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Introduction to XML
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XML - Connectivity is Key Need for customized page layout – e.g. filter to
display only recent data Downloadable product comparisons – e.g.
import to spreadsheet features, prices, etc. Application integration – translation of data
from various application sources e.g. human resource, accounts, projects
Data integration – coherent DB views Interchangeable files – enhance software
development via number of tools, exchange information effortlessly
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Need for software to spontaneously connect across the globe, exchange information, process and record exchanges
Problems evident in Web pages – undifferentiated text makes
search ability problematic, need to for human intervention
HTML – page layout language, little scope for data analysis, need to slice and dice manually
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Metadata – first step Spontaneous information exchange
requires metadata One party indicates what each piece of
information means, two or more parties agree on meaning, facilitating organisation of data in database schema
Formal way to describe what a piece of data means
Difficulty – parties need to agree on meaning
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Shared Context Formal description of rules
metadata must follow Applies to particular type of
document, serves as contract between document sender and receiver
One party can design shared context, post on internet so available to anyone who wishes to use/add
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XML Approach Simple approach to metadata and shared
context Authors add metadata through tags
<author>William Shakespeare</author> Document designers add shared context
through Document Type Definitions (DTDs) – a set of declarations that specify allowable order, structure and attributes of tags for particular document
Structured via URL so any party can spontaneously access DTD, interpret its rules, and process the document
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Goals of XML –
1. It shall be straightforward to use XML over the Internet
2. XML shall support a wide variety of applications3. XML shall be compatible with SGML4. It shall be easy to write programs that process
XML documents5. The number of optional features in XML is to be
kept to an absolute minimum, ideally zero XML documents should be human-legible and
reasonably clear XML design should be prepared quickly The design of XML should be formal and concise XML documents shall be easy to create Terseness in XML markup is of minimal
importance
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XML Conceptual Model Human and machine readability Defining content Defining structure Separation of content from
relationships Separation of structure from
presentation
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XML software support (5)
Fundamental software components – low level XML capabilities such as parsing and generating documents
Software development tool support – tools for rapid application development, include utilities for manipulating XML documents and integrating with document development tools
Document development tools – define DTDs and author XML documents easier than text editors. Graphical modeling tools/browsers for directly manipulating XML documents, support existing web content development and management
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XML software support Web infrastructure support – to develop
adaption momentum, browsers and servers must support XML – anyone can view XML from standard browser
Translation components – convert all data formats to XML, similar to WPs supporting ‘save as rich text format’ feature
Inevitable barriers to deployment = need to overcome
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XML Specifications (2) Document portion – specifies how
to use tagged markup to indicate meaning of data
DTD portion – specifies how to indicate allowable structure for a class of XML document
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Simple example - content<business card>
<name><given_name>David</given_name><middle_name>John</middle_name><family_name>Brown</family_name>
</name><title>Software Technology Analyst</title><author/><contact-methods>
<phone>028 7137 5555</phone><phone>07741265894</phone>
</contact_methods></business card>
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Simple example – DTD
<!ELEMENT business_card (name, title, author?, contact_methods)>
<!ELEMENT name (given_name, middle_name?, family_name)><!ELEMENT given_name (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT middle_name (#PCDATA)><!ELEMENT family_name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT author EMPTY>
<!ELEMENT contact_methods (phone*)><!ELEMENT phone (#PCDATA)>
CONSTRAINTS? 0 or 1 elements* 0 or more
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Elements
Fundamental unit of XML – author-specific chunk of information
Consists of element name and element content One element at top – root or document element Four types of allowable content
data content – contain only data Element content – contain only other elements Empty – contain neither data or elements Mixed content – contain both data and elements (viewed
as poor practice) Attributes – attribute name and value, bounded by
quotation marks database DBTYPE=“Oracle” column DATATYPE=“String”
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Well formed XML There is one root element All nonempty elements have start
tags and end tags that match exactly
All empty elements have the correct empty tag syntax
Elements are strictly nested – no overlapping elements
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Entities Elements and attributes are logical
mechanisms – enable authors to specify logical meaning of document content
Entities are structural mechanisms – enable authors to manipulate physical structure
Entity associates an entity name with a fragment of content
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Entities in XML (4) Internal parsed entities –
<!ENTITY author “Kevin Parks”> would allow “&author” within document and have it replaced by Kevin Parks
External parsed entities – include entire file as part of document
<!ENTITY address_section SYSTEM “./address.xml”<!ENTITY lineitems_section SYSTEM “./lineitems.xml”<!ENTITY payment_section SYSTEM “./payment.xml”&address_section;&lineitems_section;&payment_section;
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Unparsed entities – allow authors to insert arbitrary data in document – may not be XML, XML process will not attempt to parse such an entity
Parameter entities – work only in DTDs to specify an enumerated list of allowable attribute values.
<!ENTITY % card_list “VISA|Mastercard|Amex|Discover”>CARDTYPE (%card_list;)#REQUIRED>