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No Nonsense XML Web Development With PHP

Table Of Contents

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0. Preface
   • Who Should Read this Book?
   • What’s in this Book?
   • The Book’s Website
     • The Code Archive
     • Updates and Errata
   • The SitePoint Forums
   • The SitePoint Newsletters
   • Your Feedback
   • Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to XML
   • An Introduction to XML
     • What is XML?
     • Why Do We Need XML?
     • A Closer Look at the XML Example
     • Formatting Issues
     • Well-Formedness and Validity
   • Getting Your Hands Dirty
     • Viewing Raw XML in Internet Explorer
     • Viewing Raw XML in Firefox
     • Options for Using a Validating Parser
     • What if I Can’t Get a Validating Parser?
   • Starting Our CMS Project
     • So, What’s a Content Management System?
     • Requirements Gathering
     • Defining your Content Types
     • Gathering Requirements for Content Display
     • Gathering Requirements for the Administrative Tool
   • Summary
2. XML in Practice
   • Meet the Family
   • A Closer Look at XHTML
     • A Minimalist XHTML Example
   • XML Namespaces
     • Declaring Namespaces
     • Placing Namespace Declarations in your XML Documents
     • Using Default Namespaces
   • Using CSS to Display XML In a Browser
   • Getting to Know XSLT
     • Your First XSLT Exercise
     • Transforming XML into HTML
     • Using XSLT to Transform XML into other XML
   • Our CMS Project
     • News
   • Summary
3. DTDs for Consistency
   • Consistency in XML
     • What’s the Big Deal About Consistency?
     • DTDs
   • Getting Our Hands Dirty
     • Our First Case: A Corporate Memo
     • Second Case: Using an External DTD for Memos
   • Our CMS Project
     • Reworking the Way we Track Author Information
     • Assign DTDs to our Project Documents?
   • Summary
4. Displaying XML in a Browser
   • A Word on XPath
   • A Practical XSLT Application
     • A First Attempt at Formatting
     • Using XPath to Discern Element Context
     • Matching Attribute Values with XPath
     • Using value-of to Extract Information
   • Our CMS Project
     • Why Start with the Display Side?
     • Creating a Common Include File
     • Creating a Search Widget Include File
     • Building the Homepage
     • Creating an Inner Page
   • Summary
5. XSLT in Detail
   • XPath
   • Programmatic Aspects of XSLT
     • Sorting
     • Counting
     • Numbering
     • Conditional Processing
     • Looping Through XML Data
   • Our CMS Project
     • Finishing our Search Engine
     • Creating an XSLT-Powered Site Map
   • Summary
6. Manipulating XML with JavaScript/DHTML
   • Why Use Client-Side Scripting?
   • Working with the DOM
     • Loading Documents into Memory
     • Accessing Different parts of the Document
   • XSLT Processing with JavaScript
     • Making our Test Script Cross-Browser Compatible
     • Creating Dynamic Navigation
   • Our CMS Project
     • Assigning Content to Categories
     • Retrieving Content by Category
   • Summary
7. Manipulating XML with PHP
   • Using SAX
     • Creating Handlers
     • Creating the Parser and Processing the XML
   • Using DOM
     • Creating a DOM Parser
     • Retrieving Elements
     • Creating Nodes
     • Printing XML from DOM
   • Using SimpleXML
     • Loading XML Documents
     • The XML Element Hierarchy
     • XML Attribute Values
     • XPath Queries
     • Using SimpleXML to Update XML
     • Fixing SimpleXML Shortcomings with DOM
   • When to Use the Different Methods
   • Our CMS Project
     • The Login Page
     • The Admin Index Page
     • Working with Articles
   • Summary
8. RSS and RDF
   • What are RSS and RDF?
     • What’s the Big Deal?
     • What Kind of Information Should be Featured in an RSS Feed?
     • Before We Get Started
   • Creating Your First Basic RSS Feed
     • Telling the World about your Feed
     • Going Beyond the Basics
   • RDF and RSS 1.0
     • Adding Information with Dublin Core
     • When to use RSS 1.0
   • Parsing RSS Feeds
     • Parsing our Feed with SimpleXML
   • Our CMS Project
     • Creating an RSS Feed
   • Summary
9. XML and Web Services
   • What is a Web Service?
     • What’s the Big Deal?
     • What are Web Services Good At?
   • XML-RPC
     • The XML-RPC Data Model
     • XML-RPC Requests
     • XML-RPC Responses
     • What do we Use to Process XML-RPC?
   • SOAP
     • What we Haven’t Covered
   • Our CMS Project
     • Building an XML-RPC Server
     • Building an XML-RPC Client that Counts Articles
     • Building an XML-RPC Client that Searches Articles
   • Summary
10. XML and Databases
    • XML and Databases
      • Why use XML and Databases Together?
      • Relational Database? Native XML Database? Somewhere in Between?
    • Converting Relational Data to XML
      • Using phpMyAdmin to Export XML
      • Using mysqldump to Export XML
      • Hand-Rolling an XML Converter
    • Our CMS Project
      • Building the MySQL Table
      • Building the PHP
      • Setting up a Cron Schedule to Run Periodically
    • Summary
11. Appendix A: PHP XML Functions
    • SAX Functions
      • Error Code Constants
      • Function Listing
    • DOM Functions
      • Object Listing
      • Function Listing
    • SimpleXML Functions
      • Function Listing
      • SimpleXMLElement methods
12. Appendix B: CMS Administration Tool
    • Picking Up Where We Left Off
    • Managing Web Copy
      • Web Copy Index Page
      • Web Copy Creation Page
      • New Web Copy Processing Script
      • Web Copy Editing Page
      • Web Copy Update Processing Script
      • Web Copy Delete Processing Script
    • Managing News Items
      • News Item Index Page
      • News Item Creation Page
      • New News Item Processing Script
      • News Item Editing Page
      • News Item Update Processing Script
      • News Item Delete Processing Script
    • Managing Authors, Administrators, and Categories
      • Managing Authors
      • Managing Administrators
      • Managing Categories
    • Updating the Admin Index Page
    • Summary
13. Index