XML & related technologies

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahate, Atul, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

XML (Document markup language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (527 pages)

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Dorling Kindersley India Pvt Ltd 2009

Language Note:

English

Summary:

XML has become the standard for all kinds of integration and deployment of applications, regardless of the technology platform. This book covers all aspects of dealing with XML, both from a conceptual as well as from a practical point of view. The book follows a visual approach to introduce concepts, making understanding it very easy. A large number of case studies and examples are provided for ease of learning and for hands-on practice.

Contents:

Cover

XML

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

About the Author

Introduction to XML

What is XML?

Communication Incompatibilities

XML and Application Communication Incompatibilities

XML Versus HTML

Electronic Data Interchange

Understanding EDI

An overview of EDI

The origins of EDI

Non-EDI systems

Partially integrated EDI systems

Fully integrated EDI

Advantages of EDI

Data exchange standards

EDI and the Internet

XML Terminology

XML Standards

XML namespaces

Document Type Definitions

Cascading Style Sheets

Extensible Stylesheet Language

XML schemas

XML Query Language

XLink

XPointer

XPath

XML Digital Signatures

XHTML

Key Terms and Concepts

Chapter Summary

Practice Set

Answers to Exercises

XML Syntaxes

XML Syntax Checking

The Idea of Markup

XML Structure

Inverted Tree Structure

Creating Layers of Eements

Comments in XML

Order of Elements

Organising Information in XML

Classifying Information as per its Importance

Adding the Details

Transforming Information into an XML Format

Creating WeLL-Formed XML Documents

The Tag and the Root Element

Opening and Closing of Tags

Empty Elements

Entities

Element Naming and Nesting Conventions

Adding Attributes

XML Namespaces

Introduction to DTD

Document Type Declaration

Element Type Declaration

Valid and Well-formed Documents

Specifying Sequences, Occurrences and Choices

Empty, Any, and Mixed Content

Attribute Declaration

Defaults for Attributes

Tpes of Attributes

Conditional Sections

Limitations of DTDs

XML Schemas.

Introduction to Schema

Complex Types

Basics of Simple and Complex Types

Specifying the Frequency: minOccurs and maxOccurs

Specifying Element Content

Content Model Reuse

Anonymous Types

Mixed Content

Grouping of Data

Mandating all Elements

Making Choices

Sequences

Simple Types

Numeric Data Types

Time Data Types

XML Data Types

String Data Types

Binary Data Types

Other Data Types

Deriving Types

Deriving by Restriction

Facets

Attributes

Grouping Attributes

The Need for CSS

What is CSS?

Advantages of Stylesheets

Stylesheets and XML

Classification of Stylesheets

External Stylesheets

Internal Stylesheets

Inline Stylesheets

Stylesheet Tips

Stylesheet Features and Usages

Setting Measurements

Specifying Colours

Using Fonts

Setting Text Properties

Box Properties

Using Class Selectors

Using Colours

Setting Classification Properties

Stylesheet Examples

Introduction to XSL

What is XSL?

The Need For XSL

XSL Transformations: An Overview

Basics and Purpose of XSLT

XML Path Language

Nodes

Location Paths

Examples

Using Predicates

Unabbreviated and Abbreviated Syntaxes

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations

Templates

Creating Elements and Attributes

Looping and Sorting

Conditional Processing

Copying Nodes Using and

Defining Variables Using

XSL and CSS Together

Extensibl Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects

Overview of XSL-FO

XSL-FO Layout

Organisation of an XSL-FO Document

XSL-FO: A Complete Example.

Set Up for Running XSL-FO Examples

Creating Lists in XSL-FO

XML and Java

Basics of Parsing

What is Parsing?

Parsing Approaches

The StAX API

JAXP

Sun's JAXP

JAXP and SAX

JAXP and DOM

JAXP and StAX

XML and JAVA - A Case Study

Case Study

XML and ASP.NET

Introduction

XMLReader

XMLWriter

Extracting Data from a Database as an XML Document

Web Services and AJAX

Web Services

How are Web Services Different?

The Buzzwords in Web Services

Java Web Services

RESTful Web Services

AJAX

How does AJAX work?

AJAX FAQ

Life Without AJAX

AJAX Coding

Role of XML in Ajax - Case Study

XML Security

Threats and Risks

Cryptography

Symmetric and asymmetric key Cryptography

Symmetric key Cryptography

Asymmetric key Cryptography

The RSA Algorithm

Digital Signature

XML Encryption

XML Digital Signature

XML key Management Specification

Appendix - Miscellaneous Topics

XML and Javascript

VoiceXML

XML and Databases

Security Assertion Markup Language

How SAML Works?

classification of Assertions

Assertion Details

Assertion Examples

ODF Versus OOXML

Standardisation and Protocols

JSON - An Alternative to XML?

JSON Benefits

JSON Technical Details

JSON Drawbacks

XHTML - The New HTML Standard

XHTML Document Types

Benefits of XHTML

The W3C Markup Validation Service

Valid XHTML

invalid XHTML

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-65226-5

9786612652264

81-317-4209-1

OCLC:

1027152500