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Professional XML (Programmer to Programmer)

ISBN: 0471777773
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 215

Authors: Bill Evjen, Kent Sharkey, Thiru Thangarathinam, Michael Kay, Alessandro Vernet, Sam Ferguson

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• Table of Contents
• Back Cover
• Professional XML
• Introduction
• Who Should Read This Book?
• What This Book Covers
• Conventions
• Source Code
• Errata
• http:www.p2p.wrox.com
• Part I: XML Basics
• Chapter 1: XML Syntax
• XML Syntax and Rules
• XML Namespaces
• Summary
• Chapter 2: XML Editors
• Visual Studio .NET 2003
• Visual Studio 2005
• Altova XMLSpy 2006
• Stylus Studio 2006
• Oxygen XML Editor 6.2
• Other XML Tools
• Summary
• Part II: Presentation
• Chapter 3: XHTML and CSS
• Understanding CSS
• Using Microformats
• Summary
• Resources
• Chapter 4: XSL-FO
• The Composition of XSL
• XSL-FO Overview
• XSL-FO Basics
• Summary
• Part III: Defining Structure
• Chapter 5: Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
• Internal DTDs
• External DTDs
• Building Your Own DTD
• Using XML Tools to Create the DTD
• DTD Validation
• Summary
• Chapter 6: XML Schemas
• The Issues with DTDs
• Building the Root XML Schema Document
• Declaring Elements
• Putting XML Schema Document Together
• Commenting XML Schemas
• XML Schema Tools
• Summary
• Chapter 7: RELAX NG
• Defining a RELAX NG Schema
• Declaring Elements
• RELAX NG Tools
• RELAX NG Compact
• Summary
• Resources
• Part IV: XML as Data
• Chapter 8: XSLT
• XSLT Syntax
• Executing XSLT
• Changes with XSLT 2.0
• Generating Output with XSLT
• Debugging XSLT
• Summary
• Resources
• Chapter 9: XPath
• Major Features of XPath
• Lessons from the Trenches
• XPath in Java, .NET, and PHP
• Tools for XPath
• Summary
• References
• Chapter 10: XQuery
• What Is XQuery?
• A Simple XQuery Example
• Enclosed Expressions
• FLWOR Expressions
• XQuery Functions
• XQuery in Java
• XQuery in Relational Databases
• Summary
• Chapter 11: XML in the Data Tier
• Relational Databases
• XML Databases
• Other Databases
• Summary
• Resources
• Part V: Programming XML
• Chapter 12: XML Document Object Model (DOM)
• What Is DOM?
• XML Validation Using XML DOM
• Summary
• Chapter 13: Simple API for XML (SAX)
• Introducing XML Parsing
• SAX Architecture
• SAX Packages and Classes
• Searching in an XML File
• Writing XML Contents Using SAX
• XML Validation Using SAX
• Advantages and Disadvantages of SAX
• Summary
• Chapter 14: Ajax
• XMLHttpRequest
• The DOM
• Putting It All Together
• Ajax Libraries
• Ajax Resources
• Summary
• Chapter 15: XML and .NET
• Deserializing XML
• XmlWriter
• XmlReader
• Reading XML Using XPathDocument
• XML in ASP.NET 2.0
• Summary
• Chapter 16: XML and Java
• Reading and Writing XML
• XML Tree Models
• Summary
• Chapter 17: Dynamic Languages and XML
• Perl
• Python
• Ruby
• Summary
• Resources
• Part VI: XML Services
• Chapter 18: RSS and Atom
• What Is RSS?
• Specifications
• What Is Atom?
• Reading RSS and Atom
• Writing RSS and Atom
• Summary
• Resources
• Chapter 19: Web Services
• The Composition of Web Services
• Building Web Services with C
• Building Web Services with Java
• Consuming Web Services with C
• Consuming Web Services with Java
• Caching Web Services
• Asynchronous Consumption of Web Services
• Summary
• Chapter 20: SOAP and WSDL
• The Basics of SOAP
• Looking Closely at the SOAP Specification
• Tracing SOAP Messages
• Working with SOAP Headers
• Defining Web Services Using WSDL
• Summary
• Chapter 21: Advanced Web Services
• Expanding on a Foundation
• Web Services Framework-The Paper
• WS-I.org
• Extending XML Web Services
• WS- Specifications
• Looking at Microsoft s Web Services Enhancements 3.0
• Summary
• Chapter 22: REST
• Accessing REST Services
• Creating REST Services
• Summary
• Resources
• Part VII: Applying XML
• Chapter 23: XML Form Development
• XForms Logic
• XForms Sample
• Alternatives to XForms
• Summary
• Resources
• Chapter 24: The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• The Core Structure of RDF
• The RDF Graph Model
• Using Altova s SemanticWorks
• The RDF XML Schema
• Summary
• Chapter 25: XML in Office Development
• Using XML with Microsoft Word
• Using XML in Other Office Applications
• Office 2007-Open XML Format
• OpenOffice-The Open Document Format
• Summary
• Resources
• Chapter 26: XAML
• Thin or Thick?
• One More Application Style-Windows Presentation Foundation
• Summary
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W-Z
• List of Listings
• List of Sidebars