July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
12h 30m
English
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Hacks #11-30
The collection of hacks in this chapter introduces you to different ways to edit and create XML documents. You’ll get more detailed introductions to editing XML with <oXygen/> [Hack #11] , withEmacs plus nXML [Hack #12] , and with Vim [Hack #13] . You’ll also get exposure to three Microsoft Office 2003 applications: Word [Hack #14] , [Hack #15] , and Access [Hack #16] .
Several hacks show you how to create XML from plain text [Hack #9] and [Hack #10] and from comma-separated values (CSV) [Hack #21] files. You’ll execute an XQuery [Hack #24] , and learn about encoding documents [Hack #27] and including text and documents with entities [Hack #6] and XInclude [Hack #26] .
Reminder: all the example files mentioned in this chapter are available from the file archive that can be downloaded from http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlhks/.
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