Definitive Xml Application Development

by Garshol, Lars Marius

• ISBN13: 9780130889027
• ISBN10: 0130889024
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr

Summary

In this book, leading XML developer Lars Marius Garshol covers every essential aspect of XML programming, from basic principles through advanced techniques, utilizing DOM, SAX, XSLT, XPath, schemas, and other key XML standards. Garshol presents scores of code examples based on Python, a cross-platform language that is exceptionally well suited for XML development. Garshol also presents new insights into XML application design and optimization, as well as complete sample applications Book jacket.

Author Biography

Lars Marius Garshol is a leading XML developer. He created xmlproc, a complete validating XML processor, helped design SAX and translated it to Python, and runs the Free XML Tools Web site, www.garshol.priv.no/download/xmltools. He is co-founder of Ontopia, a company that provides knowledge management solutions based on XML Topic Maps (XTM) and related technologies

Table of Contents

Part 1 Working with XML	2	(136)
XML and information systems	4	(38)
The XML processing model	42	(38)
Views of documents	80	(16)
Common processing tasks	96	(12)
Characters - the atoms of text	108	(30)
Part 2 Event-based processing	138	(256)
Event-based processing	140	(20)
Using XML parsers	160	(74)
SAX: an, introduction	234	(34)
Using SAX	268	(70)
Advanced SAX	338	(56)
Part 3 Tree-based processing	394	(126)
DOM: an introduction	396	(38)
Using DOM	434	(34)
Advanced DOM	468	(30)
Other tree-based APIs	498	(22)
Part 4 Declarative processing	520	(182)
XSLT: an introduction	522	(42)
XSLT in more detail	564	(74)
Using XSLT in applications	638	(54)
Architectural forms	692	(10)
Part 5 XML development in Java	702	(138)
SAX in Java	704	(50)
DOM in Java	754	(40)
Using XSLT in Java applications	794	(46)
Part 6 XML processing in depth	840	(212)
Other approaches to processing	842	(50)
Schemas	892	(36)
Creating XML	928	(40)
The tabproc framework	968	(26)
The RSS development kit	994	(58)
Part 7 Appendices	1052
Appendix A A lightning introduction to Python	1054
Appendix B Glossary of terms	1100
Appendix C Python XML packages	1108