Chapter Summaries
To aid you in exploring this tool kit, here is a chapter-by-chapter guide to what you'll find in it.
Chapter 1, Introduction: You're reading it.
Chapter 2, Converting XML to CSV: This chapter presents a very basic approach for converting an XML document to a CSV format file. I start with this topic for two reasons: (1) CSV is still the most common universal format used by desktop applications, and (2) reading an XML document is a bit easier than writing one, so we'll start with the easy stuff first. This chapter covers the basic techniques for reading and parsing XML files using the DOM, so it is a foundation chapter for developers. The example file used is a generic address book listing, since it is most amenable to the type ...
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