Building XML Applications
by Simon St Laurent; Ethan CeramiFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Summary
A step-by-step implementation guide for building XML applications in Java. The CD-ROM includes code from the book, applications for "The Weather Channel", Stock Portfolio Application, Human Resources Intranet Applications, Document Management, and Electronic Commerce.
Table of Contents
| 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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