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Summary of Material
| Motivation and Goals |
| XML Overview |
| XML Basic Concepts |
| Document Type Definition (DTD) |
| XML Schema |
| Extensible Style Language (XSL) |
| Languages Based on XML |
| XML Tools |
| Future |
| XML Resources |
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CPS714 - Introduction to XML
Contents
Motivation
Goals
XML - Overview
XML Basic Concepts
Elements
Attributes
Processing Instructions
Documents
Documents
Documents - Example
Document Object Model
Document Object Model - Example
Document Object Model - Example
Namespaces
Namespaces - Declaration
XML Data Islands
Document Type Definition
Document Type Definition - Example
XML Schema
XML Schema - Example
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
XSL - Example
XSL - Style Sheets
XSL Patterns
XSL Patterns - Example
Languages Based on XML
SMIL - General Information
SMIL - Basic Concepts
SMIL - Example Document
SMIL - Example
XML Tools
XML Editor - Example
Future
Resources
Outside Index
Summary of Material
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| Lukasz Beca |
| beca@npac.syr.edu |
| 3-287 CST |
| NPAC, Syracuse University |
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| Motivation and Goals |
| XML Overview |
| XML Basic Concepts |
| Document Type Definition (DTD) |
| XML Schema |
| Extensible Style Language (XSL) |
| Languages Based on XML |
| XML Tools |
| Future |
| XML Resources |
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| Better search results |
| Presenting various views for the same data |
| Integration of data from different sources |
| Easy use over the Internet |
| Easy application development that process documents |
| Documents readable by humans |
| Documents easy to create |
| Interchange of data |
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| Extensible Markup Language - Subset of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) |
| Universal format for describing structured data on the Web |
| Specification developed by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) supervised by XML Working Group |
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| Elements |
| Attributes |
| Processing Instructions |
| Documents |
| Document Object Model |
| Namespaces |
| Data Islands |
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| Format: start tag, end tag, and data |
| The tags describe the data contained between tags |
| The data within the tags is the value of the element |
| <title>The Fish Slapping Dance</title> |
| <dance>The Fish Slapping Dance</dance> |
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| Attributes associate name-value pairs with elements |
| Attributes may appear only within start-tags and empty-element tags |
| <size unit="KB"</size> |
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| <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mystyle.xsl"?> |
| Mechanism for by-passing the normal operation of an XML processor and delivering instructions directly to a process whose responsibility it is to interpret the instruction and act accordingly |
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| Document is an XML element that can (or not) contain other nested XML elements |
| <clip> |
| <title>The Fish Slapping Dance<title> |
| <authors>Monty Python</authors> |
| <format>avi</format> |
| <size unit="KB"</size> |
| <priceinfo> |
| <regprice unit="US dollars"ᡇ</regprice> |
| <ourpriceᡂ</ourprice> |
| </priceinfo> |
| </clip> |
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| Well-formed document: obeys the syntax of XML |
| Valid documents: a well-formed document that contains a proper document type declaration and obeys the constraints of that declaration |
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| The example shows plain XML document displayed in Internet Explorer 5.0 |
| URL: |
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/samples/transform-viewer/auction1.xml |
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| Programming API for XML documents |
| Describes logical structure of document and the way a document is accessed and manipulated |
| Defines naming convention for document components |
| Enables straightforward access to the document components |
| Implemented by the tools that enable manipulation of XML documents |
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| root = doc.getDocumentElement(); |
| //print tag name |
| System.out.println(root.getTagName()); |
| //get first child element of the root |
| docElem = (Node) root.getFirstChild(); |
| //print tag name |
| System.out.println(docElem.getTagName()); |
| //print element type |
| System.out.println(docElem.getNodeType()); |
| //print node value |
| docElem1 = (Text) docElem.getFirstChild(); |
| System.out.println(docElem1.getNodeValue()); |
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| Collection of related XML elements and attributes identified by a URI reference |
| Mechanism for solving elements and attributes name conflicts |
| <title>The Fish Slapping Dance</title> |
| <title>Mr</title> |
| <ClipInfo:title>The Fish Slapping Dance</title> |
| <PersonInfo:title>Mr</title> |
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| Default declaration |
| <clip xmlns="urn:Clip.org:ClipInfo"> |
| <title></title> |
| </clip> |
| Explicit declaration |
| <cl:clip xmlns:cl="urn:Clip.org:ClipInfo" |
| xmlns:money="urn:Finance:Money"> |
| <cl:title>The Fish Slapping Dance</cl:title> |
| <cl:price money:currency="US dollar"ᡆ.76</cl:price> |
| </cl:clip> |
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| XML code embedded in an HTML page |
| Enables integration of XML with HTML page (XML data can be accessed by scripts) |
| Contains well-formed XML document within <XML> </XML> tags |
| <XML ID="clipXML"> |
| <clip> |
| <title>The Fish Slapping Dance</title> |
| <size unit="KB"</size> |
| </clip> |
| </XML> |
| clipXML.documentElement.childNodes.item(0).text |
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| Grammar for tag language |
| Defines the rules governing the relations between elements and attributes |
Used for:
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| Association with XML document: |
| <!DOCTYPE clip SYSTEM "clipdef.dtd"> |
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| <!DOCTYPE clip [ |
| <!ELEMENT clip (title,size)> |
| <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)> |
| <!ELEMENT size (#PCDATA)> |
| <!ATTLIST size unit CDATA #REQUIRED> |
| ]> |
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| Provides nearly the same functionality as Document Type Definition |
| Uses XML syntax |
| Schema authors can add their own elements and attributes to XML Schema documents |
| Enables element and attribute typing and assigning default values |
| Association with XML document: |
| <clip xmlns="x-schema:clipSchema.xml"> |
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| <Schema xmlns="urn:schemas-npac-edu:clip-data" |
| xmlns:dt="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:datatypes"> |
| <AttributeType name="unit" dt:type="string" required="yes"/> |
| <ElementType name="title" content="textOnly" |
| dt:type="string"/> |
| <ElementType name="size" content="textOnly" dt:type="int"> |
| <attribute type="unit"/> |
| </ElementType> |
| <ElementType name="clip" content="eltOnly"> |
| <element type="title"/> |
| <element type="size"/> |
| </ElementType> |
| </Schema> |
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| Enables display of XML by transforming XML into structure suitable for display, for example HTML |
| XSL transformations can be executed on the server to provide HTML documents for older browsers |
| Provides mechanisms for transformation of XML data from one schema to another |
| Enables converting XML documents through querying, sorting, and filtering |
| Association with XML document: |
| <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"href="mystyle.xsl"?> |
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| The example illustrates how the XSL document is applied to XML document and displayed in the Web browser |
| The example must be viewed using Internet Explorer 5.0 |
| URL: |
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/samples/transform-viewer/transform-viewer.htm |
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| Contain a template of the desired result structure |
| Identify data in the source document to insert into the template |
| Example: Fragments of XSL document define how elements of XML document should be transformed into HTML document |
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| Simple query language for identifying nodes in an XML document |
Identify nodes depending on:
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| The example shows how the parts of the XML document can be identified using XSL patterns |
| The example must be displayed in Internet Explorer 5.0 |
| URL: |
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/samples/authors/author-patterns.htm |
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| Resource Description Framework (RDF) standard for metadata exchange, enables better content searching on the Web |
| Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) enables simple authoring of TV-like multimedia presentations such as training courses on the Web |
| Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML |
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| Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language - allows integrating a set of multimedia objects into a synchronized multimedia presentation |
SMIL provides mechanisms for
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| Layout: the layout of the visual clips can be defined, the clips can be assigned to the predefined separate regions |
| Clip playback: the clips can be played from various sources and in different modes |
| Clip temporal dependency: the clips can be played in parallel or sequential manner |
| Hyperlinks: a clip can be connected to another clip or presentation |
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| <smil> |
| <head> |
| <layout> |
| <root-layout background-color="blue" width="200" height="300"/> |
| <region id="videoregion" top="10" left="10" width="180" height="180"/> |
| </layout> |
| </head> |
| <body> |
| <par repeat="3"> |
| <video src="video.rm" region="videoregion"/> |
| <audio src="audio.rm"/> |
| </par> |
| </body> |
| </smil> |
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| The example shows a presentation created using SMIL |
| The presentation is displayed using RealPlayer from RealNetworks |
| The file with presentation is available from: |
| http://www10.real.com/devzone/library/creating/smil/production.html |
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Parsers, used for accessing, analyzing and transforming XML documents (Sun, Microsoft, IBM)
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| Editors, used for creating XML content (Microsoft, IBM) |
| Java APIs for XML (Sun) |
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| The example demonstrates abilities of XML Notepad |
| The XML Notepad is available from: |
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/notepad/download.asp |
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Completion of XML-related specifications:
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| XML as a standard format for data storage and Internet delivery |
| Proliferation of XML-based languages for various industry and research domains |
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| InternetExplorer 5.0 and XML/XSL tutorials: |
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/ |
| Specifications: |
| http://www.w3.org |
| More tutorials and informations for developers: |
| http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/filters/xml/ |
| http://www.xml.com |
| Resources at NPAC: |
| http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/tutorials/XML/ |