The goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive coverage of XML in a textbook format. This book is written and edited by students for students. Each student who uses the book should improve its quality by correcting errors, adding exercises, adding examples, starting new chapters, and so forth.
Book Description
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is a widely-used computer language for creating and designing pages on the World Wide Web, and for defining other languages with more specialized purposes. This Wikibook provides a detailed description of XML, its origins, its programming, and its uses on the Internet today. This book also provides exercises with which to test the knowledge you have gained through the deliberate study of its contents.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to XML
- A single entity
- Basic data structures
- The one-to-many relationship
- The one-to-one relationship
- The many-to-many relationship
- Recursive relationships
- Data schemas
- Document Type Definitions
- XHTML
- XPath
- XLink
- CSS
- XSLT and Style Sheets
- Cocoon
- Parsing XML files
- XUL
- Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
- Web Services
- XMLHTTP
- Database and XML
- SyncML
- SVG
- VoiceXML
- DocBook
- SMIL
- XBRL
- WDDX
- RPC
- JSTL
- RDF
- RSS
- JDesktop Network Components (JDNC)
- Namespace
- Business Intelligence and XML
- Converting MySQL to XML
- XML Encryption
- XQL
- XQuery
- Exchanger XML Lite
- XML and JDBC
- XForms
- XML Web Audio
- OpenOffice.org & OpenDocument Format
- XMLRPC
- KML & Google Earth
- The ACORD standard – XML in the insurance industry