Chapter 13 XML.ppt

Chapter 13 XML Concept of XML Simple Example of XML XML vs. HTML in Syntax XML Structure DTD and CDATA Sections Concept of SAX Processing Download and Configure SAXP Pack Example of SAX Parser in Java with XML Concept of DOM Processing Building a DOM Tree from a XML File Concept of XSLT Chapter 13 XML (continue) Examples of Stylesheets Concept of SOAP Examples of Using SOAP Servers with Messages SOAP API and SOAP Server Tomcat Configuring SOAP API and SOAP Server Tomcat Example of Using SOAP API with Tomcat In-Class Exercises and Lab Assignment Concept of XML What is XML? - is eXtensible Markup Language - Easily modifying, changing, or adding data features due to its modular structure - is actually “meta-language” Why XML? - Simplify documents communication across different applications and languages - Customize data storage, arrangement, and organization - Easily validating, integrating, and error detecting within an application Concept of XML(continue) - Data in stylesheet can be customized to any output desired - Any type of data can be expressed as an XML document. XML provides rules to describe data Simple Example of XML ?xml version=“1.0”? !– xml document declaration -- SHOWS PERFORMANCE TITLEFairy Princess/TITLE AUTHOR/ DESCRIPTION Scratch sound with emphasis on color, texture. /DESCRIPTION DATE status=“canceled”04/16/2002/DATE /PERFORMANCE /SHOWS !-- Note: AUTHOR/ is an empty tag without data -- Simple Example of XML (continue) Execution result in Netscape 6.0: Fairy Princess Scratch sound with emphasis on color, texture. 04/16/2002 Execution result in Internet Explorer: ?xml version=1.0 ? !-- xml document declaration ? -- - SHOWS - PERFORMANCE? TITLEFairy Princess/TITLE ? AUTHOR / ? DESCRIPTIONScratch sound with emphasis on color, texture. /DESCRIPTION ? DATE status=canceled04/16/2002/DATE ? /PERFORMANCE? /SHOWS XML vs. HTML in syntax Every XML document must have one root element, i.e., shows…../sho