XML Tutorials

This article describes how an XSLT processor, in this case the author's open-source Saxon, actually works. Although several open-source XSLT implementations exist (see Resources), no one, as far as we know, has published a description of how they work. This article is intended to fill that gap. It describes the internal workings of Saxon, and shows how this processor addresses XSLT optimization.

The very basics of XML documents set out in a brief tutorial for absolute beginners. Discusses XML tags, DTDs, well-formed XML documents and gives links to other resources such as XML Parsers, Editors and XSL tools. Free.

Companies that are interested in investing in voice technology may want to look at VoiceXML rather than older systems such as IVR. There are a number of reasons for this.VoiceXML is very flexible, and applications that are designed with it will reflect this high level of flexibility. Even if your company must purchase equipment for deployment purposes, the flexibility of your VoiceXML tools will be maintained.

A collection of 17 tutorial tips on XHTML 1.0 introduction. Clear answers are provided for frequently asked questions on what is XHTML, Web, HTTP, XML, HTML, URL, SGML, CSS, and DTD; who developed XHTML; writing and viewing XHTML documents.

In this 28 page tutorial, you will go from not knowing much about XML/XSL/XPATH to finishing with a working knowledge of XSLT and XPATH.

There are a number of reasons why you will want to consider Unified Modeling Language (UML) - for your application development. When I think of UML, one term which comes to mind is "software quality." One thing that has plagued the software industry in recent year is poor software design. While the software industry has done fairly well for the last decade, the impact of globalization is changing the ways in which software is designed.

This article casts a critical eye on the Simple Object Access Protocol, assessing the value this much-discussed new technology can provide developers and demonstrating its foundation in a mixture of the old RPC (remote procedure calls) technology and in XML. It examines RPC, XML-RPC, RMI, and SOAP in detail, comparing and contrasting the use of each, and discusses whether SOAP makes sense. This article also includes sample code for a SOAP envelope.

A collection of 11 FAQs on RSS news aggregators. Clear answers are provided with tutorial codes on desktop and online news aggregators; adding your feeds to online news aggregators; sample codes for Google Reader, My Yahoo, Bloglines, NewsGator, Netvibes.

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XLink, an XML-related specification, lets you achieve dramatic linking effects in your XML documents. In this short tip learn how to include parts of other XML documents in your own XML through XLink. The code example demonstrates the technique.

A collection of 17 tutorial tips on XHTML 1.0 element content syntax and basics. Clear answers are provided with tutorial exercises on XHTML element content models, EMTPY and PCDATA element contents, sub-element only contents, mixed contents, XHTML entities and CDATA, nested elements, white space characters.

This introductory article shows how to create XML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and well-formed, well-defined XML files that can be validated by the XML parser of your choice. While you don't have to include a DTD with every XML file you produce, doing so will make your life a lot easier. Not only will a DTD enforce the syntax you've established for your XML files, it will also allow your files to be parsed by a validating XML parser. Code samples include DTD and XML document examples.

A collection of 16 FAQs on Atom feed file standard. Clear answers are provided with tutorial samples on introduction to Atom feed file standard; various ways to generate Atom feeds; linking Atom feeds to Web pages.

VoiceXML Introduction VoiceXML is an XML format that is used for the purpose of categorizing voice dialogues that will occur among humans and computers. It is connected to W3C, and it gives voice programs the ability to be created and used with HTML. An HTML document is designed to be read by web...

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This article introduces the architecture, which sets forth a set of design principles for creating information-typed modules at a topic level, and for using that content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals on the Web. This article serves as a roadmap to DITA: what it is and how it applies to technical documentation. The article also links to representative source code.