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Xml Web Documents from Scratch

by Liberty, Jesse

ISBN13: 9780789723161
ISBN10: 0789723166
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2000-03-01
Publisher: Pearson P T R

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1. Xml Web Documents from Scratch > ISBN13: 9780789723161

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Summary

Jesse Libertys XML Web Documents from Scratch is a road map to managing and publishing documents using XML and XSL. Concepts and techniques are taught and reinforced as readers create "BiblioTech," a Web-based book reader that displays the text of a book, provides a collapsible outline, and text search capabilities.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1

(5)

Getting Started with XML

5

(14)

Document Re-Purposing

5

(4)

Print Versus Online

6

(1)

Re-Purposing

7

(1)

Real-World Examples

7

(1)

How This Book Came About

8

(1)

The Design Pattern

8

(1)

What Is XML and Why Do I Care?

9

(1)

XML In Context

10

(3)

XML Simplifies SGML

11

(1)

What Is XML Like?

12

(1)

XML Tag Attributes

12

(1)

What Is XSL?

12

(1)

Analysis and Design of Our Project

13

(3)

Biblio Tech

13

(1)

Use-Case Analysis

13

(1)

Visualization

14

(2)

A Journey of Small Steps

16

(1)

What I Won't Show in the Project

16

(1)

Next Steps

17

(2)

Moving from HTML to XHTML

19

(34)

Analysis

19

(3)

Conceptualization

20

(1)

Use Cases

20

(2)

Converting to HTML

22

(8)

From Word to HTML

23

(4)

Well-Formed HTML

27

(1)

Fixing Up the HTML

28

(1)

Documents and DOMs

29

(1)

DOMs Versus DOMs

30

(1)

Converting Word to XHTML

30

(13)

Inside Word2XHTML

36

(6)

Recursion

42

(1)

Writing the Close Tag

42

(1)

Stepping Through the Code

43

(8)

Examining the Input

43

(6)

Habeas Corpus

49

(1)

Let `Er Rip

50

(1)

Next Steps

51

(2)

Validating the Document with the Document Type Definition

53

(22)

From XHTML to XML

53

(2)

Making the Structure Explicit

54

(1)

Ensuring the Validity of XML Documents

55

(1)

Updating The DTD

55

(1)

Validating Parser

56

(1)

Goals of the Transformation

56

(12)

The Constraints We Want to Enforce

57

(1)

Removing HTML We Don't Need

57

(1)

Marking Code Lines

58

(6)

Spaceruns and Tabs

64

(1)

Marking Sidebars and Notes

65

(1)

Breaking Out Sections

66

(2)

Passing Through the Remaining HTML

68

(1)

Creating the DTD

68

(6)

Parameter Entities

71

(3)

What the DTD Has Told Us

74

(1)

Next Steps

74

(1)

Transformation with XSL---eXtensible Stylesheet Language

75

(26)

Inputs and Outputs

75

(1)

Invoking the Methods

76

(3)

Loading the XSL

79

(1)

XSL In Detail

80

(20)

Namespace

84

(1)

Templates, Filters, and Patterns

84

(2)

Template Matching

86

(2)

Finding Unknown Tags

88

(2)

Building the DOM

90

(1)

Parsing the XSL

91

(8)

Running XHTML to XML

99

(1)

Next Steps

100

(1)

Manipulating the Document Object Model

101

(32)

Examining the Intermediate File

101

(3)

Examining the Intermediate File in Detail

104

(1)

Creating Sections

104

(2)

The Definition of a Section

105

(1)

XHTML to XML Transformation---Second Step

106

(4)

The Object-Oriented Perspective

109

(1)

The Document and the DOM

109

(1)

Collecting Sections: Strategy

110

(1)

Collecting Sections: Implementation

111

(4)

Creating the Section ID

114

(1)

Creating a Processing Instruction

115

(1)

Creating the Hierarchy

115

(7)

Creating the Top Level Element

116

(4)

Locating Elements

120

(1)

Siblings and Aunts

121

(1)

Code Blocks

122

(10)

Inserting the New Element

127

(3)

Notelines

130

(2)

Next Steps

132

(1)

Storing, Rendering, and Displaying The Stories

133

(34)

Finding Stories from the Inside Out

134

(1)

Start with the D-Level Stories

134

(1)

Implementing Persistence

135

(3)

Writing the Stories to the Database

138

(4)

Inserting the Story

140

(2)

Creating the Database

142

(4)

What We've Accomplished

146

(1)

Displaying the Story

146

(2)

Converting to HTML

147

(1)

Retrieving a Story from the Database

148

(4)

Instantiating the Input XML DOMDocument

150

(1)

Using XSL to Render HTML

150

(2)

The XML to HTML Stylesheet

152

(1)

Implementing the XSL Transformation

152

(14)

Getting Started

156

(1)

The HTML Header

156

(1)

Handling Sections

157

(1)

Rendering Code

158

(1)

Handling Notes

159

(1)

Inline Code

160

(1)

Vanilla HTML

161

(1)

Spaceruns and Tabs

161

(2)

Special Characters

163

(1)

Handling Production Directives

164

(1)

The Document Summary

164

(2)

Next Steps

166

(1)

Creating Components Using XML and XSL with DHTML

167

(32)

Strategy

168

(1)

Re-Creating the Hierarchy

169

(1)

ShowTOC.ASP

169

(5)

Transforming the XML to the Table of Contents

174

(5)

Building the TOC in HTML

174

(5)

Creating the HTML from XML Using XSL

179

(6)

Creating the Listing Elements

183

(2)

Skinning Cats

185

(12)

From XML to XML

185

(7)

From XML to HTML

192

(5)

Next Steps

197

(2)

Building the Application and Adding Missing Functionality

199

(30)

The Application

199

(6)

Listing Stories

200

(2)

Down-Level Browsers and Clipping Code

202

(3)

Examining the Application in Detail

205

(10)

StoryList.asp

207

(3)

Implementing XSL for Down-Level Browsers

210

(5)

Implementing CodeBlocks

215

(13)

Creating Codeblocks in HTML

215

(4)

Creating the HTML with XSL

219

(9)

Next Steps

228

(1)

Using XSL Helper for Creation and Maintenance of XSL Documents

229

(22)

Facilitating XSL Creation

229

(2)

Implementing XSL Helper

231

(9)

What Refresh() Does

236

(1)

How Refresh() Works

236

(1)

Pick Up the Parameters

237

(1)

Display the Input XML and the XSL Stylesheet

237

(2)

Do the Transformations

239

(1)

Display the Results

240

(1)

Displaying XML with HTML

240

(7)

Leaf Elements

243

(1)

Elements with Descendents

244

(1)

Matching Processing Instructions

245

(1)

Matching Other Elements

246

(1)

Matching Attributes

246

(1)

The Top of the Stylesheet

247

(1)

Examining the Results

247

(2)

Editing and Saving Changes

249

(1)

Next Steps

250

(1)

Review of Technologies and Techniques

251

(6)

A Look Back at What We've Done

251

(3)

Transforming from HTML to XHTML

252

(1)

Transforming from XHTML to XML

252

(1)

Using XML and XSL to Display the Stories

253

(1)

Client-Side XSL

254

(1)

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

254

(2)

Next Steps

256

(1)

Appendix A Recommended Reading

257

(4)

Visual Basic

257

(1)

ASP

257

(1)

JavaScript

257

(1)

ADO

258

(1)

Transact SQL & SQL Server

258

(1)

MTS, COM & COM+, Enterprise Applications

258

(1)

ActiveX and ATL

258

(1)

Web Design and User Interface Design

258

(1)

XML

259

(1)

Distributed Internet Applications

259

(1)

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Patterns

259

(2)

Index

261

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