CompSci497
Advanced XML Programming with XmlPL
Lecture Notes
Friday, Febuary 2nd, 2007

Contents

1. Basic XmlPL Programming
   1. Hello World (Beat to death)
   2. Producing XML
   3. Reading XML
   4. XmlPL Path Expressions
2. Intro to Web Applications with XmlPL

• Hello World!
• Hello World Wide Web!
• Hello World! CGI aka Common Gateway Interface

• The Basics: Element, Attribute, Text, Comment Processing Instruction (example) (output)
• Programmatic XML: (example) (output)
• Adding Attributes Programmaticly: (example) (output)

• XML input via standard in (stdin)
• Opening a file
• Opening a URL
• (example) (output)

• Steps and Axis: Child, Parent, Self, Attribute, Processing Instruction, Descendant-or-self
• Node Test: Name or Type
• Predicates
• Result types
• Differences between XPath and XmlPL Path Expressions

• RSS: Reuters: Science (example) (output)
• RSS: Reuters: Feeds (example) (app)