Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module A301. This topic is presented on public courses Deploying LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP, Linux Web Server, Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix

XML provides you with the ability to mark up data that's held in a plain text format to describe what each piece of the data is about. This module introduces you to basic XML, and the tools (XSLT, parsers, etc.) that you'll need to make practical use of it.

Using LWP to write Web Clients
Handling XML in Java

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1050	The HTML++ Metalanguage What's the difference between a language and a metalanguage? A language is a single specification - a way of describing a series of actions or how some particular data is handled. Whereas a metalanguage is a way of specifying a series of languages to a particular pattern. An example? HTML is a language. ...	2010-01-31
2554	Adding retrospective ALT attributes to IMG You'll find this is article number 2554 on this blog ... with article number 1 written as long ago as 5th August 2004. I didn't plan that I would still be writing five years later (I thought, to be frank, that I would run out of things to say in a few weeks), nor did I properly anticipate the amount ...	2009-12-28
2378	Handling XML in Perl - introduction and early examples There are hundreds of modules (literally) in Perl for handing XML. Some of them are highly specialised, but others are of much more general use in reading (and in some cases writing) XML streams. (definition of XML: Extended Markup Language - a tagging system in plain text for marking up data; not ...	2009-08-27
2246	What difference does using the XHTML standard really make? I enclose my HTML attributes in quotes - or at least when I remember, I do! I always provide a matching close tag to go with each opening tag - except when I forget to do so, or am in a hurry I make sure I provide an alt attribute with each image - although sometimes I really don't know what I would ...	2009-06-22
1901	XML, HTML, XHTML and more HTML is a language ... but XML is a Metalanguage. In other words, you can write something in HTML and have it (quite) well defined, whereas anything you write in XML has to have another layer of definition there to tell you what's valid and what isn't. XML is a set of over-arching rules in which you ...	2008-11-23
653	Easy feed! Want to provide sites that work close along side you with a feed of your blog? In recent versions of PHP, you can include a remote file from their server in your page. Here's a little example that's on our site - we're pulling down a piece of PHP via a URL. Want the latest news from Well House Consultants? ...	2006-06-05

capname.pl	Altering an XML document through LibXML
imglist.xsl	XSLT sample - produces a table of images
reminder.html	Sample HTML document from this module
xml5.pl	Alternative - using handlers
xslt.php4	Process an XML file through XSLT in PHP

The DOM and SAX models for handling XML data