Communicating with XML

This book provides extensive insight into the possibilities and challenges of XML in building new information management solutions in networked organizations. After a brief introduction to Web communication features and XML fundamentals, the book examines the benefits of adopting XML and illustrates...

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Main Authors Salminen, Airi, Tompa, Frank
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer-Verlag 2011
Springer
Springer US
Edition1. Aufl.
Subjects
Computer networks
Computer Science
Information Systems and Communication Service
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
IT in Business
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
XML (Document markup language)
Computer Software
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Table of Contents:
  • 8.1 Persistent Storage of XML Data -- 8.1.1 Special Characteristics and Requirements -- 8.1.2 XML Management Solutions -- 8.1.2.1 Content Management Systems -- 8.1.2.2 XML-Enabled Database Systems -- 8.1.2.3 Native XML Database Systems -- 8.1.3 Migration into XML Format -- 8.2 When Not to Use XML -- 8.2.1 Not to Replace Database Technology Universally -- 8.2.2 Not to Replace Other Proven Technologies Arbitrarily -- 8.2.3 Risks in the Development and Deployment of New XML Applications -- 8.3 Case Study: Government Applications -- 8.3.1 The Case of the Finnish Parliament and Government Ministries -- 8.3.2 The Case of Massachusetts -- 8.4 Conclusions -- References -- Appendix A: Introduction to XHTML -- Appendix B: History of XML -- B.1 Origins of the Internet -- B.2 Origins of SGML -- B.3 From the Internet to the World Wide Web -- B.4 From SGML to XML -- Historical Readings -- Appendix C: Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) -- Index
  • 3.7 Case Study: Business Applications -- References -- Chapter 4: Document Management -- 4.1 Structured Documents -- 4.1.1 Structure Versus Content Versus Layout -- 4.1.2 Characteristics of Structured Document Management -- 4.2 Transformations and XSLT -- 4.3 Rendering -- 4.3.1 Rendering with CSS -- 4.3.2 Rendering with XSL -- 4.4 Information Retrieval -- 4.4.1 Indexing -- 4.4.2 Retrieval Effectiveness and Ranking -- 4.4.3 Querying XML Data -- 4.5 Case Study: Storing and Accessing Dictionaries -- References -- Chapter 5: Data-Centric and Multimedia Components -- 5.1 Data Types in XML Schema -- 5.1.1 Classification of Data Types -- 5.1.2 Facets -- 5.1.3 Type Hierarchy -- 5.1.4 Example: Data Type Definitions for the UK Government -- 5.2 Numeric Data -- 5.3 Dates and Time -- 5.4 Graphics and Multimedia Data -- 5.4.1 Scalable Vector Graphics -- 5.4.1.1 Fundamentals of the SVG Language -- 5.4.1.2 Characteristics of the SVG Language -- 5.4.1.3 SVG Software -- 5.4.1.4 Application Areas -- 5.4.2 Multimedia -- 5.5 Scientific Data -- 5.5.1 Mathematical Data -- 5.5.2 Geospatial Data -- 5.6 Data for Humanities and Social Sciences -- 5.6.1 Electronic Books -- 5.6.2 Text Encoding Initiative -- References -- Chapter 6: Metadata -- 6.1 XML as Metadata and XML for Metadata -- 6.2 Resource Discovery -- 6.3 Dublin Core -- 6.4 Resource Management -- 6.4.1 Learning Object Metadata -- 6.4.2 Metadata for Records Management -- 6.4.3 Metadata for Preservation -- 6.5 RDF: Resource Description Framework -- 6.6 Semantic Web -- References -- Chapter 7: Data Interchange -- 7.1 EDI -- 7.2 Frameworks for Business Interactions -- 7.2.1 ebXML -- 7.2.2 RosettaNet -- 7.2.3 Industry-Specific Frameworks -- 7.3 Web Services -- 7.4 Security in Data Interchange -- 7.5 The Status of Interchange Standards -- References -- Chapter 8: Adopting XML for Large-Scale Information
  • Intro -- Chapter 1: Setting the Stage -- 1.1 Web Communications -- 1.2 Markup -- 1.3 Markup Languages -- 1.4 Document Type Definition -- 1.5 Types of XML Use -- 1.5.1 Documents and Web Pages -- 1.5.2 Other Primary Data -- 1.5.3 Metadata -- 1.5.4 Data Interchange and Web Services -- 1.6 Case Study: Communicating Via News Feeds -- References -- Chapter 2: Fundamentals -- 2.1 Formal Grammars -- 2.2 Processors and Applications -- 2.3 XML Documents -- 2.3.1 Logical Structure -- 2.3.1.1 Elements and Nested Structures -- 2.3.1.2 Unparsed Character Data -- 2.3.1.3 Attributes -- 2.3.1.4 Comments and Processing Instructions -- 2.3.1.5 Namespaces -- 2.3.2 Physical Structure -- 2.3.2.1 Entity Types -- 2.3.2.2 Motivations for the Use of Entities -- 2.3.3 Character Encoding -- 2.4 Declaring and Constraining Structures -- 2.4.1 DTD and Markup Declarations -- 2.4.2 Element Type Declarations -- 2.4.3 Attribute List Declarations -- 2.4.4 Entity and Notation Declarations -- 2.4.5 XML Processor Treatment of Entities and References -- 2.4.6 XML Schema -- 2.4.6.1 Overview -- 2.4.6.2 Declaring Elements and Defining Types -- 2.4.6.3 Declaring Attributes -- 2.4.6.4 Extended XSD Example -- 2.4.7 RELAX NG -- 2.5 Processing Models -- 2.5.1 Stream Processing -- 2.5.2 Tree Processing -- 2.5.3 Comparing Stream and Tree Processing -- References -- Chapter 3: Why Use XML? -- 3.1 Collaborative Standardization -- 3.1.1 Standardization at W3C -- 3.1.2 Sectoral Standardization -- 3.2 XML Family of Languages -- 3.2.1 Classification of the XML Languages -- 3.2.2 XML Accessories -- 3.2.3 XML Transducers -- 3.2.4 XML Applications -- 3.2.4.1 Web Publishing -- 3.2.4.2 Metadata and Semantic Web -- 3.2.4.3 Web Communication and Services -- 3.2.4.4 Non-textual Data -- 3.3 Variety of Software -- 3.4 Application-Independent Data Assets -- 3.5 Web-Enabled Access -- 3.6 Interoperability