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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 13
In the fifth paragraph (second paragraph under "Keep It Simple")

"... there will more and cheaper programs available ..."

should read:

"... there will be more and cheaper programs available ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 14
1st paragraph

The latest XML specification (in XML) is at <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml>.
The URL has been changed to reflect this.

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 27
In the second paragraph

"... but you many be curious to know ..."

should read:

"... but you may be curious to know ..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 28
last line of 3rd paragraph

Insert "with " before "style". Remove whitespace before period.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 43
2nd paragraph

The last sentence used to read:

"This is followed by a colon, then a namespace prefix (2),
an equals sign, and finally a URL in quotes (3)."

"namespace prefix" has been changed to "local name" to be consistent
with the description of Figure 2-10 on page 42.

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 48
penultimate paragraph, 3rd sentence

"The problem is how enter..."

should read:

"The problem is how to enter..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 50
IN PRINT: Figure 2-15

"&chap1---..."

SHOULD BE:
"&chap1;---..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 86
last line of Table 3-1

The "locates" column for psibling() used to read:

"A node from among the siblings of the current node."

It now reads:

"A node from among the preceding siblings of the current node."

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 93
6

The "Ascott Incident" example now reads:

We aren't constrained to the limits of the search string. The offset
is allowed to run off the edge and zoom through the remaining text in
the node. Searching in the text "The Ascott Venture" with the locator
string(1, "Ascott", 8, 7) finds the string "Venture".

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 94
2nd paragraph

An example got deleted somehow. Take out the last paragraph and
example in the section and say:

For example in a DocBook document with a <sect1> with id="s1", you can
create a range from the start of the first <para> to the start of the
second para <para> with the span:

id(s1).span(descendant(1,para),descendant(2,para))

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 123
7

In the last sentence:

...gets the color blue, not red.

now reads:

...gets the color red, not blue.

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 142
1st line

This line now reads "The selector .section can match ..."

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 156
last line of item IDREF

The example used to read:

<!ATTLIST related word ref IDREF #REQUIRED>

It now reads:

<!ATTLIST related-word ref IDREF #REQUIRED>

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 160
2/3 down the page

<!ENTITY judy "pictures/judy.jpeg" NDATA png>

Since the graphic file is a Portable Network Graphic (png) the filename
has been changed to "pictures/judy.png."

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 160
and [161], there were three examples starting with

<!DOCUMENT

They have been changed to read:

<!DOCTYPE

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 168
Example 5-2: The Checkbook DTD

The line:

#REQUIRED>

has been changed to:

#REQUIRED
number #CDATA #IMPLIED>

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 190
middle of page

The <occupant> entry for Filbert Fleegle was missing the </occupant> close.

Just before the last </occupants> in the example, a line
with "</occupant>" alone has been added.

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 197
In the code at the top of the page

"peanut-butter"

has been changed to:

"peanut butter"

to match Figure 6-1.

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 200
second line of the stylesheet, at the bottom of the page

The trailing slash has been removed from the uri that's the value of the
xmlns attribute .

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 206
Example 6-3,

Just after the first <blockquote>, the following should be inserted:

Find out which episode.

This is again because the XML of 6-1 uses the element <comment>, whose text
would be output by a default XSL rule, rather than a true XML comment.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 209
Table 6-3, at child::*

Change the text in the table cell to read:

This matches three nodes: the elements <comment>, <body>, and
<source>. Again, we can leave out the axis specifier and write it as
*.

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 213
line 3

The line:

<xsl:template match="@type">

now reads:

<xsl:template match="@friend">

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 214
about a dozen lines down

<xsl:template match="category[type='humor']">

now reads:

<xsl:template match="category[@type='humor']">

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 215
3rd sentence, 1st para. of "Default Rules" section

"...assume an implict <xsl:match-templates> element"

now reads:

"...assume an implicit <xsl:apply-templates> element"

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 225
Third line from bottom

The line:

"the input would look like this:"

now reads:

"the output would look like this:"

since the immediately preceding text shows the input document.

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 226
second code block

In:

<xsl:template match="quote">
<blockquote xsl:use-attribute-sets="common-atts">
<value-of select="."/>
...

The third line has been changed to:

<xsl:value-of select="."/>

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 252
last line on page

<xsl:number value-of=

has been changed to:

<xsl:number value=

The same error occurs on page 253 seven times.

 Anonymous  Jun 2001
Printed Page 301
see description

Example 8-2 ("dbfix")
The sub &space_after_start() (used twice) is undefined.

Here's the missing text. You can put it at the end of the example:

# space_after_start
# -----------------
# Add newlines after tag if it's in the list
#
sub space_after_start {
my( $name ) = @_;
my $buf = "";
if( defined( $space_after_start{ $name } )) {
my $spaces = $space_after_start{ $name };
for ( my $i=0; $i<$spaces; $i++ ) {
$buf .= "
";
}
}
return $buf;
}

 Anonymous