A collection of 24 free tutorial books by Herong Yang on latest programming technologies. Tutorials in all books are based on Herong's personal experience and ideal for developers to learn new programming technologies.
When the only thing you've got is a XML Hammer, every solution looks like XML.
The XML Hammer application is a free and open-source tool that simplifies elementary XML actions like checking for well-formedness, validation, transformation and xpath searches using any JAXP implementation.
After all these years of XML, it is still relatively difficult to simply validate or transform XML files. You are currently either forced to use extensive, sometimes expensive, and most often difficult to use tools with a lot of extra functionality unnecessary for these simple tasks and very often not flexible enough to provide what you want, or you will have to be almost a programmer and create your own application or script to handle these elementary XML related tasks.
The XML Hammer tool addresses these issues by providing a free and open-source tool that has a (relatively) simple to use user-interface however still allowing the flexibility for the user to specify anything that he/she would have been able to specify when writing a script for this same task him/herself.
The functionality of the XML Hammer tool is based on the capabilities provided by the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and supports the JAXP API as fully as possible. To achieve this, the functionality has been divided into five specific project types:
XPath Explorer (XPE) is a GUI application that lets you interactively experiment with XPath. Basically, you type in a URL (to an XML or HTML document) and an XPath expression, and it displays the elements or attributes from that document which match that
XRay is a free XML editing enviroment. Now in its second major release, XRay provides support for XML Schema (XSD) and an integrated online XML tutorial system.
AtomicWiki is entirely based on the Atom Publishing Protocol and syndication format. All entries are stored as Atom feeds. The Atom Publishing Protocol is used to create and manipulate feeds and entries. The entire system is implemented in XQuery and XSLT with the help of some Javascript for the AJAX goodies (like in-page comment editing). What makes the software really powerful is its tight integration with XQuery and XML databases. Macros and extensions to the wiki syntax are implemented as XQuery functions. XQuery code can also be directly embedded into an Atom entry to generate dynamic content. The eXist weblog is powered by AtomicWiki.
This article will show that the Eclipse platform is a viable platform for technical publishing by discussing how to write documents such as an article or a book within Eclipse.
Stop learning proprietary languages and memorizing template tags. Symphony leverages open standards like XML and XSLT, and good old XHTML and CSS. Even the admin interface employs the widely-used jQuery library, so extension developers don’t have to learn a whole new framework when extending the back end.