XML Hacks
XML Hacks 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools By Michael Fitzgerald
July 2004
Pages: 480

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Hacks | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Looking at XML Documents

    1. Hacks #1-10

    2. Read an XML Document

    3. Display an XML Document in a Web Browser

    4. Apply Style to an XML Document with CSS

    5. Use Character and Entity References

    6. Examine XML Documents in Text Editors

    7. Explore XML Documents in Graphical Editors

    8. Choose Tools for Creating an XML Vocabulary

    9. Test XML Documents Online

    10. Test XML Documents from the Command Line

    11. Run Java Programs that Process XML

  2. Chapter 2 Creating XML Documents

    1. Hacks #11-30

    2. Edit XML Documents with <oXygen/>

    3. Edit XML Documents with Emacs and nXML

    4. Edit XML with Vim

    5. Edit XML Documents with Microsoft Word 2003

    6. Work with XML in Microsoft Excel 2003

    7. Work with XML in Microsoft Access 2003

    8. Convert Microsoft Office Files, Old or New, to XML

    9. Create an XML Document from a Text File with xmlspy

    10. Convert Text to XML with Uphill

    11. Create Well-Formed XML with Minimal Manual Tagging Using an SGML Parser

    12. Create an XML Document from a CSV File

    13. Convert an HTML Document to XHTML with HTML Tidy

    14. Transform Documents with XQuery

    15. Execute an XQuery with Saxon

    16. Include Text and Documents with Entities

    17. Include External Documents with XInclude

    18. Encode XML Documents

    19. Explore XLink and XML

    20. What's the Diff? Diff XML Documents

    21. Look at XML Documents Through the Lens of the XML Information Set

  3. Chapter 3 Transforming XML Documents

    1. Hacks #31-58

    2. Understand the Anatomy of an XSLT Stylesheet

    3. Transform an XML Document with a Command-Line Processor

    4. Transform an XML Document Within a Graphical Editor

    5. Analyze Nodes with TreeViewer

    6. Explore a Document Tree with the xmllint Shell

    7. View Documents as Tables Using Generic CSS or XSLT

    8. Generate an XSLT Identity Stylesheet with Relaxer

    9. Pretty-Print XML Using a Generic Identity Stylesheet and Xalan

    10. Create a Text File from an XML Document

    11. Convert Attributes to Elements and Elements to Attributes

    12. Convert XML to CSV

    13. Create and Process SpreadsheetML

    14. Choose Your Output Format in XSLT

    15. Transform Your iTunes Library File

    16. Generate Multiple Output Documents with XSLT 2.0

    17. Generate XML from MySQL

    18. Generate PDF Documents from XML and CSS

    19. Process XML Documents with XSL-FO and FOP

    20. Process HTML with XSLT Using TagSoup

    21. Build Results with Literal Result and Instruction Elements

    22. Write Push and Pull Stylesheets

    23. Perform Math with XSLT

    24. Transform XML Documents with grep and sed

    25. Generate SVG with XSLT

    26. Dither Scatterplots with XSLT and SVG

    27. Use Lookup Tables with XSLT to Translate FIPS Codes

    28. Grouping in XSLT 1.0 and 2.0

    29. Use EXSLT Extensions

  4. Chapter 4 XML Vocabularies

    1. Hacks #59-67

    2. Use XML Namespaces in an XML Vocabulary

    3. Create an RDDL Document

    4. Create and Validate an XHTML 1.0 Document

    5. Create Books, Technical Manuals, and Papers in XML with DocBook

    6. Create a SOAP 1.2 Document

    7. Identify Yourself with FOAF

    8. Unravel the OpenOffice File Format

    9. Render Graphics with SVG

    10. Use XForms in Your XML Documents

  5. Chapter 5 Defining XML Vocabularies with Schema Languages

    1. Hacks #68-79

    2. Validate an XML Document with a DTD

    3. Validate an XML Document with XML Schema

    4. Validate Multiple Documents Against an XML Schema at Once

    5. Check the Integrity of a W3C Schema

    6. Validate an XML Document with RELAX NG

    7. Create a DTD from an Instance

    8. Create an XML Schema Document from an Instance or DTD

    9. Create a RELAX NG Schema from an Instance

    10. Convert a RELAX NG Schema to XML Schema

    11. Use RELAX NG and Schematron Together to Validate Business Rules

    12. Use RELAX NG to Generate DTD Customizations

    13. Generate Instances Based on Schemas

  6. Chapter 6 RSS and Atom

    1. Hacks #80-90

    2. Subscribe to RSS Feeds

    3. Create an RSS 0.91 Document

    4. Create an RSS 1.0 Document

    5. Create an RSS 2.0 Document

    6. Create an Atom Document

    7. Validate RSS and Atom Documents

    8. Create RSS with XML::RSS

    9. Syndicate Content with Movable Type

    10. Post RSS Headlines on Your Site

    11. Create RSS 0.91 Feeds from Google

    12. Syndicate a List of Books from Amazon with RSS and ASP

  7. Chapter 7 Advanced XML Hacks

    1. Hacks #91-100

    2. Pipeline XML with Ant

    3. Use Elements Instead of Entities to Avoid the "amp Explosion Problem"

    4. Use Cocoon to Create a Well-Formed View of a Web Page, Then Scrape It for Data

    5. From Wiki to XML, Through SGML

    6. Create Well-Formed XML with JavaScript

    7. Inspect and Edit XML Documents with the Document Object Model

    8. Processing XML with SAX

    9. Process XML with C#

    10. Generate Code from XML

    11. Create Well-Formed XML with Genx

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