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What can XML do for you? How is XML used in this site? http:// www.anderson.ucla.edu/events.xml How could XML be used in the site below? http:// www.archbase.com/fayum /

Overview of what we will do FTP: get a text file of a bibliography off the server (bib.txt) Turn it into HTML and upload to server (bib.html) XML: take the text file and mark it up as xml (bib.xml): check if it is well-formed Create a DTD for bib.xml: validate bib.xml XHTML: using bib.html, mark it up as xhtml and validate against external DTD. XSL: using bib.xml, attach a style sheet that formats xml as html.

Overview Bib.txt Bib.html Bib.xml Bib.dtd Bib.xsl 1 2 3 5 4 6 Xhtml.dtd Bib_xhtml.html

Step 1. Download txt file Open WS_FTP (File Transfer Protocol) hostname: dev.cdh.ucla.edu Username: newmedia Password: newmedia0506 Navigate to “firstclass” Download bib.txt What is actually happening?

FTP: file transfer protocol http://dev.cdh.ucla.edu/~newmedia/ Bib.txt

FTP F ile T ransfer P rotocol, FTP is most commonly used to download a file from a server using the Internet or to upload a file to a server (e.g., uploading a Web page file to a server).

Two modes of FTP ASCII .txt files ASCII transfer mode translates the end-of-line characters during transfer so that the file can be read on the destination system. Binary: Anything but .txt files graphics files, and sound files—no translation Usually your ftp software detects the file type automatically

Step 2: HTML Formats the data for the web Open bib.txt in Notepad and mark up the text in html <html>, <ul>, <li> Save as yourname_ bib.html

zoe_bib.html <html> <ul> <li>Castro, Elizabeth. Xml for the World Wide Web. Visual Quickstart Guide. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2001. <li>Oliver, Dick. Sams Teach Yourself Html and Xhtml in 24 Hours. 5th ed. Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams, 2001. <li>Watt, Andrew H. Sams Teach Yourself Xml in 10 Minutes. Indianapolis, IN: Sams Pub., 2003. </ul> </html>

View the HTML file Open yourname _bib.html in IE Use FTP to transfer the file to dev server Now, view the html file again: http:// dev.cdh.ucla.edu/~newmedia/firstclass/ yourname _bib.html Now anyone with this URL can find your file

why XML? Extensible Markup Language extensible - can be modified by changing or adding features Builds toward a semantic web, we can create “meaningful tags” e.g. <author>, <book> relationships between pieces of information Client hardware and web browsers are becoming more sophisticated Makes documents transportable across systems and applications.

Html vs XML <body> <h1>Workplan</h1> <p>This project begins April 16, 2006 and ends June 18, 2006.</p> <p>Costs of this proposal are expected to be $150-$200,000</p> </body> <proposal> <scope><head>Workplan</head> <schedule>This project begins <startdate>April 16, 2006</startdate> and ends on <enddate>June 18, 2006</enddate>.</schedule> <fees>Costs of this proposal are expected to be <range>$150-$200,000</range></fees> </scope> </proposal>

Step 3: Create an XML document Open the bib.txt file in Notepad Use the following tags: <book>, <author>, <title>,<place> <publisher>, <year> Close each tag <book></book> Nest the tags--like boxes that open and close within boxes

<book> <author>Castro, Elizabeth.</author> <title> Xml for the World Wide Web. Visual Quickstart Guide.</title> <place> Berkeley, CA:</place> <publisher>Peachpit Press</publisher> <year>2001.</year> </book>

Elements & Tags An element is used to describe a piece of information Opening tag <book> Closing tag </book>

5 Rules of XML = well-formed Tag names are case sensitive Every opening tag must have a corresponding closing tag (unless it is abbreviated as an empty tag) A nested tag pair cannot overlap another tag Attribute values must appear within quotes Every document must have a root element Ex. bib

Building Blocks of XML Elements - containers of info Tags Attributes - labels on the containers Entities: declared in the dtd PCDATA CDATA

Our document Root element <bib> (starts and ends the document) NB: xml is case sensitive, so <bib> is different from <Bib> (stick to lower-case)

Attributes Tie small pieces of information to an element Several attributes can be used describe an element Example: <?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>

zoe_bib.xml Add the prologue: <?xml version="1.0" encoding=“utf-8" ?> Save your file as yourname_ bib.xml Open in IE—it will show you any errors Is your document well-formed ?

zoe_bib.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <bib> <book> <author>Castro, Elizabeth.</author> <title> Xml for the World Wide Web. Visual Quickstart Guide.</title> <place> Berkeley, CA:</place> <publisher>Peachpit Press</publisher> <year>2001.</year> </book> <book> <author>Watt, Andrew H.</author> <title> Sams Teach Yourself Xml in 10 Minutes.</title> <place>Indianapolis, IN:</place> <publisher> Sams .,</publisher> <year> 2003.</year> </book> </bib>

Step 4: Making a DTD Document Type Definition defines the legal building blocks of an XML document. A DTD can be declared inline in your XML document, or as an external reference

Why use a DTD? independent groups of people can agree to use a common DTD for interchanging data. use a standard DTD to verify that the data you receive from the outside world is valid. Some are already defined: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) http://www.tei-c.org/Applications / validate you document: make sure it conforms to the dtd

DTD <!DOCTYPE bib [ <!ELEMENT bib (book+)> <!ELEMENT book (author, title, place?, publisher?, year?)> <!ELEMENT author (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT place (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT publisher (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT year (#PCDATA)> ]> !DOCTYPE bib defines that this is a document of the type bib . !ELEMENT bib defines the bib element as having at least one book element + means at least one !ELEMENT book defines its sub elements as a sequence. ? indicates optional elements !ELEMENT author defines the author element to be of the type "#PCDATA" #PCDATA indicates that the characters will be parsed.

DTD: hierarchical book author title place publisher year parent children

PCDATA vs CDATA PCDATA text that will be parsed by a parser . Tags inside the text will be treated as markup and entities will be expanded . CDATA text that will NOT be parsed by a parser . Tags inside the text will NOT be treated as markup and entities will not be expanded.

Internal and External DTD Cut the dtd code and paste it into yourname_ bib.xml file Save as yourname_ bib_dtd.xml Open in IE –view source How do we know this xml is valid? Copy and paste here: http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_validate.asp Check whether Dreamweaver has validation

DTD <!DOCTYPE bib [ <!ELEMENT bib (book+)> <!ELEMENT book (author, title, place?, publisher?, year?)> <!ELEMENT author (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT place (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT publisher (#PCDATA)> <!ELEMENT year (#PCDATA)> ]>

Step 5: XHTML http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ A reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0 Documents written in XHMTL can be validated against the xhtml DTD Strict Transitional Frameset

XHTML uses external dtd Allows you to validate html <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Enter the title of your XHTML document here</title> </head> <body> <p>Enter the body text of your XHTML document here</p> </body> </html>

XHTML Cut and paste this code into yourname _bib.html Create well-formed html <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Enter the title of your XHTML document here</title> </head> <body> <p>Enter the body text of your XHTML document here</p> </body> </html>

5 Rules of XML = well-formed Tag names are case sensitive Every opening tag must have a corresponding closing tag (unless it is abbreviated as an empty tag) A nested tag pair cannot overlap another tag Attribute values must appear within quotes Every document must have a root element

Screenshot of html and xhtml side by side

Validating XHMTL http://validator.w3.org/ Cut and paste contents of xhtml into this site Save as yourname _bib_xhtml.html You can now upload yourname _bib_xhtml.html to dev server

Step 6: XSL Extensible Stylesheet Language XSLT = XSL Transformation XSLT transforms XML to HTML XSL is XML (a dtd is not)

Create an XSL file <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <h2>Zoe's XML Bibliography</h2> <table border="1"> <tr bgcolor="#9acd32"> <th align="left">Author</th> <th align="left">Title</th> <th align="left">Year</th> </tr> <xsl:for-each select="bib/book"> <tr> <td><xsl:value-of select="author"/></td> <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td> <td><xsl:value-of select="year"/></td> </tr> </xsl:for-each> </table> </body> </html> </xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet> Copy and paste this to a file called yourname _bib.xsl

How to link XSL to XML Open yourname_ bib_dtd.xml Insert link to xsl style sheet Eg. Save the file as yourname_ bib_xsl.xml Validate the file:

XSL Can be combined with CSS Allows you to use logic when displaying xml as an html document Filter out content Sort Select

Why bother? XML allows you to store your data in a non-proprietary format If you think that you could be using a database, start with xml—it’s more flexible as you are defining what you want That data can be updated, referenced, imported, displayed in many different formats Many applications (especially databases) now allow you to import and export data as xml New technologies, e.g. RSS feeds, webservices, etc., all use XML

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