Beginning XML 2nd Edition

Chapters written by professional programmers discuss XML specification and navigation, linking, XSLT, presentation technologies, databases, messaging, and B2B applications.

David Hunter is a Senior Technical Consultant for CGI, the largest Canadian independent information technology (IT) services firm and the fifth largest in North America.

Introduction	p. xxv
Introduction	p. 1
What Is XML?	p. 3
Of Data, Files, and Text	p. 3
So What Is XML?	p. 7
What Is the World Wide Web Consortium?	p. 18
Where Is XML Used, and Where Can It Be Used?	p. 20
Summary	p. 21
Exercise Questions	p. 21
Well-Formed XML	p. 23
Parsing XML	p. 23
Tags and Text and Elements, Oh My!	p. 24
Attributes	p. 38
Comments	p. 44
Empty Elements	p. 47
XML Declaration	p. 49
Processing Instructions	p. 54
Illegal PCDATA Characters	p. 57
Errors in XML	p. 62
Summary	p. 63
Exercise Questions	p. 63
XML Namespaces	p. 65
Why Do We Need Namespaces?	p. 65
How XML Namespaces Work	p. 69
What Exactly Are URIs?	p. 82
When Should I Use Namespaces?	p. 86
Summary	p. 87
Exercise Questions	p. 87
Validation	p. 89
Document Type Definitions	p. 91
Running the Samples	p. 92
Sharing Vocabularies	p. 101
Anatomy of a DTD	p. 102
Developing DTDs	p. 145
DTD Limitations	p. 146
Summary	p. 147
Exercise Questions	p. 147
XML Schemas	p. 149
Benefits of XML Schemas	p. 150
Do We Still Need DTDs?	p. 151
XML Schemas	p. 151
Creating a Schema from Multiple Documents	p. 207
Documenting XML Schemas	p. 216
Summary	p. 219
Exercise Questions	p. 220
RELAX NG	p. 221
Basic RELAX NG Patterns	p. 222
Combining and Reusing Patterns and Grammars	p. 234
Additional RELAX NG Features	p. 247
Useful Resources	p. 255
Summary	p. 256
Exercise Questions	p. 256
Processing	p. 257
XPath	p. 259
Ways of Looking at an XML Document	p. 260
Serialized Document	p. 260
Visualizing XPath	p. 261
Abbreviated and Unabbreviated Syntax	p. 267
XPath 1.0 Axes	p. 268
XPath 1.0 Functions	p. 282
Predicates	p. 284
Structure of XPath Expressions	p. 285
Looking Forward to XPath 2.0	p. 287
Summary	p. 288
Exercise Questions	p. 288
XSLT	p. 291
What Is XSLT?	p. 291
How Does an XSLT Processor Work?	p. 292
Running the Examples	p. 293
Procedural versus Declarative Programming	p. 295
Foundational XSLT Elements	p. 297
Getting Information from the Source Tree	p. 301
Influencing the Output with the [left angle bracket]xsl:output[right angle bracket] Element	p. 309
Conditional Processing	p. 310
The [left angle bracket]xsl:for-each[right angle bracket] Element	p. 314
The [left angle bracket]xsl:sort[right angle bracket]Element	p. 316
XSLT Modes	p. 318
XSLT Variables and Parameters	p. 323
Named Templates and the [left angle bracket]xsl:call-template[right angle bracket] Element	p. 325
XSLT Functions	p. 325
Looking Forward to XSLT 2.0	p. 326
Summary	p. 326
Exercise Questions	p. 326
Databases	p. 329
XQuery, the XML Query Language	p. 331
Why XQuery?	p. 332
XQuery Tools	p. 335
Some XQuery Examples	p. 338
The XQuery Data Model	p. 352
XQuery Expressions	p. 353
XQuery Functions	p. 360
Using Parameters with XQuery	p. 361
Proprietary Extensions to XQuery	p. 362
Looking Ahead	p. 363
Summary	p. 364
Exercise Questions	p. 364
XML and Databases	p. 365
The Need for Efficient XML Data Stores	p. 365
Approaches to Storing XML	p. 368
Using Native XML Databases	p. 369
XML in RDBMS	p. 380
Choosing a Database to Store XML	p. 399
Looking Ahead	p. 399
Summary	p. 399
Exercise Questions	p. 400
Programming	p. 401
The XML Document Object Model (DOM)	p. 403
What Is an XML Document Object Model For?	p. 403
The Document Object Model at the W3C	p. 405
Two Ways to View DOM Nodes	p. 406
Overview of the XML DOM	p. 407
Tools to Run the Examples	p. 408
The Node Object	p. 412
The Document Interface	p. 434
How the XML DOM Is Used in InfoPath 2003	p. 436
Summary	p. 437
Exercise Questions	p. 438
Simple API for XML (SAX)	p. 439
What Is SAX and Why Was It Invented?	p. 439
Where to Get SAX	p. 441
Receiving SAX Events	p. 442
Good SAX and Bad SAX	p. 474
Consumers, Producers, and Filters	p. 475
Other Languages	p. 475
Summary	p. 476
Exercise Questions	p. 476
Communication	p. 479
RSS and Content Syndication	p. 481
Syndication and Meta Data	p. 481
Working with News Feeds	p. 496
A Simple Aggregator	p. 498
Useful Resources	p. 528
Summary	p. 529
Exercise Questions	p. 530
Web Services	p. 531
What Is an RPC?	p. 531
RPC Protocols	p. 533
The New RPC Protocol: Web Services	p. 535
Taking a REST	p. 549
The Web Services Stack	p. 552
Summary	p. 557
Exercise Questions	p. 557
SOAP and WSDL	p. 559
Laying the Groundwork	p. 559
The New RPC Protocol: SOAP	p. 562
Basic SOAP Messages	p. 568
More Complex SOAP Interactions	p. 576
Defining Web Services: WSDL	p. 587
Summary	p. 598
Exercise Questions	p. 599
Display	p. 601
XHTML	p. 603
Separating Style from Content	p. 604
Learning XHTML 1.0	p. 605
Modularized XHTML	p. 622
Summary	p. 626
Exercise Questions	p. 627
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	p. 629
Why Style Sheets?	p. 630
Introducing CSS	p. 631
Using CSS with XHTML versus Other XML Vocabularies	p. 637
Attaching the Style Sheet to an XML Document	p. 637
Selectors	p. 638
Using CSS for Layout of XML Documents	p. 639
Laying Out Tabular Data	p. 656
Links in XML Documents	p. 658
Images in XML Documents	p. 662
Using CSS to Add Content to Documents	p. 663
Attribute Content	p. 666
Summary	p. 668
Exercise Questions	p. 669
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)	p. 671
What Is SVG?	p. 671
Getting Started	p. 674
Tangram: A Simple Application	p. 688
The SVG Specification	p. 702
Useful Resources	p. 706
Summary	p. 706
Exercise Questions	p. 707
XForms	p. 709
How Does XForms Improve on HTML Forms?	p. 709
XForms Tools	p. 710
An Illustrative XForms Example	p. 714
XForms Form Controls	p. 722
XForms Model Item Properties	p. 732
XForms Events	p. 737
The XForms Action Module	p. 737
Commercial Alternatives to XForms	p. 741
Summary	p. 743
Exercise Questions	p. 743
Case Studies	p. 745
Case Study 1: .NET XML Web Services	p. 747
The XML Web Service	p. 747
Consuming the Web Service	p. 757
Summary	p. 768
Case Study 2: XML and PHP	p. 771
Elementary Programming in PHP	p. 772
Basic Information about PHP	p. 773
Building a Program	p. 787
Useful Resources	p. 797
Summary	p. 798
Appendixes	p. 799
Exercise Solutions	p. 801
The XML Document Object Model	p. 857
XPath 1.0 Reference	p. 871
XSLT 1.0 Reference	p. 883
XML Schema Element and Attribute Reference	p. 911
Schema Data Types Reference	p. 941
Index	p. 961
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