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New to XML
Need help getting started with XML? The XML zone on developerWorks contains articles, tutorials, and tips to help developers with XML-based development. For users trying to find their way in a new topic, all of that information can be overwhelming. This page provides an overview for readers who want to learn about XML, but don't know where to start. This page helps you get organized and on your way -- whether you want to understand what XML is all about, explore Ajax, mashups or RSS, or prepare for XML certification.
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19 Nov 2009 |
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Index of XML standards
The world of XML is vast and growing, with a huge variety of standards and technologies that interact in complex ways. It can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML, and for users to keep track of new entries and changes in the space. XML is a basic syntax upon which you develop local and global vocabularies. This index provides a detailed cross-reference of many XML standards, including links to additional coverage for each.
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19 Nov 2009 |
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Thinking XML: Firefox 3.0 and XML
Mozilla continues to improve its flagship browser and the latest major release,
Firefox 3.0, offers something for just about everyone. XML developers were certainly
not left out -- the new version improves basic parsing, DOM, XSLT, SVG, and more. In this article, learn of the new features Firefox 3.0 offers for XML processing; pay close attention to how the added EXSLT extensions open up fresh possibilities for XSLT on the browser.
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29 Jul 2008 |
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Ten XML Schemas you should know
In this article, look at some top XML schemas that provide solutions for all sorts of problems, from the basics of Web services to data description. You'll also cover database-like solutions that involve contacts and invoices. The schemas in this article were chosen for their usefulness and utility, plus their impact on the XML community in how information is shared and exchanged using the XML format.
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01 Jul 2008 |
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Program with XML for DB2, Part 3: Program with XML in the client
Learn how to extend the XML model in order to create rich clients using XML
data transferred from your application server. Discover how to use
Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to present the XML, XPath to navigate the XML and the Document Object Model
(DOM) to modify and serialize the XML back to the application server.
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16 Aug 2007 |
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Creating an XForms-based logo generator
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) provides an easy way to declaratively create an image using XML, and XForms provides an easy way to edit XML. In this article you will put the two together to create an XForms-based XVG editor for creating SVG images such as logos.
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20 Feb 2007 |
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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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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 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 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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Practical business graphing with SVG and XML
Learn to build business graphs using XML, PHP and the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) standard. The SVG standard gives your graphics infinite vector scalability, visual effects, and even scripted interactivity.
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18 Jul 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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XML in Firefox 1.5, Part 1: Overview of XML features
The open source Firefox Web browser continues to grow in popularity. Users like the security and convenience features it offers. Developers like the Firefox attention to standards compliance, inherited from its Mozilla roots. The most recent version, Firefox 1.5, comes with many features for XML developers, including XML parsing, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, SVG, XML Events in JavaScript, and XForms. Additional third-party extensions provide even more XML support. In this article, Uche Ogbuji provides an overview of XML features in Firefox 1.5.
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21 Mar 2006 |
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XML Matters: SVG and the scriptless script
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) browsers are becoming mainstream now, and they can be used in many powerful ways. Continuing on from David's earlier SVG column, Dethe looks at some of the ways that declarative markup can replace script for animation and other common scripting tasks. In the process, he briefly looks at replacing script with declarative markup in other XML dialects. Moving common scripting tasks into declarative markup can eliminate the need for tedious boilerplate code, reduce errors, and make your script's intent easier to follow, freeing you to focus on your code's unique aspects.
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25 Oct 2005 |
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XML Matters: Program with SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML format that describes scale-independent graphics, with good support in free software and commercial tools. In this installment, David introduces scripting and animation with SVG, and touches on manipulating SVG through DOM. Because SVG is XML, it lends itself to transformation and/or generation with any of the tools and libraries you might use for XML generally.
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15 Apr 2005 |
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XHTML 1.0: Marking up a new dawn
Still writing your documents in HTML? If you are, you're not complying with current standards. On January 26, 2000, XHTML 1.0 became a recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). HTML, according to the W3C, is no longer the Web markup standard. Instead, XHTML 1.0 has replaced our old favorite, marking up the dawn of a new and exciting time in communications technology.
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09 Feb 2005 |
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An early look at sXBL
SVG's XML Binding Language -- sXBL -- is an XML vocabulary being developed at the W3C as a means of mapping XML elements in arbitrary vocabularies to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) pictures that represent those elements. For example, an XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) document can be turned into SVG code that shows the actual Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram encoded in the XMI document. But sXBL takes the separation of presentation from content one step further: It is a generic language for rendering documents as arbitrarily complex two-dimensional pictures. This article offers an overview of this emerging and potentially powerful technology.
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25 Jan 2005 |
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Introduction to XML Events
A number of markup technologies involve attaching behaviors to specific parts of a document. XML Events is a W3C Recommendation that allows declarative attachment of a behavior -- which can be a predefined bundle of actions defined in XML or a more general call to a scripting language -- to a specific element. This article gives an overview of how XML Events came about, what it's useful for, and how it works.
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16 Nov 2004 |
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Render dynamic graphs in SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based language for drawing two-dimensional graphics. The ability to render graphics on the fly lends itself naturally to using it for representing data such as graphs. But suppose the data being represented varies in its magnitude. You may want to graph values between 0 and 10 today, and between 0 and 100,000 tomorrow. Plotting these values on the same scales would be useless -- ideally, you want the ability to scale SVG graphs depending on their content. Author Brian Venn shows you how.
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29 Oct 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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A survey of XML standards: Part 4
The world of XML is vast and growing, with a huge variety of standards and technologies that interact in complex ways. It can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML, and for users to keep track of new entries and changes in the space. XML is a basic syntax upon which you develop local and global vocabularies. Uche Ogbuji has presented the most important standards relating to XML in three in-depth articles. In this fourth article, he provides a detailed cross-reference of all the covered standards.
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02 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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A survey of XML standards: Part 3
The world of XML is vast and growing, with a huge variety of standards and technologies that interact in complex ways. It can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML, and for users to keep track of new entries and changes in the space. XML is a basic syntax upon which you develop local and global vocabularies. The key to its success is that several very important data formats are defined as XML vocabularies. In this article, Uche Ogbuji presents the most important of these.
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17 Feb 2004 |
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SVG and XForms: Rendering Custom Content
The first Scalable Vector Graphics specification (SVG 1.0) laid the standard for XML-expressed two-dimensional interactive and animated graphics. Since then, the W3C SVG Working Group has focused on enhancing features that ease the use of SVG for Web and desktop application development. A promising SVG 1.2 feature is Rendering Custom Content (RCC) -- it offers a clean XML-centric extension mechanism to mix and match different XML namespaces within an SVG document. This article takes you through the creation of a simple push-button widget while introducing the RCC mechanism.
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25 Nov 2003 |
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SVG and XForms: A primer
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and XForms are two blossoming technologies that handle what may appear to be two different facets of electronic document publishing. This primer provides an overview of the two technologies and highlights the potential synergies between them.
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18 Nov 2003 |
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Tip: Create JPEGs automatically with SVG
In this tip, Benoit Marchal discusses a pragmatic approach to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Until the SVG viewer becomes as ubiquitous as the Macromedia Flash player, it will be difficult to incorporate SVG images directly into a Web site. In the meantime, Web developers benefit from generating JPEGs and other bitmaps through SVG. SVG is especially helpful because it is pure XML.
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30 Sep 2003 |
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Add interactivity to your SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based language for drawing two-dimensional graphics. However, its capabilities are not restricted to simple static vector shapes. This article shows how you can add interactive elements to your SVG documents that respond to user input.
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27 Aug 2003 |
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Make the most of Xerces-C++, Part 2
This two-part article offers an introduction to the Xerces-C++ XML library. Here in Part 2, Rick Parrish demonstrates how to load, manipulate, or synthesize a Document Object Model (DOM) document, and how to recreate the bar graph in Part 1 using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). C++ programmers who read these articles should be able to easily add XML parsing and processing capabilities to their applications.
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15 Aug 2003 |
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Make the most of Xerces-C++, Part 1
This two-part article offers an introduction to the Xerces-C++ XML library. Part 1 explains how to link the library into applications written in Linux and Windows. Ample code demonstrates parsing with the SAX API, and a sample application shows you how to create a bar graph in ASCII art. In Part 2, I'll demonstrate how to load, manipulate, or synthesize a DOM document, and you'll see how to create the same bar graph using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). C++ programmers who read these articles should be able to easily add XML parsing and processing capabilities to their applications.
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13 Aug 2003 |
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Interactive, dynamic Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML application language which describes 2D vector graphics. SVG includes animation and scripting functionality. Scripting of SVG images provides powerful and flexible interactivity to add value to images on SVG-enabled Web sites. In addition, SVG images can be created dynamically from XML data, for example from an XML-enabled relational database management system, using XSLT and other technologies. This tutorial demonstrates the use of JavaScript to enable users to dynamically control the content and appearance of a floor plan rendered using SVG.
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27 Jun 2003 |
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Tip: Bring Scalable Vector Graphics to life with built-in animation elements
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based language for drawing two-dimensional graphics. Sound dull? Far from it. SVG has many exciting features available to it such as transformations, alpha masks, filter effects, and animation. This tip provides working examples to show you how to apply the five flavours of SVG animations to your SVG documents.
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18 Jun 2003 |
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