Xml and Java from Scratch

by Chase, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780789724762
• ISBN10: 0789724766
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Pearson P T R

Summary

With the help of XML and Java from scratch, you will build a Web site and application for ChaseWeb Furniture-a fictitious catalog furniture company. All of the information on products, prices, vendors, and so on, is rendered in XML. You'll learn how to display products on the company Web site, take orders, produce a paper catalog, and communicate with the external databases of vendors using XML. The from scratch format is designed to teach novice programmers the hows and whys of programming in the context of creating a functioning application.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Vendor Pages: Styling XML with Cascading Style Sheets	9	(46)
Product Pages: Transforming XML in the Browser Using XSL	55	(50)
Defining the Data Structure: Document Type Definitions, XML Schema, and Parsers	105	(48)
Getting Serious: XSL Processors and Server-Side Processing	153	(56)
Taking Orders: Manipulating Data with JDOM	209	(50)
Adjusting Inventory: Using Namespaces and More About DOM	259	(68)
Product Search: XQL	327	(24)
Updating Inventory: SQL Databases and SAX	351	(52)
Other Applications for XML (SOAP)	403	(70)
Index	473