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XML. Vadim Parizher CS 496-EBT Fall 2003. Learning Objectives. Learn what XML is Learn the various ways in which XML is used Learn the key companion technologies. Agenda. Overview Syntax and Structure The XML Alphabet Soup. Overview What is XML?. A tag-based meta language

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  1. XML Vadim ParizherCS 496-EBT Fall 2003

  2. Learning Objectives • Learn what XML is • Learn the various ways in which XML is used • Learn the key companion technologies

  3. Agenda • Overview • Syntax and Structure • The XML Alphabet Soup

  4. OverviewWhat is XML? • A tag-based meta language • Designed for structured data representation • Represents data hierarchically (in a tree) • Provides context to data (makes it meaningful) • Self-describing data • Separates presentation (HTML) from data (XML) • An open W3C standard • A subset of SGML • vs. HTML, which is an implementation of SGML

  5. Application X Database Repository Configuration Documents OverviewWhat is XML? • XML is a “use everywhere” data specification XML XML XML XML

  6. OverviewDocuments vs. Data • XML is used to represent two main types of things: • Documents • Lots of text with tags to identify and annotate portions of the document • Data • Hierarchical data structures

  7. OverviewXML and Structured Data • Pre-XML representation of data: • XML representation of the same data: “PO-1234”,”CUST001”,”X9876”,”5”,”14.98” <PURCHASE_ORDER> <PO_NUM> PO-1234 </PO_NUM> <CUST_ID> CUST001 </CUST_ID> <ITEM_NUM> X9876 </ITEM_NUM> <QUANTITY> 5 </QUANTITY> <PRICE> 14.98 </PRICE> </PURCHASE_ORDER>

  8. OverviewBenefits of XML • Open W3C standard • Representation of data across heterogeneous environments • Cross platform • Allows for high degree of interoperability • Strict rules • Syntax • Structure • Case sensitive

  9. OverviewWho Uses XML? • Submissions by • Microsoft • IBM • Hewlett-Packard • Fujitsu Laboratories • Sun Microsystems • Netscape (AOL), and others… • Technologies using XML • SOAP, ebXML, BizTalk, WebSphere, many others…

  10. Agenda • Overview • Syntax and Structure • The XML Alphabet Soup

  11. Syntax and StructureComponents of an XML Document • Elements • Each element has a beginning and ending tag • <TAG_NAME>...</TAG_NAME> • Elements can be empty (<TAG_NAME />) • Attributes • Describes an element; e.g. data type, data range, etc. • Can only appear on beginning tag • Processing instructions • Encoding specification (Unicode by default) • Namespace declaration • Schema declaration

  12. <?xml version=“1.0” ?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=“template.xsl"?> <ROOT> <ELEMENT1><SUBELEMENT1 /><SUBELEMENT2 /></ELEMENT1> <ELEMENT2> </ELEMENT2> <ELEMENT3 type=‘string’> </ELEMENT3> <ELEMENT4 type=‘integer’ value=‘9.3’> </ELEMENT4> </ROOT> Syntax and StructureComponents of an XML Document Elements with Attributes Elements Prologue (processing instructions)

  13. Syntax and StructureRules For Well-Formed XML • There must be one, and only one, root element • Sub-elements must be properly nested • A tag must end within the tag in which it was started • Attributes are optional • Defined by an optional schema • Attribute values must be enclosed in “” or ‘’ • Processing instructions are optional • XML is case-sensitive • <tag> and <TAG> are not the same type of element

  14. Syntax and StructureWell-Formed XML? • No, CHILD2 and CHILD3 do not nest propertly <xml? Version=“1.0” ?> <PARENT> <CHILD1>This is element 1</CHILD1> <CHILD2><CHILD3>Number 3</CHILD2></CHILD3> </PARENT>

  15. Syntax and StructureWell-Formed XML? • No, there are two root elements <xml? Version=“1.0” ?> <PARENT> <CHILD1>This is element 1</CHILD1> </PARENT> <PARENT> <CHILD1>This is another element 1</CHILD1> </PARENT>

  16. Syntax and StructureWell-Formed XML? • Yes <xml? Version=“1.0” ?> <PARENT> <CHILD1>This is element 1</CHILD1> <CHILD2/> <CHILD3></CHILD3> </PARENT>

  17. Syntax and StructureAn XML Document <?xml version='1.0'?> <bookstore> <book genre=‘autobiography’ publicationdate=‘1981’ ISBN=‘1-861003-11-0’> <title>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title> <author> <first-name>Benjamin</first-name> <last-name>Franklin</last-name> </author> <price>8.99</price> </book> <book genre=‘novel’ publicationdate=‘1967’ ISBN=‘0-201-63361-2’> <title>The Confidence Man</title> <author> <first-name>Herman</first-name> <last-name>Melville</last-name> </author> <price>11.99</price> </book> </bookstore>

  18. Syntax and Structure Namespaces: Overview • Part of XML’s extensibility • Allow authors to differentiate between tags of the same name (using a prefix) • Frees author to focus on the data and decide how to best describe it • Allows multiple XML documents from multiple authors to be merged • Identified by a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) • When a URL is used, it does NOT have to represent a live server

  19. Syntax and Structure Namespaces: Declaration Namespace declaration examples: xmlns: bk = “http://www.example.com/bookinfo/” xmlns: bk = “urn:mybookstuff.org:bookinfo” xmlns: bk = “http://www.example.com/bookinfo/” Namespace declaration Prefix URI (URL)

  20. Syntax and Structure Namespaces: Examples <BOOK xmlns:bk=“http://www.bookstuff.org/bookinfo”> <bk:TITLE>All About XML</bk:TITLE> <bk:AUTHOR>Joe Developer</bk:AUTHOR> <bk:PRICE currency=‘US Dollar’>19.99</bk:PRICE> <bk:BOOK xmlns:bk=“http://www.bookstuff.org/bookinfo” xmlns:money=“urn:finance:money”> <bk:TITLE>All About XML</bk:TITLE> <bk:AUTHOR>Joe Developer</bk:AUTHOR> <bk:PRICE money:currency=‘US Dollar’> 19.99</bk:PRICE>

  21. Syntax and Structure Namespaces: Default Namespace • An XML namespace declared without a prefix becomes the default namespace for all sub-elements • All elements without a prefix will belong to the default namespace: <BOOK xmlns=“http://www.bookstuff.org/bookinfo”> <TITLE>All About XML</TITLE> <AUTHOR>Joe Developer</AUTHOR>

  22. Syntax and Structure Namespaces: Scope • Unqualified elements belong to the inner-most default namespace. • BOOK, TITLE, and AUTHOR belong to the default book namespace • PUBLISHER and NAME belong to the default publisher namespace <BOOK xmlns=“www.bookstuff.org/bookinfo”> <TITLE>All About XML</TITLE> <AUTHOR>Joe Developer</AUTHOR> <PUBLISHER xmlns=“urn:publishers:publinfo”> <NAME>Microsoft Press</NAME> </PUBLISHER> </BOOK>

  23. Syntax and Structure Namespaces: Attributes • Unqualified attributes do NOT belong to any namespace • Even if there is a default namespace • This differs from elements, which belong to the default namespace

  24. Syntax and Structure Entities • Entities provide a mechanism for textual substitution, e.g. • You can define your own entities • Parsed entities can contain text and markup • Unparsed entities can contain any data • JPEG photos, GIF files, movies, etc.

  25. Agenda • Overview • Syntax and Structure • The XML Alphabet Soup

  26. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ • XML itself is fairly simple • Most of the learning curve is knowing about all of the related technologies

  27. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’

  28. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’

  29. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Schemas: Overview • DTD (Document Type Definitions) • Not written in XML • No support for data types or namespaces • XSD (XML Schema Definition) • Written in XML • Supports data types • Current standard recommended by W3C

  30. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Schemas: Purpose • Define the “rules” (grammar) of the document • Data types • Value bounds • A XML document that conforms to a schema is said to be valid • More restrictive than well-formed XML • Define which elements are present and in what order • Define the structural relationships of elements

  31. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Schemas: DTD Example • XML document: • DTD schema: <BOOK> <TITLE>All About XML</TITLE> <AUTHOR>Joe Developer</AUTHOR> </BOOK> <!DOCTYPE BOOK [ <!ELEMENT BOOK (TITLE+, AUTHOR) > <!ELEMENT TITLE (#PCDATA) > <!ELEMENT AUTHOR (#PCDATA) > ]>

  32. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’Schemas: XSD Example • XML document: <CATALOG> <BOOK> <TITLE>All About XML</TITLE> <AUTHOR>Joe Developer</AUTHOR> </BOOK> … </CATALOG>

  33. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’Schemas: XSD Example <xsd:schema id="NewDataSet“ targetNamespace="http://tempuri.org/schema1.xsd" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/schema1.xsd" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata"> <xsd:element name="book"> <xsd:complexType content="elementOnly"> <xsd:all> <xsd:element name="title" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string"/> <xsd:element name="author" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string"/> </xsd:all> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> <xsd:element name=“Catalog" msdata:IsDataSet="True"> <xsd:complexType> <xsd:choice maxOccurs="unbounded"> <xsd:element ref="book"/> </xsd:choice> </xsd:complexType> </xsd:element> </xsd:schema>

  34. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Schemas: Why You Should Use XSD • Newest W3C Standard • Broad support for data types • Reusable “components” • Simple data types • Complex data types • Extensible • Inheritance support • Namespace support • Ability to map to relational database tables • XSD support in Visual Studio.NET

  35. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Transformations: XSL • Language for expressing document styles • Specifies the presentation of XML • More powerful than CSS • Consists of: • XSLT • XPath • XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)

  36. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Transformations: Overview • XSLT – a language used to transform XML data into a different form (commonly XML or HTML) XML XML,HTML,… XSLT

  37. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Transformations: XSLT • The language used for converting XML documents into other forms • Describes how the document is transformed • Expressed as an XML document (.xsl) • Template rules • Patterns match nodes in source document • Templates instantiated to form part of result document • Uses XPath for querying, sorting, etc.

  38. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Transformations: Example <sales> <summary> <heading>Scootney Publishing</heading> <subhead>Regional Sales Report</subhead> <description>Sales Report</description> </summary> <data> <region> <name>West Coast</name> <quarter number="1" books_sold="24000" /> <quarter number="2" books_sold="38600" /> <quarter number="3" books_sold="44030" /> <quarter number="4" books_sold="21000" /> </region> ... </data> </sales>

  39. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Transformations: Example <xsl:param name="low_sales" select="21000"/> <BODY> <h1><xsl:value-of select="//summary/heading"/></h1> ... <table><tr><th>Region\Quarter</th> <xsl:for-each select="//data/region[1]/quarter"> <th>Q<xsl:value-of select="@number"/></th> </xsl:for-each> ... <xsl:for-each select="//data/region"> <tr><xsl:value-of select="name"/></th> <xsl:for-each select="quarter"> <td><xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="number(@books_sold &lt;= $low_sales)"> color:red;</xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise>color:green;</xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose> <xsl:value-of select="format-number(@books_sold,'###,###')"/></td> ... <td><xsl:value-of select="format-number(sum(quarter/@books_sold),'###,###')"/>

  40. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Transformations: Example

  41. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) • A set of formatting semantics • Denotes typographic elements (for example: page, paragraph, rule, etc.) • Allows finer control obtained via formatting elements • Word, letter spacing • Indentation • Widow, orphan, hyphenation control • Font style, etc.

  42. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ XPath (XML Path Language) • General purpose query language for identifying nodes in an XML document • Declarative (vs. procedural) • Contextual – the results depend on current node • Supports standard comparison, Boolean and mathematical operators (=, <, and, or, *, +, etc.)

  43. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’XPath Operators

  44. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’XPath Query Examples ./author (finds all author elements within current context) /bookstore (find the bookstore element at the root) /* (find the root element) //author (find all author elements anywhere in document) /bookstore[@specialty = “textbooks”] (find all bookstores where the specialty attribute = “textbooks”) /book[@style = /bookstore/@specialty] (find all books where the style attribute = the specialty attribute of the bookstore element at the root)

  45. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ XPointer • Builds upon XPath to: • Identify sub-node data • Identify a range of data • Identify data in local document or remote documents • New standard

  46. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ XLink • XML Linking Language • Elements of XML documents • Describes links between resources • Simple links (for example, HTML HREFs) • Extended links • Remote resources • Local resources • Rules for how a link is followed, etc.

  47. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ The XML DOM • XML Document Object Model (DOM) • Provides a programming interface for manipulating XML documents in memory • Includes a set of objects and interfaces that represent the content and structure of an XML document • Enables a program to traverse an XML tree • Allows elements, attributes, etc., to be added/deleted in an XML tree • Allows new XML documents to be created programmatically

  48. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ SAX (Simple API for XML) • API to allow developers to read/write XML data • Event based • Uses a “push” model • Sequential access only (data not cached) • Requires less memory to process XML data than the DOM • SAX has less overhead (uses small input, work and output buffers) than the DOM • DOM constructs the data structure in memory (work and output buffers = to size of data)

  49. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Data Islands • XML embedded in an HTML document • Manipulated via client side script or data binding <XML id=“XMLID”> <BOOK> <TITLE>All About XML</TITLE> <AUTHOR>Joe Developer</AUTHOR> </BOOK> </XML> <XML id=“XMLID” src=“mydocument.xml”>

  50. The XML ‘Alphabet Soup’ Data Islands • Can be embedded in an HTML SCRIPT element • XML is accessible via the DOM: <SCRIPT language=“xml” id=“XMLID”> <SCRIPT type=“text/xml” id=“XMLID”> <SCRIPT language=“xml” id=“XMLID” src=“mydocument.xml”>

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