XML: A Beginner's Guide | Beginner's Guide

XML: A Beginner's Guide

Authors: Steven Holzner

Published: December 2008

eISBN: 9780071606271 0071606270 | ISBN: 9780071606264

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Creating Well-Formed XML

All about Markup Languages

Using HTML

Using XML

Formatting XML

Extracting Data from XML

Applications: XML Dialects

Well-Formed and Valid XML Documents

Writing a Well-Formed XML Document

Start with an XML Declaration

Putting in a Prolog

Adding Comments

Handling Processing Instructions

Checking Syntax with a DTD

Storing Your Data in XML Elements

Adding XML Attributes

Use Only the Predefined Entity References

CDATA Sections

2 Creating Valid XML Documents: Document Type Definitions

Validating XML Documents

Creating a DTD

Declaring Elements in DTDs

Content Model: ANY

Content Model: Child Elements

Content Model: Text

Content Model: Multiple Children

Content Model: EMPTY

Choices in DTDs

Handling Attributes in DTDs

Setting Default Values

Setting Attribute Types

External DTDs

Divide and Conquer: Namespaces

3 Creating Valid XML Documents: XML Schemas

Creating an XML Schema

Declaring Elements

Declaring Simple Elements

Declaring Complex Elements

Specifying the Minimum and Maximum Number of Times an Element Can Occur

Declaring Anonymous Types

Declaring Elements by Reference

4 XML Schemas: Creating Your Own Types

Declaring Attributes

Specifying Attribute Use

Restricting Simple Types

Making Selections with XML Schema Choices

Creating Empty Elements

Creating Element Groups

Creating Attribute Groups

Creating All Groups

Schemas and Namespaces

Annotating Schemas

5 Formatting XML with Cascading Style Sheets

Using The Jungle Book

Introducing CSS

Connecting a Style Sheet to an XML Document

Understanding Style Sheets

Creating Style Sheet Selectors

Selecting by Element

Grouping Elements

Selecting by Pseudo-Element

Selecting by ID

Selecting by Class

Using Inline Styles

Using CSS Styles

Creating Block Elements

Formatting Text

Styling with Colors

Styling with Margins, Indentations, and Alignments

Styling into Lists

Styling with Borders

6 Finding Your Way with XSLT and XPath

Creating a Sample XML Document

First Formatting of the Sample XML Document

Creating Our First XSLT Style Sheet: Replacing the Entire Document

Applying XSLT Templates

Replacing <friend> Elements

Applying New Templates

Extracting the Value of <name> Elements

Using <xsl:value-of>

Extracting Multiple Elements Values

7 Formatting XML with XSL Transformations

Working with the Match Attribute

Matching the Root Node

Matching Element Nodes

Matching Child Element Nodes

Matching Attributes

Matching by ID

Matching XML Comments

Matching XML Processing Instructions

Matching Either/Or Expressions

Matching with [ ]

Using XPath

XPath Axes

XPath Node Tests

XPath Predicates

Some XPath Examples

8 Extending XML with XHTML

Getting Started with XHTML

Validating XHTML

Understanding XHTML

The Differences Between HTML and XHTML

Using <html>, the Document Element

Using <head> to Create Head Sections

Using <title> to Hold the Document’s Title

Using <body> to Hold the Document’s Body

Using Headings: <h1> Through <h6>

Using Plain Text

Using <b> to Make Text Bold

Using <i> to Make Text Italic

Using <font> to Specify Text Font

Using <img> to Display Images

Creating Tables

9 XML and Data Binding

Getting Started with DSOs

Storing Data in HTML Format

Binding Data in HTML Format

Navigating from Record to Record

Binding XML Data

Using XML Data Islands

Extracting Data from DSOs Yourself

Binding XML Data into HTML Tables

Handling Nested Records

10 XML and JavaScript

Reading XML and Extracting Data from It

Creating a DOMDocument Object

Getting a Document’s Document Element

Searching for XML Elements by Name

Extracting Data from XML Attributes

Using XML Data Islands

11 XML and Java

Working with Java and XML

Creating a Document Builder Factory

Creating a Document Builder

Parsing an XML Document

Accessing XML Data That You’ve Read in

Extracting All the Data in an XML Document Yourself

Walking over XMLNodes

Handling the Root Node

Handling the Opening Tag of Element Nodes

Handling Attribute Nodes

Handling CDATA Nodes

Handling Text Nodes

Handling Processing Instruction Nodes

Handling the Closing Tag of Element Nodes

12 Ajax and XQuery

Getting Started with Ajax

Understanding ajax.html

Creating an XMLHttpRequest Object

Opening an XMLHttpRequest Object

Connecting to the Server

Displaying the Download

Making the Download Happen

Downloading Some XML

Writing ajaxxml.html

Configuring XMLHttpRequest Objects to Handle XML

Recovering the Downloaded XML

Using XQuery

Putting XQuery to Work

Using XQuery Functions

Index