XPath Essentials
- 6h 59m
- Andrew Watt
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2002
Web masters at large corporations need to import XML data from their companies' data warehouses and display it with HTML on Web sites. XPath allows that data to be restructured. IT programmers need to build and/or maintain business-to-business (B2B) applications for their companies to interact with a wide variety of clients and partners. While the clients and partners may all have the necessary data in XML format, they may not all be using the same naming conventions for the data. XPath exchanges the XML data without any of the companies having to change their systems.
XPath Essentials offers Web masters and IT programmers a thorough source for XPath coverage. Offering many pertinent examples of how XPath technology operates, this book shows how XPath allows XML data to be restructured so that it can be transformed, displayed, and exchanged among companies that may not be using the same DTDs or schemas.
Written by an internationally recognized XML expert with extensive writing and technical editing experience, XPath Essentials focuses exclusively on XPath. It delivers everything you need to know about this extraordinary program, including:
- Extensive examples and source code to illustrate the practical application of XPath and its framework, syntax, semantics, and use
- In-depth coverage that developers need to accomplish mission-critical tasks
- A casual, accessible tone and style geared toward professional developers who aren’t necessarily XML experts
- Appendices of resources and an XPath glossary
About the Author
Andrew Watt is the founder of XMML.com and an independent consultant in the United Kingdom. His extensive programming background includes expertise in XML and HTML/XHTML. He has served as technical editor on ten books covering XML and other Web technologies and is a contributing author to several XML and XHTML titles.
In this Book
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XPath Essentials
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Introduction
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Starting with XML and XSLT
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XPath Fundamentals
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XPath Data Model
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The Four XPath Syntaxes
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XPath Functions
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Using XPath and XSLT to Produce XML
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Using XPath and XSLT to Produce HTML
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Using XPath and XSLT to Produce SVG
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Using XPath in XPointer
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XForms and XPath
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XPath in Canonical XML and XML Signatures
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Selecting Elements and Attributes
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Working with XPath Functions
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XPath 2.0 and XQuery
