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XML Unleashed
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XML Unleashed

by Michael Morrison
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
22h 3m
English
Sams
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Chapter 20. Scripting XML

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As you know, XML is a metalanguage for marking up documents containing structured data. As a data representation language, XML doesn't do much by itself. In order to do interesting things with XML, you must use it in the context of an enabling technology, such as a scripting language. Scripting languages provide a very handy means of developing interactive Web-based applications that are driven by XML data. The main requirement is that a scripting language must be able to access the logical structure of XML documents, which is essentially an XML tree.

This chapter will introduce you to XML scripting, which ...

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