1.4 Options Menu

1.5 Help Menu

1.6 Pop-up Menu

1.7 Tool Menu

2. Elements, Attributes and Entities

2.1 Element Wizard

2.1.1 Creating a New Element Using Element Wizard

2.1.2 Deleting an Existing Element Type Using Element Wizard

2.2 The Element Palette

2.2.1 Inserting Elements Using the Element Palette

2.2.2 Sorting Elements

2.3 Elements in the Document

2.4 Inserting Elements

2.5 Deleting Elements

2.6 Moving Elements

2.7 Attributes

2.8 Attribute Wizard

2.8.1 Creating New Attributes

2.8.2 Deleting Existing Attributes

2.8.3 Attributes with DTD's

2.8.4 Attributes in the Document

2.8.5 Assigning Values to Attributes

2.8.6 How Atributes are Written

2.8.7 Viewing Attributes in Document Tree

2.9 Entities

2.9.1 The Entity Palette

2.10 Adding an Entity

2.11 Removing an Entity

3. Document Type Definitions, PCDATA, CDATA & Comments

3.1 Validation

3.1.1 DTD Errors

3.1.2 Handling Invalid Documents

3.2 Naming the DTD

3.3 The DTD Location

3.3.1 The Public String

3.4 Removing an Association

3.5 PCDATA

3.5.1 Adding PCDATA

3.5.2 Removing PCDATA

3.5.3 Editing PCDATA

3.6 CDATA

3.6.1 Adding PCDATA

3.6.2 Removing PCDATA

3.7 Comments

3.7.1 Adding Comments

3.7.2 Removing Comments


List of Figures

Figure 1.1 Menu Bar

Figure 1.2 Tool Bar

Figure 2.1 Element Wizard

Figure 2.2 Attribute Wizard

Figure 2.3 Attribute Pane

Figure 3.1 Associate DTD Dialog Box


Preface

This guide provides information on getting started with and using XML Pro. This guide is for anyone that creates or edits XML (Xtensible Markup Language) documents and assumes the user has some familiarity with XML.


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How This Guide Is Organized

This guide contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1: Menus and Tool Bar

Chapter 2: Elements, Attributes and Entities

Chapter 3: Document Type Definition, PCDATA, CDATA & Comments


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Guide Conventions

Main chapter topics or important concepts are displayed in bold text.

Menu commands or buttons are displayed in italic text.

Error messages are displayed in courier text.


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