Building XML Applications

Name: Building XML Applications
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ISBN: 9780071341165

ISBN-10: 0071341161

ISBN-13: 9780071341165

Edition: 1999

Authors: Simon St. Laurent

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 551
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Building Applications, Not Hype	p. xix
Examining XML's Potential	p. 1
Solving Problems	p. 3
Why XML?	p. 4
XML's History	p. 9
XML's Future	p. 11
Why Java for XML?	p. 12
SGML, HTML, XML, and the Web	p. 15
Basic Markup	p. 16
SGML Markup and Hyperlinking Before (and After) the Web	p. 19
HTML and HTTP: Building the Web	p. 21
Markup and Style Sheets	p. 23
XML and the Web	p. 24
XML and Other Distributed Application Technologies	p. 27
XML Documents and HTTP	p. 28
Processing XML on the Server	p. 32
XML and Relational Databases	p. 33
XML and Object Databases	p. 36
XML and the Document Object Model	p. 37
XML and Middleware	p. 40
XML and File Systems	p. 41
XML and Serialized Objects	p. 44
XML as a Foundation for Standards	p. 46
Chemical Markup Language (CML)	p. 46
Encoded Archival Description (EAD)	p. 47
Extensible Log Format (XLF)	p. 48
GedML	p. 48
MathML	p. 48
Newspaper Association of America--Classified Ads Format	p. 49
Open Financial Exchange (OFX)	p. 49
Open Trading Protocol	p. 50
Real Estate Listing Markup Language (RELML)	p. 51
P3P	p. 51
Precision Graphics Markup Language (PGML)	p. 52
Resource Description Framework (RDF)	p. 52
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)	p. 53
Vector Markup Language (VML)	p. 53
Virtual Hyperglossary (VHG)	p. 54
Weather Observation Markup Format	p. 54
XML/EDI	p. 54
XML and Distributed Applications	p. 55
Introduction to XML Syntax	p. 57
Creating Simple XML Documents	p. 59
Data and Markup	p. 60
Document Foundations	p. 61
The XML Declaration	p. 61
Version Information	p. 62
The Encoding Declaration	p. 62
The Standalone Declaration	p. 63
Comments	p. 64
Document Content	p. 65
Elements	p. 65
Attributes	p. 68
Built-in and Character Entities	p. 69
Building XML Documents	p. 70
Complex Well-Formed Documents: Processing Instruction, CDATA, and General Entities	p. 75
Well-Formed and Valid Documents	p. 76
Processing Instructions: Talking to the Application	p. 76
CDATA Sections: Hiding from the Parser	p. 78
Using the Document Type Declaration	p. 79
General Entities: Tools for Content Inclusion	p. 82
Internal Parsed Entities	p. 82
External Parsed Entities	p. 84
Well-Formedness Checking and Entities	p. 85
Language and White Space	p. 86
Building Valid Documents	p. 89
What is This Crazy Validation?	p. 90
Validation and Documents	p. 90
Validation and Data	p. 90
Validation and Application Architectures	p. 91
Building Document Type Definitions	p. 92
Element Declarations	p. 92
Attribute Declarations	p. 98
Notation Declarations	p. 104
Building and Using DTDs	p. 104
Beyond Validation: Schemas	p. 106
Syntactical Issues and Schemas	p. 107
Data Typing and Schemas	p. 107
The Eventual Place of Schemas	p. 108
DTD Power Tools	p. 109
Parameter Entities: Tools for Declaration Inclusion	p. 110
Conditional Sections: INCLUDE and IGNORE	p. 122
External Unparsed Entities	p. 124
Styles: Presenting Information	p. 127
Basic Concepts	p. 128
Connecting Style Sheets to Documents	p. 129
The CSS Model	p. 130
The XSL Model	p. 139
CSS and XSL?	p. 142
Implications	p. 143
Namespaces: A Brief Introduction	p. 149
The Problem of Names	p. 150
Transformations as Solution	p. 150
Namespaces as Solution	p. 151
XPointers: Referencing Fragments	p. 155
Basic Concepts	p. 156
XPointer Syntax	p. 159
Absolute Location Terms	p. 159
Relative Location Terms	p. 161
Other Locations	p. 167
Implications	p. 168
XLink: Building Connections	p. 171
Basic Concepts	p. 172
Building Simple Links	p. 174
Building Extended Links	p. 177
Building Extended Link Groups	p. 180
Implications	p. 183
Building XML Applications	p. 187
Overview of Java XML Parsers	p. 189
Introduction	p. 189
Types of Parsers	p. 191
Validating v. Non-Validating Parsers	p. 191
Tree-Based v. Event-Driven Interfaces	p. 191
Tree-Based Interfaces	p. 191
Listing 12.1 Chapter.xml: Sample XML Document	p. 192
About the Document Object Model (DOM)	p. 194
Event-Driven Interfaces	p. 195
About the Simple API for XML (SAX)	p. 197
Parser Profiles	p. 198
AElfred XML Parser	p. 199
DataChannel XML Parser (DXP)	p. 199
IBM XML for Java	p. 200
Lark	p. 201
Microsoft XML Parser (MS-XML)	p. 201
XML Parser in Java (XP)	p. 202
The AElfred XML Parser	p. 203
Assessing AElfred	p. 204
Overview of API	p. 206
The XmlHandler Interface	p. 206
The XmlParser Class	p. 212
Basic Examples	p. 214
Installing AElfred	p. 215
Example: Basic Event Handling	p. 216
Example: The HandlerBase Convenience Class	p. 220
Example: Creating an XML Summary Document	p. 224
Example: Searching an XML Document	p. 228
Event to Object Mapping	p. 234
Example: Mapping Events to Objects	p. 236
Example: Working with Attributes	p. 243
The Microsoft XML Parser	p. 253
Introduction to MS-XML	p. 253
Installing MS-XML	p. 255
Using the MS-XML Command Line Program	p. 255
Working with MS-XML	p. 259
The Document Class	p. 259
The Element Interface	p. 264
Traversing the MS-XML Tree Structure	p. 266
Creating an XML Summary Document	p. 273
Searching an XML Document	p. 280
Remapping MS-XML Tree Data	p. 285
Modifying XML Documents	p. 295
Creating New Elements	p. 295
Editing/Deleting Elements	p. 297
Saving Modified XML Documents	p. 298
Creating an XML Database	p. 299
The Simple API for XML (SAX)	p. 313
SAX Defined	p. 313
Origins of SAX	p. 315
SAX-Compliant Parsers	p. 315
Working with SAX	p. 315
Anatomy of a SAX Parsing Session	p. 316
Installing SAX	p. 321
Hello, SAX!	p. 322
Hello, SAX! Version 2.0	p. 330
Error Handling	p. 334
Working with InputSources	p. 339
Working with Attributes	p. 343
Building a SAX Tree Utility	p. 346
Building an XML Browser	p. 356
Example XML Applications	p. 367
The Weather Reporter Applet	p. 369
Description	p. 370
Important Concepts	p. 370
Technical Specification	p. 371
XML Specification	p. 371
Software Architecture	p. 373
The Code	p. 373
The CDF Site Map Applet	p. 389
Description	p. 389
Technical Specification	p. 391
XML Specification	p. 391
Introduction to the Channel Definition Format (CDF)	p. 391
The CDF Subset	p. 397
Software Arhitecture	p. 398
The Code	p. 399
Node.java	p. 399
Handler.java	p. 401
SiteMap.java	p. 405
PGML Viewer Application	p. 413
Description	p. 413
Technical Specification	p. 414
Introduction to PGML	p. 414
Basic PGML	p. 414
Predefined Shapes	p. 415
Graphics State Attributes	p. 415
Text	p. 417
The PGML Subset	p. 418
The Code	p. 419
Building an XLink Applet	p. 431
Rebuilding Image Maps to a New Model	p. 432
Starting Simple: Creating Maps with Simple Links	p. 433
Moving Up: Creating Maps with Extended Links	p. 444
Preferences: Storing and Retrieving	p. 461
Changeable Information	p. 461
Growing and Exploring Trees	p. 462
Requirements	p. 464
Building an Application that Uses an XML Preferences File	p. 465
Opening the Preferences File	p. 466
Reading a Preference Item	p. 467
Changing or Creating a Preference Item	p. 469
Writing the Preferences File	p. 471
Testing the Preferences File from the Command Line	p. 472
Using the Preferences File in a Program	p. 474
E-Commerce Product Catalog	p. 479
Description	p. 479
Technical Specification	p. 480
XML Specification	p. 481
The Code	p. 484
Servlet Programming	p. 484
XML to HTML Transformation	p. 485
The Future of Server-Side XML	p. 492
Data Aggregation	p. 492
E-Commerce Shopping Agents	p. 493
Quick Reference Guides	p. 497
The AElfred API Quick Reference Guide	p. 499
XML Package (Package com.microstar.xml)	p. 500
Class HandlerBase	p. 500
Class XmlException	p. 501
Interface XmlHandler	p. 502
Class XmlParser	p. 504
The MS-XML Quick Reference Guide	p. 509
About this Quick Reference Guide	p. 509
XML Object Model (Package com.ms.xml.om)	p. 510
Class Document	p. 510
Interface Element	p. 513
Class ElementCollection	p. 514
Class ElementDeclEnumeration	p. 515
Class ElementEnumeration	p. 516
Interface ElementFactory	p. 516
Class ElementFactorylmpl	p. 517
Class Elementlmpl	p. 518
Class SiblingEnumeration	p. 519
Class TreeEnumeration	p. 520
XML Utilities (Package com.ms.xml.util)	p. 520
Class Name	p. 521
Class XMLOutputStream	p. 522
The SAX API Quick Reference Guide	p. 523
SAX (Package org.xml.sax)	p. 524
Interface AttributeList	p. 524
Interface DTDHandler	p. 525
Interface DocumentHandler	p. 526
Interface EntityResolver	p. 527
Interface ErrorHandler	p. 528
Class HandlerBase	p. 528
Class InputSource	p. 530
Interface Locator	p. 531
Interface Parser	p. 532
Class SAXException	p. 532
Class SAXParseException	p. 533
Helpers (Package org.xml.sax.helpers)	p. 534
Class AttributeListlmpl	p. 534
Class Locatorlmpl	p. 535
Class ParserFactory	p. 536
Index	p. 539
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