XML

Eventually this will be the place to send people that want to do questionable things.

TODO: Fill this page with stuff. I'd also like a segment on semantic web and search e.g. using SPARQL and RDF, but this is a hard topic. Contributions welcome.

XPath basics

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XPath

• (scripting with XPath and XSLT tools e.g. xsltproc, xmllint, xmlstarlet)

Scripting with curl

• http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html

Generating curl commands

How to cheat...

firebug

chrome dev tools

postman

• http://www.getpostman.com/

Using XMLHttpRequest

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/AJAX

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/AJAX/Getting_Started

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Using_XMLHttpRequest

• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/xhr2/

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS (examples of basic server-side setup)

JQuery

• http://jqfundamentals.com/

• https://learn.jquery.com/

Scripting with CasperJS

• http://casperjs.org/

• (list other phantomjs or slimerjs tools)

Common XML libraries

lxml

• http://lxml.de/tutorial.html

• (Python examples)

System.XML

• http://www.xmlplease.com/xmlapiaspnet

• (C# / LINQ examples using XDocument, avoiding legacy APIs)

Other tools, validators, visualizers, tutorials

• nxml-mode

• jing / trang

• qxmledit

• xml copy editor

• xqilla

• XML catalog tutorial from libxml2