XML Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools

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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.  Read more... Abstract: 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 Content: Credits Author Contributors 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 Looking at XML Documents 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 Display an XML Document in a Web Browser Apply Style to an XML Document with CSS Processing Instructions Cascading Style Sheets. Applying a Stylesheet to an XML DocumentSee Also Use Character and Entity References Character References The xml:lang attribute Entity References Examine XML Documents in Text Editors Vim Emacs with nXML See Also Explore XML Documents in Graphical Editors xmlspy xRay2 See Also Choose Tools for Creating an XML Vocabulary Well-Formedness, Validation, and Schemas DTD Other schema languages Namespaces See Also Test XML Documents Online RUWF RXP Brown University's Validation Form Test XML Documents from the Command Line RXP xmlvalid xmllint xmlwf. Run Java Programs that Process XMLJAR Files The Java Classpath Using a JAR File as an Executable on Windows 2000 or XP Creating XML Documents Edit XML Documents with 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 Edit XML with Vim Basic Configuration Syntax Highlighting Indentation Folding Automation See Also Edit XML Documents with Microsoft Word 2003 Attaching Schemas to Word Using XSLT with Word 2003. Saving Word 2003 Files as XMLSee Also Work with XML in Microsoft Excel 2003 See Also Work with XML in Microsoft Access 2003 See Also Convert Microsoft Office Files, Old or New, to?XML DocBook Create an XML Document from a Text File with?xmlspy See Also Convert Text to XML with Uphill Trying It Out How the Code Works The markup class The uphill class Summary See Also Create Well-Formed XML with Minimal Manual Tagging Using an SGML Parser From HTML to XML Marking Up the Names of People See Also Create an XML Document from a CSV File See Also. Convert an HTML Document to XHTML with HTML TidyTransform Documents with XQuery See Also 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 Include Text and Documents with Entities Unparsed Entities and Notations Include External Documents with XInclude See Also Encode XML Documents ISO/IEC 8859 UTF-8 and UTF-16 The Byte Order Mark See Also Explore XLink and XML XML Base XLink Other XLink Functionality Extended links XLink linkbases See Also.