The Bleeding Edge of XML

• Outline
• Please turn off all
• Part I: XML Infoset
• A normal XML document
• A canonical XML document
• An org.w3c.dom.Document object formed by reading hotcop.xml
• Are these three the same thing or not?
• What is the XML Infoset?
• The Infoset defines 11 kinds of Information Items
• The Document Information Item
• Elements
• Element Information Items
• Attributes
• Comments
• A Processing Instruction Information Item Includes:
• Characters
• Namespaces
• Document Type Declaration
• Document Type Definition
• Entities
• Entity Information Items
• Unparsed Entity Information Items
• Unexpanded Entity Information Items
• The Infoset Omits:
• Questions?
• Canonical XML
• How are documents canonicalized?
• Canonicalization software
• Questions?
• Digital Signatures
• Not Just for Signing XML
• Signature Process
• XML Digital Signature software
• A Detached Signature for hotcop.xml
• To Learn More
• Questions?
• Part II: XSLT 2.0 and Beyond
• XPath 2.0
• XPath 2.0 Goals
• XPath 2.0 Requirements
• XSLT 2.0
• XSLT 2.0 Goals
• XSLT 2.0 Non-goals
• XSLT 2.0 Requirements
• Some specific improvements that are likely
• Identifying 2.0 compliant stylesheets
• No result tree fragments
• Multiple Output Documents
• xsl:document Example
• xsl:script Top-level Element
• xsl:script with Java
• xsl:script with JavaScript
• Questions?
• XQuery
• XQuery Language
• Documents to Query
• Physical Representations to Query
• Where is XQuery used?
• The XML Model vs. the Relational Model
• Query Data Types
• An example document to query
• The XQuery FLWR
• Query: List titles of all books
• Query Result: Book Titles
• XQueryX
• Element Constructors
• Query Result: Book Titles
• Query with WHERE
• Query Result: Titles of books published by Addison-Wesley
• Query with Booleans
• Query Result: books published by Addison-Wesley after 1993
• Attribute Constructors
• Query Result: books published by Addison-Wesley after 1993, including their year and title.
• Query with multiple variables
• Query Result: A list of all the title-author pairs
• Nested Queries
• Query Result: A list of the title and authors of each book in the bibliography
• Query with distinct
• Query Result
• Query with sorting
• Query Result
• Queries with functions
• Query Result
• Tentative Function List
• A different document about books
• This document uses a different DTD
• Query that joins two documents
• Result
• prices.xml Query Sample Data
• Query with reused variables
• Query Result
• Multiple FLWR Queries
• Query Result
• Query Software
• To Learn More
• Questions?
• Part III: SAX 2.1
• Goals
• Specified vs. Defaulted Attributes
• standalone declaration
• The version and encoding properties
• Feature/Property discovery
• DefaultHandler infoset extensions
• Parser identification
• A Verifier Class as in JDOM
• To Learn More
• Questions?
• Part III.V: XML Blueberry
• XML Blueberry
• White Space
• Native language markup
• Unicode still isn't finished
• How to identify Blueberry
• Harm Reduction proposals
• Part IV: DOM Level 3
• DOM Evolution
• New Features in DOM Level 3
• DOM Level 3 Core Changes
• DOMKey
• New methods in Node interface
• New methods in Entity
• New methods in Document
• New methods in Text
• Questions?
• Bootstrapping
• DOM3 Bootstrapping
• Questions?
• Load and Save
• The DOM Process
• Parsing documents with DOM2
• Parsing documents with DOM3
• Load and Save
• DOMImplementationLS
• DOMBuilder
• DOMInputSource
• DOMEntityResolver
• DOMWriter
• DOMBuilderFilter
• DOMCMBuilder
• DOMCMWriter
• DocumentLS
• ParserErrorEvent
• Questions?
• Grammar Access/Abstract Schemas
• Abstract Schema Interfaces
• Abstract Schema and AS-Editing Interfaces
• The ASModel Interface
• The ASExternalModel Interface
• The ASNode Interface
• The ASNodeList Interface
• The ASNamedNodeMap Interface
• The ASDataType Interface
• The ASPrimitiveDataType Interface
• The ASElementDeclaration Interface
• The ASChildren Interface
• The ASAttributeDeclaration Interface
• The EntityDeclaration Interface
• The ASNotationDeclaration Interface
• Validation and Other Interfaces:
• The Document Interface
• The DocumentAS Interface
• The DOMImplementationAS Interface
• Schema-guided Document-Editing Interfaces:
• The NodeAS Interface
• The ElementAS Interface
• The CharacterDataAS Interface
• The DocumentTypeAS Interface
• The AttributeAS Interface
• Questions?
• DOM Error Handler Interfaces
• The DOMErrorHandler Interface
• The DOMLocator Interface
• To Learn More
• Questions?
• Part V: JDOM
• Where we're going
• What is JDOM?
• About JDOM
• JDOM versions
• Five packages:
• The org.jdom package
• The org.jdom.input package
• The org.jdom.output package
• The org.jdom.adapters package
• The org.jdom.transform package
• Writing XML Documents with JDOM
• A JDOM program that writes this XML document
• Hello JDOM
• Actual Output
• Hello JDOM 2
• Hello DOM
• fibonacci.xml
• A JDOM program that writes Fibonacci numbers into an XML file
• Output
• Suppose you want to include a DTD
• ValidFibonacci
• validfibonacci.xml
• Using Namespaces
• Rules for Using Namespaces
• With Namespace Prefixes
• The Default, Unprefixed Namespace
• Rules for Using Default Namespace
• With Default Namespace
• Converting data to XML
• Sample Tab Delimited Data: Baseball Statistics
• A Program to convert tab delimited data to XML
• Baseball Stats in XML
• A Shortcut
• Questions?
• Converting data to XML while Processing it
• Batting Averages in XML
• Advantages of JDOM for Writing Documents
• Questions?
• Reading XML with JDOM
• JDOM Compatible Parsers for Java
• The Design of the DOM API
• The JDOM Process
• Parsing a Document with JDOM
• Parser Results
• Turning on Validation in JDOM
• JDOM Validator
• Validation Output
• Building with DOM instead of SAX
• DOMBuilder Example
• Weblogs: One Task, Three Implementations
• Goal: Return a list of all the URLs in this list as java.net.URL objects
• SAX Design
• User Interface Class
• ContentHandler Class
• Weblogs Output
• DOM Design
• Weblogs with DOM
• Weblogs Output
• JDOM Design
• Weblogs with JDOM
• Weblogs Output
• The org.jdom Package
• The Document Node
• The Document Class
• Document Example
• Output from XMLPrinter
• Element Nodes
• Element Class Implementation
• The Element Class
• Element Example: XCount
• XCount Output
• Handling Attributes in JDOM
• The Attribute Class
• IDTagger
• Before IDTagger
• After IDTagger
• Handling Entities in JDOM
• The EntityRef Class
• Handling Comments in JDOM
• The Comment Class
• Comment Example
• CommentReader Output
• ProcessingInstruction Nodes
• The ProcessingInstruction Class
• XLinkSpider that Respects the robots Processing Instruction
• Handling Namespaces
• The Namespace Class
• The Namespace Class
• DocType Nodes
• The DocType class
• Example of the DocType Class
• XHTMLValidator
• Using the XHTMLValidator
• The Verifier Class
• The Verifier Class
• JDOMException
• JDOMException Class
• The org.jdom.output Package
• Serialization
• XMLOutputter
• Using the XMLOutputter Class Directly
• Using the XMLOutputter Class Indirectly
• JDOM based TagStripper
• Output from a JDOM based TagStripper
• Talking to DOM Programs
• Talking to SAX Programs
• What JDOM doesn't do
• To Learn More
• Questions?
• Part VI: The Oracle Speaks, Predictions for the Future
• XSLT 2.0
• XQuery
• DOM Level 3 succeeds
• JDOM succeeds, much to the consternation of the W3C
• Stuff we didn't talk about
• XInclude succeeds once parsers support it
• Schemas, a partial success
• XLinks
• XPointers; the same story
• XSL-FO
• XHTML Fails
• Schema Repositories all fail
• MathML succeeds
• SVG Takes Off in 2002
• Browser Support
• Invent the Future!
• To Learn More
• Questions?

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