XML Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools

by Michael Fitzgerald

Overview

Developers and system administrators alike are uncovering the true power of XML, the Extensible Markup Language that enables data to be sent over the Internet from one computer platform to another or one application to another and retain its original format. Flexible enough to be customized for applications as diverse as web sites, electronic data interchange, voice mail systems, wireless devices, web services, and more, XML is quickly becoming ubiquitous.XML Hacks is a roll-up-your-sleeves guide that distills years of ingenious XML hacking into a complete set of practical tips, tricks, and tools for web developers, system administrators, and programmers who want to go far beyond basic tutorials to leverage the untapped power of XML.With plenty of useful real-world projects that illustrate how to define, read, create, and manipulate XML documents, XML Hacks shows readers how to put XML's power to work on the Internet and within productivity applications. Each Hack in this book can be read easily in a few minutes, saving programmers and administrators countless hours of searching for the right answer. And this is an O'Reilly Hacks book, so it's not just practical, imminently useful, and time-saving. It's also fun.From Anatomy of an XML Document to Exploring SOAP Messages XML Hacks shows you how to save time and accomplish more with fewer resources. If you want much more than the average XML user--to explore and experiment, do things you didn't know you could do with XML, discover clever shortcuts, and show off just a little--this invaluable book is a must-have.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449397753
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/27/2004
Series:	Hacks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	482
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Michael Fitzgerald is Professor of Child Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin. He has published over 100 papers and edited or co-edited ten books.  He specialises in Autism and ADHD.

Michael Gill is Professor of Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin and head of the Neuropsychiatric Genetics Research Group.

Mark Bellgrove is Research Fellow in the Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry and the Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.  He is currently leading the first genotype/phenotype study of ADHD to be conducted in Ireland.

Table of Contents

	Credits	vii
	Preface	xiii
Chapter 1.	Looking at XML Documents	1
1.	Read an XML Document	1
2.	Display an XML Document in a Web Browser	6
3.	Apply Style to an XML Document with CSS	8
4.	Use Character and Entity References	11
5.	Examine XML Documents in Text Editors	14
6.	Explore XML Documents in Graphical Editors	17
7.	Choose Tools for Creating an XML Vocabulary	21
8.	Test XML Documents Online	25
9.	Test XML Documents from the Command Line	28
10.	Run Java Programs that Process XML	33
Chapter 2.	Creating XML Documents	39
11.	Edit XML Documents with oXygen	39
12.	Edit XML Documents with Emacs and nXML	41
13.	Edit XML with Vim	47
14.	Edit XML Documents with Microsoft Word 2003	54
15.	Work with XML in Microsoft Excel 2003	59
16.	Work with XML in Microsoft Access 2003	62
17.	Convert Microsoft Office Files, Old or New, to XML	65
18.	Create an XML Document from a Text File with xmlspy	67
19.	Convert Text to XML with Uphill	70
20.	Create Well-Formed XML with Minimal Manual Tagging Using an SGML Parser	75
21.	Create an XML Document from a CSV File	79
22.	Convert an HTML Document to XHTML with HTML Tidy	82
23.	Transform Documents with XQuery	85
24.	Execute an XQuery with Saxon	90
25.	Include Text and Documents with Entities	94
26.	Include External Documents with XInclude	97
27.	Encode XML Documents	100
28.	Explore XLink and XML	105
29.	What's the Diff? Diff XML Documents	109
30.	Look at XML Documents Through the Lens of the XML Information Set	114
Chapter 3.	Transforming XML Documents	117
31.	Understand the Anatomy of an XSLT Stylesheet	117
32.	Transform an XML Document with a Command-Line Processor	119
33.	Transform an XML Document Within a Graphical Editor	125
34.	Analyze Nodes with TreeViewer	130
35.	Explore a Document Tree with the xmllint Shell	133
36.	View Documents as Tables Using Generic CSS or XSLT	136
37.	Generate an XSLT Identity Stylesheet with Relaxer	141
38.	Pretty-Print XML Using a Generic Identity Stylesheet and Xalan	144
39.	Create a Text File from an XML Document	146
40.	Convert Attributes to Elements and Elements to Attributes	149
41.	Convert XML to CSV	153
42.	Create and Process SpreadsheetML	156
43.	Choose Your Output Format in XSLT	169
44.	Transform Your iTunes Library File	171
45.	Generate Multiple Output Documents with XSLT 2.0	176
46.	Generate XML from MySQL	179
47.	Generate PDF Documents from XML and CSS	184
48.	Process XML Documents with XSL-FO and FOP	185
49.	Process HTML with XSLT Using TagSoup	190
50.	Build Results with Literal Result and Instruction Elements	191
51.	Write Push and Pull Stylesheets	196
52.	Perform Math with XSLT	197
53.	Transform XML Documents with grep and sed	200
54.	Generate SVG with XSLT	205
55.	Dither Scatterplots with XSLT and SVG	209
56.	Use Lookup Tables with XSLT to Translate FIPS Codes	216
57.	Grouping in XSLT 1.0 and 2.0	221
58.	Use EXSLT Extensions	228
Chapter 4.	XML Vocabularies	234
59.	Use XML Namespaces in an XML Vocabulary	234
60.	Create an RDDL Document	237
61.	Create and Validate an XHTML 1.0 Document	241
62.	Create Books, Technical Manuals, and Papers in XML with DocBook	244
63.	Create a SOAP 1.2 Document	247
64.	Identify Yourself with FOAF	250
65.	Unravel the OpenOffice File Format	258
66.	Render Graphics with SVG	264
67.	Use XForms in Your XML Documents	268
Chapter 5.	Defining XML Vocabularies with Schema Languages	276
68.	Validate an XML Document with a DTD	277
69.	Validate an XML Document with XML Schema	285
70.	Validate Multiple Documents Against an XML Schema at Once	292
71.	Check the Integrity of a W3C Schema	294
72.	Validate an XML Document with RELAX NG	297
73.	Create a DTD from an Instance	305
74.	Create an XML Schema Document from an Instance or DTD	310
75.	Create a RELAX NG Schema from an Instance	315
76.	Convert a RELAX NG Schema to XML Schema	321
77.	Use RELAX NG and Schematron Together to Validate Business Rules	323
78.	Use RELAX NG to Generate DTD Customizations	329
79.	Generate Instances Based on Schemas	335
Chapter 6.	RSS and Atom	339
80.	Subscribe to RSS Feeds	339
81.	Create an RSS 0.91 Document	343
82.	Create an RSS 1.0 Document	346
83.	Create an RSS 2.0 Document	348
84.	Create an Atom Document	350
85.	Validate RSS and Atom Documents	353
86.	Create RSS with XML::RSS	355
87.	Syndicate Content with Movable Type	360
88.	Post RSS Headlines on Your Site	365
89.	Create RSS 0.91 Feeds from Google	368
90.	Syndicate a List of Books from Amazon with RSS and ASP	371
Chapter 7.	Advanced XML Hacks	378
91.	Pipeline XML with Ant	378
92.	Use Elements Instead of Entities to Avoid the "amp Explosion Problem"	386
93.	Use Cocoon to Create a Well-Formed View of a Web Page, Then Scrape It for Data	390
94.	From Wiki to XML, Through SGML	398
95.	Create Well-Formed XML with JavaScript	406
96.	Inspect and Edit XML Documents with the Document Object Model	414
97.	Processing XML with SAX	421
98.	Process XML with C#	426
99.	Generate Code from XML	434
100.	Create Well-Formed XML with Genx	442
	Index	449

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Got a job to do with XML? Look it up in XML Hacks. Absorb the insights, review the examples, follow the instructions, and you’re done.

Some of the volumes in O’Reilly’s Hacks series take you into previously uncharted territory. This one focuses on 100 mainstream, core tasks: the stuff developers, content specialists, Web pros, and power users encounter most often. Some of it’s basic (but crucial to newcomers): styling XML documents with CSS, converting plain text files to XML with xmlspy, converting HTML to XHTML with HTML Tidy. Some of it’s sophisticated: using Cocoon; processing XML using DOM, SAX, Genx, or C#’s System.Xml namespace.

In between, Michael Fitzgerald covers the waterfront: transformations, vocabularies, schema languages, even RSS feeds. Simply put, this book is your shortcut to the XML solution you need today. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2003 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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