XML Hacks by Fitzgerald, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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XML Hacks

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Preface

Why XML Hacks? How This Book Is Organized Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples How to Contact Us Got a hack? Acknowledgments

1. Looking at XML Documents

Hacks #1-10 Hack #1. Read an XML Document

The XML Declaration

Version information The encoding declaration The standalone declaration

Comments Elements

Mixed content

Attributes

Character references

CDATA Sections See Also

Hack #2. Display an XML Document in a Web Browser Hack #3. Apply Style to an XML Document with CSS

Processing Instructions Cascading Style Sheets Applying a Stylesheet to an XML Document See Also

Hack #4. Use Character and Entity References

Character References

The xml:lang attribute

Entity References

Hack #5. Examine XML Documents in Text Editors

Vim Emacs with nXML See Also

Hack #6. Explore XML Documents in Graphical Editors

xmlspy xRay2 <oXygen/> See Also

Hack #7. Choose Tools for Creating an XML Vocabulary

Well-Formedness, Validation, and Schemas

DTD Other schema languages

Namespaces See Also

Hack #8. Test XML Documents Online

RUWF RXP Brown University’s Validation Form

Hack #9. Test XML Documents from the Command Line

RXP xmlvalid xmllint xmlwf

Hack #10. Run Java Programs that Process XML

JAR Files The Java Classpath Using a JAR File as an Executable on Windows 2000 or XP

2. Creating XML Documents

Hacks #11-30 Hack #11. Edit XML Documents with <oXygen/> Hack #12. Edit XML Documents with Emacs and nXML

Spotting Validity Errors in Real Time Getting Help with nXML Using Context-Sensitive Completion Making nXML Work Your Way Entering and Displaying Special Characters See Also

Hack #13. Edit XML with Vim

Basic Configuration Syntax Highlighting Indentation Folding Automation See Also

Hack #14. Edit XML Documents with Microsoft Word 2003

Attaching Schemas to Word Using XSLT with Word 2003 Saving Word 2003 Files as XML See Also

Hack #15. Work with XML in Microsoft Excel 2003

See Also

Hack #16. Work with XML in Microsoft Access 2003

See Also

Hack #17. Convert Microsoft Office Files, Old or New, to XML

DocBook

Hack #18. Create an XML Document from a Text File with xmlspy

See Also

Hack #19. Convert Text to XML with Uphill

Trying It Out How the Code Works

The markup class The uphill class

Summary See Also

Hack #20. Create Well-Formed XML with Minimal Manual Tagging Using an SGML Parser

From HTML to XML Marking Up the Names of People See Also

Hack #21. Create an XML Document from a CSV File

See Also

Hack #22. Convert an HTML Document to XHTML with HTML Tidy Hack #23. Transform Documents with XQuery

See Also

Hack #24. Execute an XQuery with Saxon

Executing XQuery from a File Using Saxon Piping Queries to Saxon Executing XQuery from Java Using XQJ Executing XQuery on the Web See Also

Hack #25. Include Text and Documents with Entities

Unparsed Entities and Notations

Hack #26. Include External Documents with XInclude

See Also

Hack #27. Encode XML Documents

ISO/IEC 8859 UTF-8 and UTF-16

The Byte Order Mark

See Also

Hack #28. Explore XLink and XML

XML Base XLink Other XLink Functionality

Extended links XLink linkbases

See Also

Hack #29. What’s the Diff? Diff XML Documents

DecisionSoft’s xmldiff DeltaXML’s XML Comparator IBM’s XML Diff and Merge Tool See Also

Hack #30. Look at XML Documents Through the Lens of the XML Information Set

3. Transforming XML Documents

Hacks #31-58 Hack #31. Understand the Anatomy of an XSLT Stylesheet

The Document Element Templates

Using apply-templates A literal result element The attribute value template The copy-of and copy elements

Hack #32. Transform an XML Document with a Command-Line Processor

Saxon

Instant Saxon Full Java version of Saxon

Xalan MSXSL

Hack #33. Transform an XML Document Within a Graphical Editor

xmlspy xRay2 <oXygen/> See Also

Hack #34. Analyze Nodes with TreeViewer Hack #35. Explore a Document Tree with the xmllint Shell

xmllint Shell Commands

Hack #36. View Documents as Tables Using Generic CSS or XSLT Hack #37. Generate an XSLT Identity Stylesheet with Relaxer Hack #38. Pretty-Print XML Using a Generic Identity Stylesheet and Xalan Hack #39. Create a Text File from an XML Document

Built-in Templates

Hack #40. Convert Attributes to Elements and Elements to Attributes

Element-to-Attribute Conversion Attribute-to-Element Conversion See Also

Hack #41. Convert XML to CSV

See Also

Hack #42. Create and Process SpreadsheetML Hack #43. Choose Your Output Format in XSLT Hack #44. Transform Your iTunes Library File Hack #45. Generate Multiple Output Documents with XSLT 2.0 Hack #46. Generate XML from MySQL Hack #47. Generate PDF Documents from XML and CSS Hack #48. Process XML Documents with XSL-FO and FOP

XSL-FO Basics Generating a PDF See Also

Hack #49. Process HTML with XSLT Using TagSoup

Using TagSoup and TSaxon

Hack #50. Build Results with Literal Result and Instruction Elements

Literal Result Elements and Literal Text Instruction Elements

Hack #51. Write Push and Pull Stylesheets Hack #52. Perform Math with XSLT Hack #53. Transform XML Documents with grep and sed

grep sed See Also

Hack #54. Generate SVG with XSLT

See Also

Hack #55. Dither Scatterplots with XSLT and SVG Hack #56. Use Lookup Tables with XSLT to Translate FIPS Codes

The FIPS Code Example Putting the Lookup Table in the Stylesheet Running the Hack

Hack #57. Grouping in XSLT 1.0 and 2.0

Grouping with XSLT 1.0 Grouping with XSLT 2.0 See Also

Hack #58. Use EXSLT Extensions

EXSLT’s date:date( ), date:time( ), and math:lowest( ) Functions EXSLT’s exsl:node-set Function See Also

4. XML Vocabularies

Hacks #59-67 Hack #59. Use XML Namespaces in an XML Vocabulary

See Also

Hack #60. Create an RDDL Document

See Also

Hack #61. Create and Validate an XHTML 1.0 Document

See Also

Hack #62. Create Books, Technical Manuals, and Papers in XML with DocBook

See Also

Hack #63. Create a SOAP 1.2 Document

See Also

Hack #64. Identify Yourself with FOAF

The FOAF Vocabulary Personal Metadata Identifying Marks It’s Who You Know Finer-Grained Relationships Image Is Everything Publishing FOAF Data See Also

Hack #65. Unravel the OpenOffice File Format

See Also

Hack #66. Render Graphics with SVG

See Also

Hack #67. Use XForms in Your XML Documents

Anatomy of an XForms Document Simple Approaches to Trying Out XForms A Working Example See Also

5. Defining XML Vocabularies with Schema Languages

Hacks #68-79 Hack #68. Validate an XML Document with a DTD

External Subset

The text declaration Element type declarations and content models Attribute-list declarations

Internal Subset

Using an internal subset and an external subset together

Parameter Entities Other Things That Can Go in a DTD

Comments Conditional sections Unparsed entities and notations

Hack #69. Validate an XML Document with XML Schema

A Quick Introduction to XML Schema Validation with XML Schema Tools

XSD Schema Validator

xmllint xsv Other XML Schema Features See Also

Hack #70. Validate Multiple Documents Against an XML Schema at Once Hack #71. Check the Integrity of a W3C Schema Hack #72. Validate an XML Document with RELAX NG

XML Syntax

xmllint Jing A more complex RELAX NG schema

Compact Syntax

Jing with compact syntax RNV A more complex RELAX NG schema in compact syntax

See Also

Hack #73. Create a DTD from an Instance

Trang Relaxer DTDGenerator xmlspy

Hack #74. Create an XML Schema Document from an Instance or DTD

LuMriX.net’s DTD2XS Microsoft XSD Inference 1.0 Trang Relaxer xmlspy

Hack #75. Create a RELAX NG Schema from an Instance

Trang (XML Syntax) Relaxer (XML Syntax) Trang (Compact Syntax)

Hack #76. Convert a RELAX NG Schema to XML Schema Hack #77. Use RELAX NG and Schematron Together to Validate Business Rules

Pulling Schematron Out of RELAX NG See Also

Hack #78. Use RELAX NG to Generate DTD Customizations

Generating an RNC Schema

Flattening your DTD Generating an RNC schema from your flattened DTD

Creating an RNC Schema Customization File Compiling Your Customization File Converting Your RNC Customization File to RNG XML Syntax Using incelim.xsl to Compile Your RNG Customization File Generating Your DTD Subset

Hack #79. Generate Instances Based on Schemas

Generating an Instance with xmlspy Generating an Instance with the Sun Instance Generator See Also

6. RSS and Atom

Hacks #80-90 Hack #80. Subscribe to RSS Feeds

Radio UserLand AmphetaDesk NewsGator See Also

Hack #81. Create an RSS 0.91 Document Hack #82. Create an RSS 1.0 Document

See Also

Hack #83. Create an RSS 2.0 Document

See Also

Hack #84. Create an Atom Document

Feed Entries See Also

Hack #85. Validate RSS and Atom Documents

See Also

Hack #86. Create RSS with XML::RSS

See Also

Hack #87. Syndicate Content with Movable Type

Syndicating the Whole Post Including Trackback Links Creating Specialized Feeds Category Feeds Syndicating Comments

Hack #88. Post RSS Headlines on Your Site

The Code Running the Hack

Hack #89. Create RSS 0.91 Feeds from Google Hack #90. Syndicate a List of Books from Amazon with RSS and ASP

What You Need The Code Running the Hack

7. Advanced XML Hacks

Hacks #91-100 Hack #91. Pipeline XML with Ant

Validating an XML Document The Jing Task An XML Pipeline Example See Also

Hack #92. Use Elements Instead of Entities to Avoid the “amp Explosion Problem”

See Also

Hack #93. Use Cocoon to Create a Well-Formed View of a Web Page, Then Scrape It for Data

Cocoon in 60 Seconds Running the Hack Extending the Hack

Hack #94. From Wiki to XML, Through SGML

SGML: A Language for Describing Wikis An SGML Document Type for Wiki Which Wiki? Wiki as SGML

Hack #95. Create Well-Formed XML with JavaScript

The Element Function Adding Attributes Extending the Hack Creating Large Chunks of XML See Also

Hack #96. Inspect and Edit XML Documents with the Document Object Model

DOM Inspector Python’s minidom DOM in Java See Also

Hack #97. Processing XML with SAX

A Little Help from SAX See Also

Hack #98. Process XML with C#

Getting C# Writing an XML Document with XmlTextWriter Reading XML See Also

Hack #99. Generate Code from XML

Using Relaxer to Generate Java Using xmlspy to Generate C# See Also

Hack #100. Create Well-Formed XML with Genx

Setting Up Genx Compiling Genx A First Example Declare Markup for Better Performance

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