XML: how to program

Introduction to the Internet and World Wide Web......Page 1
1.2 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)......Page 2
1.3 History of the Internet......Page 3
1.4 History of the World Wide Web......Page 4
1.5 Future of Computing......Page 5
1.6 History of SGML......Page 6
1.7 XML and XML How to Program......Page 7
1.8 A Tour of the Book......Page 10
1.10 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 19
Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part I......Page 23
2.1 Introduction......Page 24
2.3 Editing HTML......Page 25
2.4 Common Elements......Page 26
2.5 Headers......Page 28
2.6 Linking......Page 29
2.7 Images......Page 32
2.8 Special Characters and More Line Breaks......Page 35
2.9 Unordered Lists......Page 37
2.10 Nested and Ordered Lists......Page 38
2.11 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 41
Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part II......Page 46
3.2 Basic HTML Tables......Page 47
3.3 Intermediate HTML Tables and Formatting......Page 50
3.4 Basic HTML Forms......Page 52
3.5 More Complex HTML Forms......Page 55
3.6 Internal Linking......Page 62
3.7 Creating and Using Image Maps......Page 64
3.8 Tags......Page 67
3.9 Element......Page 68
3.10 Nested......Page 70
3.11 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 72
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)......Page 79
4.2 Inline Styles......Page 80
4.3 Creating Style Sheets with the Element......Page 81
4.4 Conflicting Styles......Page 84
4.5 Linking External Style Sheets......Page 87
4.6 Positioning Elements......Page 89
4.7 Backgrounds......Page 92
4.8 Element Dimensions......Page 95
4.9 Text Flow and the Box Model......Page 97
Content......Page 99
4.10 User Style Sheets......Page 102
4.11 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 105
Creating Markup with XML......Page 110
5.2 Introduction to XML Markup......Page 111
5.3 Parsers and Well- formed XML Documents......Page 112
5.4 Parsing an XML Document with msxml......Page 113
5.5 Characters......Page 114
5.6 Markup......Page 118
5.7 CDATA Sections......Page 122
5.8 XML Namespaces......Page 123
5.9 Case Study: A Day Planner Application......Page 126
5.10 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 127
Document Type Definition (DTD)......Page 134
6.2 Parsers, Well- formed and Valid XML Documents......Page 135
6.3 Document Type Declaration......Page 136
6.4 Element Type Declarations......Page 137
6.5 Attribute Declarations......Page 145
6.6 Attribute Types......Page 147
6.7 Conditional Sections......Page 153
6.8 Whitespace Characters......Page 155
6.9 Case Study: Writing a DTD for the Day Planner Application......Page 158
6.10 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 159
Schemas......Page 165
7.1 Introduction......Page 166
7.3 Microsoft XML Schema: Describing Elements......Page 167
7.4 Microsoft XML Schema: Describing Attributes......Page 174
7.5 Microsoft XML Schema: Data Types......Page 177
7.6 W3C XML Schema......Page 183
Planner Application......Page 185
7.8 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 186
Document Object Model (DOM )......Page 192
8.1 Introduction......Page 193
8.3 DOM with JavaScript......Page 194
8.5 DOM Components......Page 199
8.6 Creating Nodes......Page 209
8.7 Traversing the DOM......Page 213
the DOM......Page 216
8.9 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 227
Simple API for XML (SAX)......Page 232
9.2 DOM vs. SAX......Page 233
9.5 Events......Page 234
9.6 Example: Tree Diagram......Page 235
9.7 Case Study: Using SAX with the Day Planner Application......Page 245
9.8 SAX 2.0......Page 254
9.9 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 258
Case Study: XmlMessenger Program......Page 263
10.1 Introduction......Page 264
10.2 Setup......Page 265
10.3 Overview: Server Side of XmlMessenger......Page 266
10.4 Implementation: Server Side of XmlMessenger......Page 267
10.5 Overview: Client Side of XmlMessenger......Page 277
10.6 Implementation: Client Side of XmlMessenger......Page 280
XML Path Language (XPath)......Page 297
11.2 Nodes......Page 298
11.3 Location Paths......Page 305
11.4 Node- set Operators and Functions......Page 310
11.5 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 314
XSL: Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)......Page 319
12.2 Setup......Page 320
12.3 Templates......Page 321
12.4 Creating Elements and Attributes......Page 322
12.5 Iteration and Sorting......Page 327
12.6 Conditional Processing......Page 331
12.7 Copying Nodes......Page 333
12.8 Combining Stylesheets......Page 335
12.9 Variables......Page 340
12.10 Case Study: XSLT and XPath......Page 341
12.11 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 347
XSL: Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects......Page 353
13.1 Introduction......Page 354
13.3 Examples of XSL Formatting- object Documents......Page 355
13.4 Lists......Page 365
13.5 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 368
XLink, XPointer, XInclude and XBase......Page 372
14.2 XML Linking Language (XLink)......Page 373
14.3 XLink and DTDs......Page 385
14.4 XML Pointer Language (XPointer)......Page 388
14.5 XML Inclusions (XInclude)......Page 389
14.6 XML Base (XBase)......Page 390
14.7 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 391
Case Study: Message Forum with Active Server Pages......Page 395
15.2 Setup and Message Forum Documents......Page 396
15.3 Forum Navigation......Page 397
15.4 Adding Forums......Page 401
15.5 Forum XML Documents......Page 407
15.7 Other HTML Documents......Page 411
15.8 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 416
Server- side Java Programming......Page 418
16.2 Cocoon......Page 419
16.3 Extensible Server Pages (XSP)......Page 423
16.4 Case Study: A Wireless Online Bookstore......Page 430
16.5 Jakarta Tomcat Setup......Page 433
16.6 WAP and WML: Client- side Documents......Page 434
16.7 Java Servlets......Page 438
16.8 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 481
Perl and XML: A Web- based Message Forums Application......Page 484
17.3 Setup......Page 485
17.4 Displaying the Forums using XML:: Parser......Page 487
17.5 Using XML:: DOM to Add Forums and Messages......Page 490
17.6 Alterations for Non- XSL Browsers......Page 495
17.7 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 501
Accessibility......Page 503
18.2 Providing Alternatives for Multimedia Content......Page 504
18.3 Maximizing Readability by Focusing on Structure......Page 507
18.4 Accessibility in HTML Tables......Page 508
18.6 Accessibility in XML......Page 512
18.7 Using Voice Synthesis and Recognition with VoiceXML™......Page 513
18.8 JAWS for Windows......Page 520
18.9 Other Accessibility Tools......Page 521
18.10 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 522
XHTML and XForms......Page 527
19.2 XHTML......Page 528
19.3 XForms......Page 534
19.5 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 535
Custom Markup Languages: Part I......Page 539
20.2 Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)......Page 540
20.4 Chemical Markup Language (CML)......Page 543
20.5 Wireless Markup Language (WML)......Page 548
20.6 Geography Markup Language (GML)......Page 551
20.7 Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)......Page 553
20.8 Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)......Page 557
20.9 Bean Markup Language (BML)......Page 562
20.10 Extensible 3D Language (X3D)......Page 570
20.11 Additional Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 574
Custom Markup Languages: Part II......Page 581
21.2 Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)......Page 582
21.4 Electronic Business XML (ebXML)......Page 586
21.6 Commerce XML (cXML)......Page 587
21.7 LegalXML......Page 592
21.8 NewsML......Page 593
21.9 Open eBook Publication Structure......Page 594
21.11 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 595
XML Technologies and Applications......Page 601
22.1 Introduction......Page 602
22.3 Directory Services Markup Language (DSML)......Page 603
22.4 Resource Definition Framework (RDF)......Page 604
22.5 XML Topic Maps (XTM)......Page 608
22.7 Channel Definition Format (CDF)......Page 612
22.8 Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Protocol......Page 616
22.10 Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)......Page 617
22.11 Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BXXP)......Page 618
22.13 Extensible Rights Markup Language (XrML)......Page 619
22.14 XML Metadata Interchange (XMI)......Page 620
22.16 XAML......Page 621
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Microsoft BizTalk™......Page 626
23.2 Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)......Page 627
23.3 Microsoft BizTalk......Page 633
23.4 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 636
Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Scripting with VBScript......Page 640
24.2 Operators......Page 641
£......Page 642
24.3 Data Types and Control Structures......Page 643
24.4 VBScript Functions......Page 648
24.5 VBScript Example Programs......Page 651
24.6 Arrays......Page 659
24.7 String Manipulation......Page 663
24.8 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 667
Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Active Server Pages (ASP)......Page 673
25.2 How Active Server Pages Work......Page 674
25.4 Using Personal Web Server and Internet Information Server......Page 676
25.5 Active Server Page Objects......Page 677
25.6 A Simple ASP Example......Page 678
25.7 Server- side ActiveX Components......Page 680
25.8 File System Objects......Page 685
25.9 Session Tracking and Cookies......Page 693
25.10 Databases, SQL, Microsoft UDA and ADO......Page 704
25.11 Accessing a Database from an Active Server Page......Page 709
25.12 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 718
Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Perl Programming......Page 723
26.1 Introduction......Page 724
26.2 Perl......Page 725
26.3 String Processing and Regular Expressions......Page 730
26.4 Viewing Client/ Server Environment Variables......Page 735
26.5 Form Processing and Business Logic......Page 738
26.6 Server- Side Includes......Page 743
26.7 Verifying a Username and Password......Page 747
26.8 Using ODBC to Connect to a Database......Page 752
26.9 Cookies and Perl......Page 756
26.10 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 761
Bonus Chapter: Introduction to Java 2 Programming......Page 766
Outline......Page 767
27.2 Java Keywords, Primitive Data Types and Class Libraries......Page 768
27.3 Command- Line Java Applications......Page 772
27.4 Arrays......Page 784
27.5 Class Vector......Page 791
27.6 Graphical User Interfaces: A Windowed Application with......Page 792
Classes......Page 799
27.8 Graphical User Interfaces: Miscellaneous Components......Page 808
27.9 Graphical User Interfaces: Layout Managers......Page 813
and Introducing Graphics......Page 819
27.11 Multithreading......Page 823
27.12 Networking with Sockets and Streams......Page 830
27.13 Enhancing a Web Server with Servlets......Page 842
27.14 Internet and World Wide Web Resources......Page 852
Characters......Page 863