Book description
XML Unleashed is a complete and comprehensive reference for sophisticated Web developers that covers every possible use of XML, from creating Web documents to building sophisticated Web applications. It covers all aspects of XML technology, from DTDs, XSL, and X Pointers to manipulating XML with Java and JavaScript. See hundreds of professional programming techniques as well as code for more than 15 real-world XML applications involving e-commerce, database access, Web management, real estate, and healthcare. This book also includes reference material on SMIL, the XML-based language for Web multimedia.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Lead Author
- About the Contributing Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Introduction
- Defining XML Documents
- Formatting XML Documents
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Processing XML Documents
- XML Processing Basics
- Parsing XML with Java
- Parsing XML with C++
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Utilizing the Document Object Model (DOM)
- W3C and the XML DOM
- Document Object Models
- Document Trees and Parse Trees
- W3C DOM Basics
- DOM Interfaces
- Nodes and Objects
- Accessing Nodes in DOM
- Data Types Returned by DOM Methods
- The Document Interface
- The DocumentFragment Interface
- The Node Interface
- The NodeList Interface
- The NamedNodeMap Interface
- The CharacterData Interface
- The Attr Interface
- The Element Interface
- The Minor DOM Interfaces
- Implementing DOM
- Adding DOM Support to Applications
- Scripting and DOM
- DOM Support in Gecko
- Saving Documents Persistently
- Summary
- Working with the SAX API in Java
- XML and the WEB
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Manipulating Data with XML
- The XML Data Source Object (DSO)
- Using XSL Patterns and XQL
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Accessing Databases with XML and ASP
- Uses of XML in Database Management Systems
- Personal Web Server (PWS) and Active Server Pages (ASP)
- The Native ASP Objects
- The Scripting Objects
- ActiveX and DOM Objects
- Understanding Databases
- Connecting to a Database with ASP
- Reading Data into an XML Stream
- Using XML as a Data Store
- Accessing Data from an XML Data Store
- XML vs. RDBMS
- Summary
- Linking Business Data with WIDL
- EDI and XML
- XML Tools
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Exploring XML Vocabularies
- Making Headlines with XMLNews
- Integrating Multimedia Objects with SMIL
- Pushing Web Content with CDF
- Describing Vector Graphics with VML and SVG
- Virtual Reality and 3DML
- Mathematically Speaking with MathML
- Managing Privacy with P3P
- Listing Real Estate with RELML
- Managing Human Resources with HRMML
- Interactive Speech and VoxML
- Appendixes
- Index
Product information
- Title: XML Unleashed
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 1999
- Publisher(s): Sams
- ISBN: 9780672315145
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