The only flaw I can make out is that the namespace prefix declaration should be in caps because everything in XML is case sensitive.
<HTML:A xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3c.org/TR/REC-html40/"; HREF="http:// www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014011341X/thenazieuthan-20">The Second World War</HTML:A> On Jan 26, 10:21 am, Historian <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new here and I hope someone will take a couple of minutes to help > me out. I'm trying to learn XML on my own and am building a web page > using XML to try to learn it. I've tried to insert an HTML link onto > my XML page and the browser reports I've got a parsing error and a > prefix is not bound to a namespace. At least that's one error, I may > have more, I'm not sure. > > What I'm trying to do is build a list of books for a web site and make > the title of each book be an HTML link. I thought I had the code > correct, but obviously not. Here's what I've done: > > <BOOK> > <HTML:A xmlns:html='http://www.w3c.org/TR/REC-html40/' > HREF='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/014011341X/ > thenazieuthan-20'> The Second World War</HTML:A> > <AUTHOR>John Keegan</AUTHOR> > <DESCRIPTION>This book is a pretty good one volume history of the war. > However it's obvious Mr. Keegan's preference for writing and most of > his knowledge lies in the European Theatre of the war. Also, as a > purely military historian, he does not include any information on the > Holocaust and very scant information on the Nazis ideological reasons > for the war at all.</DESCRIPTION> > </BOOK> > > What have I done wrong? I'd really appreciate any help someone can > give me. Right now XML is a bit overwhelming and I thought some "hands > on" experience in building a page would be the best way to learn it > since I usually do learn best that way. > > Thanks!
