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Create an alerts system using XMPP, SMS, pureXML, and PHP
Thanks to the native XML support that pureXML offers IBM DB2 database developers, you can load XML data directly into your database, freeing up development time to add functionality to your application. Follow along in this tutorial to import an XML file with Euro foreign exchange rates into an IBM DB2 database and use special XQuery and SQL/XML functions to split this XML into separate database rows. You will also create a PHP script that pulls down new rates from the European Central Bank (ECB) Web site each day. Then you will extend the script to send update alerts to a Google Talk user using the XMPP protocol, and to a cell phone by SMS text message using the Clickatell SMS gateway service. Finally, you will create a PHP script that generates a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) graph of this data.
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24 Nov 2009 |
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Build a Support Knowledge Base using DB2 pureXML and PHP
Creating applications that use a hybrid of relational data and XML data is easy thanks to
the pureXML feature of IBM DB2 database servers.
In this tutorial, you use PHP to create a Web application that connects to an IBM DB2 Express-C
database and stores some of its data in traditional relational database columns, and some of it in native XML columns.
You also learn how to use SQL/XML queries to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data from this database.
Beyond the hands-on, project-based training, the tutorial equips you with the skills
and conceptual knowledge you need to develop your own hybrid applications.
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19 Nov 2009 |
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Using Apache Pivot to build an iTunes search client
Apache Pivot is an open source platform for building rich internet applications (RIAs) in a Java environment. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform. Apache Pivot applications take advantage of WTKX, an XML-based language for user interface design, which makes the application's output easy to visualize. In this tutorial, you will follow the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application that allows a user to execute searches against the contents of the iTunes Store.
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13 Oct 2009 |
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Monitor home energy with AMEE
Electricity is invisible. To understand how people use it, you need to make it visible. This tutorial will show you how easy it is to build a Web-based energy monitoring system yourself, using a Current Cost real-time energy monitor and AMEE, a neutral Web-based API for energy data, combined with some XML, Ruby, Rails, and Ajax.
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29 Sep 2009 |
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Build a pureXML application in DB2 for z/OS, Part
3: Develop stored procedures with Rational Developer for System z
In this tutorial, the third installment in a series, learn how to use
IBM Rational Developer for System z to develop COBOL stored procedures that
manipulate XML data. This tutorial illustrates the XML schema support offered,
and provides step-by-step instructions for creating and testing stored
procedures.
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11 Jun 2009 |
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Build a pureXML application in DB2 for z/OS, Part
2: Web enablement through Universal Services
In this tutorial, set up Web access to your pureXML data through simple
insert, update, delete, select, and query operations known as the Universal
Services. Use the included download bundle with ready-to-install services to
explore the concepts of this tutorial, and learn how to quickly build
application prototypes with the Universal Services.
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04 Jun 2009 |
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Application logging using solidDB, WebSphere Message Broker, and DB2
pureXML
Because of its flexibility and its presence in many application
environments, XML is becoming the preferred log format. In this article,
you'll learn how to easily set up an application logging environment by
bringing the XML features of WebSphere and DB2 together. We first introduce a
simple application logging scenario, then show how to use solidDB for caching
and decoupling the application from the logging infrastructure. WebSphere
Message Queue and WebSphere Message Broker will be used to reliably move the
log messages from the application to DB2, where they can be stored and queried
using the pureXML functionality. To normalize different message formats,
WebSphere Message Broker will also be used to transform log files to other XML
formats prior to storing them into DB2.
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07 May 2009 |
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JiBX 1.2, Part 1: Java code to XML schema
XML schema definitions are the basis for many types of data exchanges, including most forms of Web services. But XML Schema is a complex standard, and most tools for creating and modifying schema definitions are not as powerful or easy to use as those for working with Java code. The new features of JiBX 1.2 let you start from Java code and easily generate quality schema definitions to match your data structures. You can then use the schemas directly, whether you use JiBX data binding or not.
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03 Mar 2009 |
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JiBX 1.2, Part 1: Java code to XML schema
XML schema definitions are the basis for many types of data exchanges, including most forms of Web services. But XML Schema is a complex standard, and most tools for creating and modifying schema definitions are not as powerful or easy to use as those for working with Java code. The new features of JiBX 1.2 let you start from Java code and easily generate quality schema definitions to match your data structures. You can then use the schemas directly, whether you use JiBX data binding or not.
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03 Mar 2009 |
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JiBX 1.2, Part 2: XML schema to Java code
Code generation from XML schema definitions is widely used for all types of XML data exchange, including Web services. Most data-binding tools rigidly structure generated code based on the schema, even aspects of the schema that may be irrelevant to your application. JiBX 1.2 generates cleaner code by doing a better job of interpreting the schema and eliminating unnecessary class clutter. It also provides extensive customizations for the generated code, including customizations for easily eliminating unnecessary components of the schema.
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03 Mar 2009 |
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Build a digital book with EPUB
Need to distribute documentation, create an eBook, or just archive your favorite blog posts? EPUB is an open specification for digital books based on familiar technologies like XML, CSS, and XHTML, and EPUB files can be read on portable e-ink devices, mobile phones, and desktop computers. This tutorial explains the EPUB format in detail, demonstrates EPUB validation using Java technology, and moves step-by-step through automating EPUB creation using DocBook and Python.
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05 Feb 2009 |
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Leveraging RIXML with Web services
Research Information Exchange Markup Language (RIXML) defines a standard XML schema for exchanging content and metadata that tags content with relevant information such as locations, names, and key information types that organizations can use to efficiently perform look-up, sort, and search operations. Discover how the combination of RIXML and Web services provides a powerful mechanism for exchanging key information.
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16 Dec 2008 |
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Advanced XQuery: Creating custom functions
XQuery functions enable you to define common expressions once and reuse them frequently. The end result is tighter, more robust code that is easier to maintain. Using XQuery API for Java (XQJ), this tutorial demonstrates an implementation of XQuery functions within a Java environment.
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11 Nov 2008 |
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An introduction to XML User Interface Language (XUL) development
XUL is a tried and true application framework. In fact, the recently released Firefox 3.0 is not only built using XUL, but provides a XUL runtime environment that enables any Firefox user to run other XUL applications. In this tutorial, you start to program in XUL and learn about some tools to help you develop XUL apps. Build a XUL-based blog editor as you enhance your Web development skills to build desktop apps with XUL.
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04 Nov 2008 |
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Customize a Google Maps result page with Google Mapplets
A Google Mapplet is an application that runs inside a Google Maps results
page and lets you add your own custom information and behavior to the page and the
map. In this tutorial, you will write a Google Mapplet that uses the Yahoo
Weather RSS feed to display the local weather in Google Maps. To demonstrate
different techniques while using the Google Mapplets API, you'll implement two solutions. The first is on the client side and uses RSS and JavaScript. The second is on the server side and uses XSLT, PHP, KML, and JavaScript.
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21 Oct 2008 |
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Create a Yahoo! SearchMonkey application
SearchMonkey is one of the first attempts from a major search engine to make
use of Semantic Web technologies to enhance search results. In this tutorial, you
will implement a Yahoo! SearchMonkey application that enhances blogger.com search
listings to include other information about the blog and blog owner. You will
first implement a basic application using the default data available from Yahoo!.
Then you will create a custom data service to provide your own structured data to
SearchMonkey before you develop a more advanced application that takes advantage of this new custom data service.
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14 Oct 2008 |
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Separate content from presentation with XSLT, SimpleXML, and PHP 5
Over the years, developers have devised many strategies and frameworks to
facilitate the separation of business logic and presentation logic. In this
tutorial, you will explore two solutions to separating data and business logic
from presentation logic: one using XSLT through the XSL module in PHP 5 and the
other using the SimpleXML module in PHP 5. To do this, you'll use a Web page for a personal resume stored as an XML file as an example.
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07 Oct 2008 |
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Develop a dynamic location-based mashup
Mashups are a new, highly interactive Web development methodology. Essentially a mix
of related content put together from disparate sources, mashups provide rich dynamic content
for a superb user experience. Getting Asynchronous
JavaScript + XML (Ajax) and mashup chops into your development toolbox will
benefit you with high demand in the evolving Web 2.0
workspace.
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07 Oct 2008 |
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Advancing with XQuery: Develop application idioms
The XQuery specification is well over a year old now. A surfeit of solid
implementations combined with (if developer chatter is anything to go by) marked new
interest, seems to indicate that XQuery is finally experiencing higher adoption rates.
Possibly this is due to developers starting to figure out how to utilize XQuery within
a rich mixture of XML technologies (such as XML databases. XSLT, XML Schema). Learn how to use XQuery beyond its original role as an XML query language and apply it toward the development of middleware and Web applications.
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30 Sep 2008 |
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Introducing OpenDocument
The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is an XML standard that lets you store and exchange office application documents, including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Whether you try to perform special tasks on files saved from such applications or work on applications to process such files, you should become familiar with this important format. Learn about the two possible forms of OpenDocument files, as multipart packages and as single XML documents, and learn how to structure text and tabular information in OpenDocument.
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22 Jul 2008 |
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Locate specific sections of your XML documents with XPath, Part 2
Part 1 of this tutorial gave you a foundational understanding of XPath. Using slash notation, wildcards, unions, and simple text, you learned how to locate elements and attributes anywhere within an XML document. However, sometimes you need more than just matching based on the name of a node. Predicates give you advanced and refined searching capabilities, allowing you to evaluate the values of attributes and the parent and child nodes of a targeted element. Rather than find a wider node set and refine or filter that set programmatically, you can add predicates to your XPaths to find exactly the nodes you want.
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17 Jun 2008 |
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Locate specific sections of your XML documents with XPath, Part 1
XML is a data format concerned primarily with compatibility and flexibility. But
as useful as XML is, it's limited without the abilities to find specific portions of a
document quickly and to filter and selectively locate data within a document. XPath
provides the ability to easily reference specific text, elements, and attributes within
a document -- and with a fairly low learning curve. Additionally, XPath is key to many other XML vocabularies and technologies, such as XSL and XQuery. This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals of XPath, including all of its various selectors and semantics, in an example-driven and hands-on manner.
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10 Jun 2008 |
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Implement Semantic Web standards in your Web site
With Yahoo's recent announcement that they will implement support of
Semantic Web standards in their search engine, the benefits that the Semantic Web
has for your site have never been clearer. In addition to the existing benefits such as your structured content giving you a free, open-ended API, you now get the opportunity for increased search rankings, and more importantly, increased relevance because the search engine can better understand what the content of your site is about. In this tutorial you will learn to implement a simple social networking site using PHP and MySQL, which will implement Semantic Web standards such as hCard and Friend of a Friend (FOAF) as part of a semantic Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme.
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20 May 2008 |
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Understanding SPARQL
The Semantic Web, a knowledge-centric model for the Web's future, supplements human-readable documents and XML message formats with data that can be understood and processed by machines. SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) is to the semantic Web as SQL is to a relational database. It allows applications to make sophisticated queries against distributed RDF databases, and is widely supported by many competing frameworks. This tutorial demonstrates its use through the example of a team tracking and journaling system for a virtual company.
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15 May 2008 |
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Using XQuery and VoiceXML
XQuery and VoiceXML are a perfect combination. XQuery provides a very
simple and direct method to generate XML documents from other XML documents.
Because you can pick and choose the different elements that you want from the
source XML file, and format the output file in any way you wish, you can easily
produce a VoiceXML document that contains the exact information you need. In
this tutorial, you see how to employ XQuery with XML documents to build complex
and dynamic systems that take input and information from a VoiceXML environment
and combine them with existing XML documents to produce interactive applications.
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06 May 2008 |
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Create an Ajax-based IM client
The ability to instant message (IM) co-workers and friends is a great convenience, but some environments prohibit the use of instant messaging clients in the workplace due to security concerns. The exercise in this tutorial resolves any security concerns by showing you how to use Ajax to create a Web-based IM client that turns IM traffic into plain Web traffic by creating an instant messaging "bot" and a corresponding Web application. While it's not a production application, it demonstrates several nifty Ajax techniques, such as how to use Prototype to do easier DOM manipulation and how to easily update sections of a Web page, either once or repeatedly.
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29 Apr 2008 |
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Build a mobile RSS reader
What good is a mobile computing environment if you can't keep track of your favorite news feeds on the go? Sure, you can use Android's browser to read your favorite Web sites, but it's unlikely the sites are optimized for a screen two inches high. And besides, then you'll miss the opportunity to integrate RSS or other XML data with other mobile applications to make your own mash-ups. This tutorial shows you how to use the Android Developer Tools to read, parse, and display XML data.
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18 Mar 2008 |
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DITA topic specialization
Many resources are available to explain what Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) topic specialization is and the syntax to implement it, but you still might wonder "I have some content that might be a candidate for topic specialization. What's next?" In this tutorial, walk through a series of steps to evaluate your content's suitability for different DITA topic types, specialize one of those types, and test your specialization using the DITA Open Toolkit.
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26 Feb 2008 |
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Create your own information space with Ajax and del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking Web site that allows users to create and
share browser-independent bookmarks, accessible directly over the Internet, in ways
your browser won't allow. The traditional hierarchical organization of browser bookmarks is overhauled, allowing users to instead associate each and every bookmark with any number of descriptive tags. Imagine a single page where you and your friends can surf the Web and have your del.icio.us tags, links, and functions handy, or a single page where you can save the site you're browsing directly into your del.icio.us account, along with comments and chosen tags. This tutorial shows you how to use Ajax to build just such a page using a PHP script as the server-side proxy.
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26 Feb 2008 |
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Create dynamic Firefox user interfaces
When you create browser-based applications that display XML data feeds, you
often need to code the data-retrieval mechanism and the user interface. Mozilla
Firefox provides an infrastructure that frees you from these tasks, so you can concentrate on your application's functionality. Learn how to use Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) to download XML data from a Web server, and discover how you can use Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to transform it dynamically into Firefox user-interface elements expressed in XML User Interface Language (XUL). You can apply these techniques to any application that uses XML data sources.
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15 Jan 2008 |
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Expand the editing capabilities of OpenOffice with XSLT
You might know that you can pull XML data into OpenOffice's spreadsheet program, Calc, but did you know that you can create a filter to make word-processing documents out of data stored as XML? This tutorial shows you how to use OpenOffice's import/export filters to open your XML data as though it's just a plain document. From there, users can edit the document much more naturally and then save it back to its native format. You can also use this feature to easily turn your documents into XML data.
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11 Jan 2008 |
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Write REST services
This tutorial discusses the concepts of REST and the Atom Publishing
Protocol (APP) and shows how they apply to services. It also shows how to use Java technology to implement REST/APP-based services.
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20 Dec 2007 |
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Push RSS to new limits
This tutorial presents an innovative use of the well-known Really Simple
Syndication (RSS) format's associative properties to emulate the functionality of a
simple relational database. It demonstrates using RSS channels to store contact
information and meeting information -- much as a personal address book and calendar
does. It uses RSS elements and attributes such as items and guids to create a neural-network-like mesh of related data.
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18 Dec 2007 |
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Exposing DB2 Version 9 pureXML using WebSphere Integration Developer
IBM offers a set of industry specific Web services that provide operations
to expose the native XML capabilities of DB2. These Web services can be accessed in
a Websphere Integration Developer module that can be used in a work flow to
manipulate your FpML data. Follow step-by-step instructions on how to build, test, and deploy a mediation module that can store well-formed XML documents in a DB2 XML column using a WebSphere Integration Developer
module.
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20 Sep 2007 |
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Made-to-order content with Yahoo Pipes
Explore the steps and benefits of using a content feed filtering utility like Yahoo Pipes to better capture, merge, and alter specific data from available streams. This tutorial outlines some techniques to approach feed transformations, and includes three demonstrations featuring key areas of the environment.
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05 Jun 2007 |
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Building Google gadgets, Part 2: Working with the user interface
Part 2 of the "Building Google gadgets" series introduces the advanced features
of gadgets, including creating a tabbed user interface, drag and drop, and MiniMessages,
and gets you started creating your own.
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22 May 2007 |
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Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 5: Developing liability management functionality
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 5 of this six-part series demonstrates how to create a payables form for liability and payment, and a reports form to analyze billing data and statistics.
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08 May 2007 |
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Building Google gadgets, Part 1: Fundamentals of Google gadgets
In this new Web development series, learn how to develop Google gadgets. Gadgets are small applications that you can add to most any Web page as a means to offer dynamic and rich content. Google has an abundance of gadgets to choose from. However, the most intriguing aspect of gadgets is that you can write them for your own use and then publish them on Google, where other developers can integrate your work into their Web projects.
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24 Apr 2007 |
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Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 4: More asset management and reporting
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 4 of this six-part series demonstrates how to pull together many of the techniques touched on in earlier installments using the example of the order review form and the asset management form, with special privileges for procurement users. It also introduces new techniques for handling real world issues.
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17 Apr 2007 |
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Ruby on Rails and XML
You've very likely heard of Ruby on Rails. Maybe you've actually used it; perhaps it is your new programming mistress. Whatever the case, it looks like Rails is here to stay, and to everyone's benefit. Ruby plays very nicely with XML -- read further for the details.
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17 Apr 2007 |
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Use XML to develop with the Google Web Toolkit
The Google Web Toolkit enables you to use Java(TM) syntax to create the JavaScript(TM) necessary for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) user interfaces. Most of these Ajax applications use XML to transfer information to and from the server, so your application must be able to both parse and create XML data. This tutorial shows you how to manipulate and create XML using the Google Web Toolkit.
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10 Apr 2007 |
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Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 3: Developing asset management functionality
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 3 of this six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with PHP and MySQL to create some tools for interacting with the data of day-to-day business.
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03 Apr 2007 |
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Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 2: Logging in and accounts
This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP for support processing to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. The series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 2 of this six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with PHP and MySQL to create the basic "login," "registration," and "account management" functionality seen in many modern Web applications.
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27 Mar 2007 |
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Understanding DOM
Even before there was XML, there was the Document Object Model, or DOM. It allows a developer to refer to, retrieve, and change items within an XML structure, and is essential to working with XML. In this tutorial, you will learn about the structure of a DOM document. You will also learn how to use Java technology to create a Document from an XML file, make changes to it, and retrieve the output.
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12 Mar 2007 |
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The ultimate mashup -- Web services and the semantic Web, Part 5: Change out Web services
This series details the creation of a mashup application that gives control over the data displayed back to the user. Now that you know how to create an ontology that defines the concepts represented by a service, you can enable users to choose which service they want to use.
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08 Mar 2007 |
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The ultimate mashup -- Web services and the semantic Web, Part 4: Create an ontology
This series details the creation of a mashup application that gives control over the data displayed back to the user; to do that, you need to build in intelligence. Now that you know how to represent information in RDF, you can start to create an ontology using the XML-based Web Ontology Language (OWL), which will enable you to automatically choose between services and parts of services.
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08 Mar 2007 |
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Introduction to XSLT
The need to transform XML is so common that Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is considered one of the basic XML specifications. This tutorial explains how to create XSLT stylesheets. It also covers the basics of XPath, which enables you to select specific parts of an XML document. Finally, it gives you a look at some of the more advanced capabilities that XSLT offers.
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23 Jan 2007 |
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Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 7: Better IT management
The IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE) facilitates a model-driven approach to touchpoint development, which is a useful, factory-style, wizard-assisted pattern for producing generic touchpoints. However, at some point in the AIDE-driven workflow, the touchpoint must be made specific to a given application. You can do this either at the model design stage or manually through hard-coding. In this tutorial -- the seventh in the series -- discover techniques for creating both generic and specific touchpoints, and learn how to produce touchpoints that have the right mixture for a given management application.
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19 Dec 2006 |
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Build a shopping cart application using XForms
This tutorial focuses on key aspects of the W3C XForms 1.0 standard to produce a fully functional Web-based shopping cart. With this approach, the reader will get a good start at creating real-world applications with XForms, without having to learn the entire XForms specification.
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12 Dec 2006 |
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Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 6: Build an autonomic computing system
This tutorial -- the sixth in the series -- introduces two key elements of the IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE): Apache Tomcat and Axis. Discover tooling-related gaps that the AIDE online help doesn't cover so that you can become more comfortable with the way the toolkit uses the standard open source components.
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14 Nov 2006 |
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XML and Related Technologies certification prep, Part 5: XML testing and tuning
This tutorial on XML testing and tuning is the final tutorial in a series that helps you prepare for the IBM certification Test 142, XML and Related Technologies. This tutorial provides tips and hints for how to choose an appropriate XML technology and optimize transformations. It wraps up with coverage of common tools you can use in testing XML designs.
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23 Oct 2006 |
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XML and Related Technologies certification prep, Part 4: XML transformations
When an application needs to share data with another system, it is often necessary to transform an XML document into another XML format, governed by a differing XML Schema or Document Type Definition (DTD). When an application is required to share or display XML data to a user, the XML document might be transformed into HTML, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), VoiceXML, plain text, or any of a large number of human-readable formats. This XML certification tutorial deals with the XML transformations that make this happen by demonstrating the use of XSLT, XPath, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
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10 Oct 2006 |
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Design XML schemas for enterprise data
This tutorial teaches you how to use W3C XML Schema features in different types of enterprise applications. You'll learn when, why, and how to use simple and complex types, regular expressions, unions, lists, and substitution groups while designing data formats for your enterprise applications. You'll also learn how to build multiple file schemas, use external schemas in your XML design, and reuse other schema designers' experience by deploying XML design patterns.
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03 Oct 2006 |
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XML and Related Technologies certification prep, Part 3: XML processing
Parsing and validation represent the core of XML. Knowing how to use these capabilities well is vital to the successful introduction of XML to your project. This tutorial on XML processing teaches you how to parse and validate XML files as well as use XQuery. It is the third tutorial in a series of five tutorials that you can use to help prepare for the IBM certification Test 142, XML and Related Technologies.
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26 Sep 2006 |
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XML and Related Technologies certification prep, Part 2: Information modeling
This tutorial on information modeling is the second in a series of five tutorials that can help you prepare for the IBM certification Test 142, XML and Related Technologies. This tutorial analyzes XML data, contrasts narrative documents with record-like documents, and models a small data problem using Document Type Definition (DTD) grammar and several iterations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML Schema. It finishes with a comparison of DTD and XML Schema to help you choose one or the other in your design.
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12 Sep 2006 |
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Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 5: Build an autonomic computing system
This tutorial -- the fifth in the series -- illustrates the management of Apache
Derby databases using touchpoint technology. Learn how to use a touchpoint that contains a
working instance of Derby, and work through a management interface to a Derby database
instance as a Web service-based managed object. You interact with this touchpoint using
the IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE) resource browser and
a Derby Java client program.
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05 Sep 2006 |
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XML and Related Technologies certification prep, Part 1: Architecture
A software system's architecture and performance requirements affect your decision of which XML technologies are most appropriate for your application's needs. This tutorial on architecture teaches you how to discern where and when to use XML in system design. It is the first tutorial in a series of five tutorials that you can use to help prepare for the IBM certification Test 142, XML and Related Technologies.
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29 Aug 2006 |
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Automate XML file updates, Part 1: XML Process introduction and conversion stylesheet creation
This is the first part of a tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. In Part 1, you learn the steps in the entire process and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. In Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Apache Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Automate XML file updates, Part 2: Use Apache Ant and conversion stylesheets to update your XML
This is the second part of a tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. In Part 1, you learn the steps of the entire process, and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. Here, in Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Automate XML file updates, Part 1: XML process introduction and conversion stylesheet creation
This is the first part of a tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. In Part 1, you learn the steps in the entire process and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. In Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Apache Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Automate XML file updates, Part 2: Use Apache Ant and conversion stylesheets to update your XML
This is the second part of a tutorial series that describes a method for automating updates to a library of XML files so that they all conform to an updated XML schema. In Part 1, you learn the steps of the entire process, and then create an XSLT stylesheet to update the XML files. Here, in Part 2, you learn to install, configure, and run Ant and Java SE to iteratively transform each of your XML files based on the updates specified in your XSLT stylesheet.
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17 Aug 2006 |
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Dynamic SVG features for browsers
Learn how to use dynamic features of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to provide useful and attractive effects in your Web applications. SVG 1.1, an XML language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, provides a practical and flexible graphics format in XML. Many SVG features provide for dynamic effects, including features for integration into a Web browser. Uche Ogbuji builds on basic SVG techniques introduced in a previous tutorial.
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15 Aug 2006 |
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Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 4: Touchpoint notifications and a simple manager
This tutorial, the fourth in the series, describes how to create a touchpoint that maps instrumented notifications into their touchpoint equivalent. The previous tutorial in this series described how to implement simple GET and SET operations in the touchpoint. This tutorial completes the picture by adding notification handling and paves the way for more complete interaction between your touchpoints and the underlying managed resources. You also learn how to programmatically manipulate a set of touchpoints which lays the foundation for creating a simple autonomic manager.
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18 Jul 2006 |
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Podcasting for developers
Many articles and books on podcasting assume that you have experience with sound recording, you can recognize XLR cables, and you understand decibels. Consequently, they spend a lot of time discussing the computer-specific aspects, such as MP3 encoding and hosting Really Simple Syndication (RSS) files, and comparatively little on the audio aspects. If you search on audio, you find plenty of articles on audio recording for musicians and home studio. Some of that material is useful but, again, the tendency is to assume that computers are the difficult bit. What makes this tutorial unique is that it is written by a developer, for developers. So it assumes that you can handle the developer's tasks (such as writing the RSS feed) and concentrates on the novelty: the use of audio.
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27 Jun 2006 |
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Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 3: Touchpoint and managed resource integration
This tutorial, the third in a series on the IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE), describes a basic touchpoint interface for a managed resource. Discover how Eclipse supports the workflows for such development with TODO items and learn how to provide a touchpoint-based platform for arbitrary managed resource management -- a topic that has dogged the telecom and enterprise management arenas for decades.
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27 Jun 2006 |
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Create vector graphics in the browser with SVG
Learn step-by-step how to incorporate Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) into Web pages using real browser examples. SVG 1.1, an XML language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, provides a practical and flexible graphics format in XML, despite the language's verbosity. Several browsers recently completed or announced built-in SVG support.
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20 Jun 2006 |
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The Ajax transport method
Discover three Ajax data transport mechanisms (XMLHttp, script tags, and frames or iframes) and their relative strengths and weaknesses. This tutorial provides code for both the server side and the client side and explains it in detail to provide the techniques you need to put efficient Ajax controls anywhere you need them.
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06 Jun 2006 |
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Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 2: Build a real-world touchpoint
This tutorial -- the second in series on AIDE -- moves beyond the basics of building touchpoints using the IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE) toolkit and covers the use of events and IT management technologies (specifically the Java Management Extensions) and demonstrates how to connect external value-added Java tools to autonomic computing touchpoints. I'll focus on how to tackle the problem of linking autonomic computing touchpoints with external JMX-instrumented software.
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23 May 2006 |
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Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 1: Building a touchpoint
This tutorial, the first in a series on the IBM Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE), shows how you can get up and running quickly with the IBM AIDE toolkit. Discover touchpoint creation, modification, and deployment and learn about the internals of the touchpoint in relation to the underlying model.
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18 Apr 2006 |
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Secure XML messaging with JMS, Part 2: Using XSS4J to implement XML Security
Java Message Service (JMS) is a Java language-based messaging API. XML provides a simple, human-readable data format for information exchange, and is a popular syntax for the formating of enterprise data. Therefore, integrating XML into JMS applications can provide significant advantages in enterprise applications. This tutorial demonstrates the use of XML Security Suite for Java (XSS4J) to achieve secure XML messaging over an existing JMS network.
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21 Feb 2006 |
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User annotations in Ajax
The ability to add notes and comments to your Web site can be a powerful and attractive feature for users. This tutorial demonstrates how to implement an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)-based user annotation system in the form of yellow sticky notes that sit on top of regular Web page content. The only additional, required configuration is a back-end Perl script that stores the annotations
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31 Jan 2006 |
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Process Atom 1.0 with XSLT
Atom 1.0 is the emerging Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard for Web feeds -- information updates on Web site contents. Since Atom is an XML format, XSLT is a powerful tool for processing it. In this tutorial, Uche Ogbuji looks at XSLT techniques for processing Atom documents, addressing real-life use cases.
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13 Dec 2005 |
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Secure XML messaging with JMS: Secure XML messaging with JMS, Part 1: Extending JMS to support XML authoring and processing
Java Message Service (JMS) is a Java language-based messaging API. XML provides a simple, human-readable data format for information exchange, and is a popular syntax for the formatting of enterprise data. Therefore, integrating XML into JMS applications can provide significant advantages in enterprise applications. This tutorial teaches you how to include support for secure XML messaging over an existing JMS network.
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22 Nov 2005 |
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Build apps using Asynchronous JavaScript with XML (AJAX)
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript with XML) enables a dynamic, asynchronous Web experience without the need for page refreshes. In this tutorial, you will learn to build AJAX-based Web applications -- complete with real time validation and without page refreshes -- by following the construction of a sample book order application.
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15 Nov 2005 |
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Develop apps with Web services and the eBay SDK, Part 3: Develop eBay applications with PHP5 and Web services
Create applications in PHP5 that interact with eBay through Web services. Almost half of eBay's transactions occur through its Web services platform. In this tutorial, you'll acquire a solid understanding of the mechanics of the eBay XML API and learn how to use the Services_Ebay PHP extension.
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08 Nov 2005 |
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Using Ajax with PHP and Sajax
For years, the goal of creating a truly responsive Web application was hampered by one simple fact of Web development: To change the information on part of a page, a user must reload the entire page. Not anymore. Thanks to asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), we can now request new content from the server and change just part of a page. This tutorial explains how to use Ajax with PHP and introduces the Simple Ajax Toolkit (Sajax), a tool written in PHP that lets you integrate server-side PHP with JavaScript that makes this work.
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18 Oct 2005 |
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Policy Management for Autonomic Computing: Solve a business problem using PMAC
This tutorial is written for IT Administrators who want to create new policies that define business rules and scenarios. After explaining some of the rudimentary concepts associated with a policy document, the tutorial describes a few fictional business scenarios. The tutorial then breaks the pieces of these scenarios into their policy-related components. Meanwhile, the policy Extensible Markup Language (XML) will be written and put together into functional policy documents.
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20 Sep 2005 |
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XHTML, step-by-step
Get started working with Extensible Hypertext Markup Language. XHTML is a language based on HTML, but expressed in well-formed XML. But XHTML is much more than just regularizing tags and characters -- XHTML can alter the way you approach Web design. This tutorial gives step-by-step instruction for developers familiar with HTML who want to learn how to use XHTML in practical Web sites.
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06 Sep 2005 |
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IBM XML certification success, Part 3: Review objectives of IBM XML certification
Get a detailed look at the objectives of the IBM Certified Solution Developer Exam for XML and Related Technologies, and learn how specific XML technologies map to the objectives prescribed for this exam. This is the final installment of a three-part tutorial series designed specifically for those interested in XML certification. As in the first two parts of this series, authors Pradeep Chopra and Hari Vignesh Padmanaban wrap up each section with relevant examples, practice exercises, and exam tips to guide you to certification success.
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23 Aug 2005 |
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Display XML with Cascading Stylesheets: Use Cascading Stylesheets to display XML, Part 3: Combine XSLT and CSS to process XML
In Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial series, Uche Ogbuji has shown how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic and advanced techniques. Although some people see XSLT and CSS as opposing technologies, they are actually very complementary. CSS cannot, and is not designed to, handle many XML rendering tasks. You can use XSLT for many such tasks, and even manage the CSS that is still used to fine-tune the presentation. This tutorial covers techniques for using XSLT to process XML in association with CSS.
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20 Jun 2005 |
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IBM XML certification success, Part 2: Prepare for IBM XML certification with more technologies
This is the second part of a three-part tutorial series designed specifically for those interested in taking the IBM Certified Solution Developer Exam for XML and Related Technologies. Here, authors Pradeep Chopra and Hari Vignesh Padmanaban follow up on the lessons in Part 1 by introducing the reader to several more critical XML technologies like XPath, XSLT, XLink, XPointer, CSS, XSL-FO, SAX, and DOM. Furthermore, the authors reinforce the reader's understanding through examples and exercises.
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31 May 2005 |
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IBM XML certification success, Part 1: Prepare for IBM XML certification with XML basics
This is the first part of a three-part tutorial series designed specifically for those interested in taking the IBM Certified Solution Developer Exam for XML and Related Technologies. Here, authors Pradeep Chopra and Hari Vignesh Padmanaban help you prepare for the exam with explanations, examples, practice questions, and tips that cover the following topics: XML basics, Document Type Definitions (DTDs), W3C XML Schema, Web services, and security.
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18 Mar 2005 |
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Display XML with Cascading Stylesheets: Use Cascading Stylesheets to display XML, Part 2: Advanced techniques to present XML in Web browsers
In a previous tutorial, Uche Ogbuji showed how to use Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) to display XML in browsers, presenting basic techniques. However, as anyone who has tried to master CSS even in the world of HTML and JavaScript can attest, there are numerous tricks, traps and nuances. The same is true when using CSS with XML. This tutorial builds on the basics in the earlier one to cover such intermediate and advanced topics.
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25 Feb 2005 |
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Using JSF technology for XForms applications
This comprehensive hands-on tutorial by Java enterprise developer Faheem Khan examines how XForms authoring requirements fit into the JSF architecture. The author begins with a solid overview of JSF technology, then identifies the tasks you must perform if you plan to use JSF technology for XForms authoring, and demonstrates the development of a JSF tag library capable of authoring XForms markup. Throughout the tutorial, he guides your learning with a sample application to help you see the concepts put to work in a real-world application. Note: This tutorial is comprehensive and will take a significant time investment to complete.
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03 Feb 2005 |
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Display XML with Cascading Stylesheets: Use Cascading Stylesheets to display XML, Part 1: Basic techniques to present XML in Web browsers
Cascading Stylesheets (CSS) are well known as the most standards-compliant means of manipulating the look of HTML Web pages. They also happen to be the most practical way of displaying XML in browsers. Browsers have included support for CSS applied to XML much longer than XSLT, and the CSS implementations are generally more complete and reliable. This tutorial shows how to use CSS to present XML in Web browsers.
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30 Nov 2004 |
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Use XQuery to transform an XML vocabulary into RDF
This tutorial shows you how to use XQuery to transform a specific XML vocabulary into RDF using RDF/XML as an intermediary medium. The query that you'll develop exhibits a number of basic XQuery syntactic features. The syntactic mechanisms discussed are useful both in this particular exercise and in transforming between XML vocabularies in general. A discussion of available tools covers several common XQuery processors, as well as an online RDF validation service that's used to check the correctness of the final RDF. RDF and RDF/XML are explained in sufficient detail (albeit briefly) that novice readers should be able to understand the context of what's going on.
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27 Sep 2004 |
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A hands-on introduction to Schematron
Meet Schematron, a schema language that allows you to directly express rules without creating a whole grammatical infrastructure. Schematron is useful whenever you wish to apply and check against rules for the contents of XML documents. Schematron is extraordinarily flexible in the variety of rules you can express, and it's even more expressive than other schema languages such as DTD, W3C XML Schema (WXS) and RELAX NG. In this tutorial, author Uche Ogbuji uses detailed examples to illustrate Schematron's use, and offers recipes for common schema needs.
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02 Sep 2004 |
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Analyze with XSLT: Tie in data with Web services and XSL Transformations
In Part 5 of this tutorial series on analyzing data with XSLT, the MindMap Research Team decides to tie their data in with other services, pulling information from Amazon Web Services in response to information unearthed in the analysis. Web services provide information in XML, but it's rarely in the form that you want it, so this tutorial explains how to create an application that not only retrieves the Amazon data but also transforms it into XHTML and outputs it to the browser. The stylesheet shows how to pull XML information from multiple sources within a single transformation and also includes a device that alerts developers when Amazon changes the Web service, since changes in the feed can break the application.
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17 Aug 2004 |
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XML programming in Java technology, Part 3
This advanced tutorial covers more sophisticated topics for manipulating XML documents with Java technology. Author Doug Tidwell shows you how to do tasks such as generate XML data structures, manipulate those structures, and interface XML parsers with non-XML data sources. As you'd expect, all of the examples are based on open standards.
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16 Jul 2004 |
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XML programming in Java technology, Part 2
In an earlier tutorial, Doug Tidwell looked at the basics of XML parsing in the Java language. He covered the major APIs (DOM, SAX, and JDOM), and went through a number of examples that demonstrated the basic tasks common to most XML applications. In this tutorial, he looks at more difficult things that weren't covered in Part 1, such as working with namespaces, validating XML documents, building XML structures without a typical XML document, converting between one API and another, and manipulating tree structures. He also shows you some of the more esoteric features of DOM, SAX, JDOM, and JAXP.
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09 Jul 2004 |
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Start developing CCXML applications
This tutorial offers an insight into the new Call Control XML (CCXML) language. This language enhances the telephony industry by allowing development of call control functionality, irrespective of the base proprietary telephony system.
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24 Jun 2004 |
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Get started with XPath
This tutorial introduces the W3C standard, XPath. It is aimed at people who do not know XPath or who want a refresher. If you plan to use XSLT, you should take this tutorial first. You will learn what XPath is, the syntax and semantics of the XPath language, how to use XPath location paths, how to use XPath expressions, how to use XPath functions, and how XPath relates to XSLT. This tutorial covers XPath Version 1.0.
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11 May 2004 |
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Analyze with XSLT: Create 3D representations with XSLT and SVG
In Part 4 of this series on analyzing data with XSLT, the MindMap Research Team realized that the cognitive data they're analyzing might be easier to understand if represented in the 3D space for which it is intended. The team decides to use XSLT to transform it into a 3D graph so changing the viewpoint changes the view of the data. This tutorial shows how to implement this from a command line and using a browser to display the results.
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27 Apr 2004 |
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Analyze with XSLT: Layer XSLT stylesheets
In this third tutorial in a multi-part series on the benefits of using XSLT, the MindMap Team discovers the need to perform some analyses that require procedural techniques. Because XSLT is not a procedural language, this tutorial explains how to layer and use chain transformations to get around some of the limitations this structure provides. The tutorial demonstrates how to use named templates to mimic side effects, and how external documents are layered together to interoperate.
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16 Mar 2004 |
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Introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) makes it possible to specify, using text, graphical images that appear on a Web page. The advantages are many, including the ability to easily generate graphics (such as graphs and charts) from database information, and the ability to add animation and interactivity to graphics. This tutorial demonstrates the concepts necessary for building SVG documents, such as basic shapes, paths, text, and painting models, and also animation and scripting.
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01 Mar 2004 |
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Analyze with XSLT: XSLT as an analysis tool
XSLT is meant to change the form of XML, but you can also use it to perform analysis. In this tutorial, the second in a series, the MindMap team creates a system that enables them to pass parameters that not only determine the properties to analyze but also change the desired criteria using Web-based forms. And because it's all in an XSLT stylesheet, the team can change the algorithm or output without recompiling the application.
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10 Feb 2004 |
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XML programming in Java technology, Part 1
This updated tutorial covers the basics of manipulating XML documents using Java technology. Doug Tidwell looks at the common APIs for XML and discusses how to parse, create, manipulate, and transform XML documents.
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13 Jan 2004 |
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Analyze with XSLT: Analyze non-XML data with XSLT
This tutorial explores how to create string parsing routines in XSLT so that you can tokenize straight, non-XML text, thus turning that text into a series of XML elements. Specifically, this tutorial examines how to convert such documents as weblogs and Web configuration files into XML for improved readability and programmatic access.
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16 Dec 2003 |
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Understanding RELAX NG
As many developers get frustrated with both the limitations of DTDs and the complexity of XML Schemas, many are gravitating towards RELAX NG. This tutorial gets you up to speed on both RELAX NG's simplicity and it's power, looking at both its full XML-based and its compact syntax.
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04 Dec 2003 |
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DOM NodeFilters and XML data binding
Using a DOM NodeFilter lets you control the contents of a set of XML data without touching the base application, but the NodeFilter itself is still a class, and needs to be recompiled in order to make any non-trivial changes. This tutorial explains how to build a system that enables a user to control both the criteria for a report and the structure of that criteria simply by providing XML input, either through a file or through a web service, using XML Data Binding.
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28 Oct 2003 |
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