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| author | MST 2003 John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net> | 2003-01-27 00:39:50 +0000 |
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| committer | John Fleck <jfleck@src.gnome.org> | 2003-01-27 00:39:50 +0000 |
| commit | 731967ea575bdc34d34845172b241950b6bfa4df (patch) | |
| tree | c4d17c53b59e2e7f4c5db4b3ac6dd729a6dfcf3d /doc/tutorial/xmltutorial.xml | |
| parent | 937362d30cd1d60b626bdcc74e4b0f700eae1b42 (diff) | |
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in docs/tutorial: apa.html apb.html apc.html apd.html ape.html apf.html
Sun Jan 26 17:37:06 MST 2003 John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net>
in docs/tutorial:
* apa.html
* apb.html
* apc.html
* apd.html
* ape.html
* apf.html
* apg.html
* ar01s02.html
* ar01s03.html
* ar01s04.html
* ar01s05.html
* ar01s06.html
* ar01s07.html
* ar01s08.html
* index.html
* xmltutorial.pdf
* xmltutorial.xml
add index to tutorial
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/tutorial/xmltutorial.xml')
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1 files changed, 59 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tutorial/xmltutorial.xml b/doc/tutorial/xmltutorial.xml index 5e1f7939..8fda4efc 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial/xmltutorial.xml +++ b/doc/tutorial/xmltutorial.xml @@ -17,29 +17,39 @@ <email>jfleck@inkstain.net</email> </author> <copyright> - <year>2002</year> + <year>2002, 2003</year> <holder>John Fleck</holder> </copyright> <revhistory> <revision> <revnumber>1</revnumber> <date>June 4, 2002</date> + <revremark>Initial draft</revremark> </revision> <revision> <revnumber>2</revnumber> <date>June 12, 2002</date> + <revremark>retrieving attribute value added</revremark> </revision> <revision> <revnumber>3</revnumber> <date>Aug. 31, 2002</date> + <revremark>freeing memory fix</revremark> </revision> <revision> <revnumber>4</revnumber> <date>Nov. 10, 2002</date> + <revremark>encoding discussion added</revremark> </revision> <revision> <revnumber>5</revnumber> <date>Dec. 15, 2002</date> + <revremark>more memory freeing changes</revremark> + </revision> + <revision> + <revnumber>6</revnumber> + <date>Jan. 26. 2003</date> + <revremark>add index</revremark> </revision> </revhistory> </articleinfo> @@ -97,7 +107,10 @@ <para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> - <term><ulink + <term><indexterm> + <primary>xmlChar</primary> + </indexterm> +<ulink url="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLCHAR">xmlChar</ulink></term> <listitem> <para>A basic replacement for char, a byte in a UTF-8 encoded @@ -108,7 +121,9 @@ </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term> + <term><indexterm> + <primary>xmlDoc</primary> + </indexterm> <ulink url="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLDOC">xmlDoc</ulink></term> <listitem> <para>A structure containing the tree created by a parsed doc. <ulink @@ -117,7 +132,10 @@ </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> - <term><ulink + <term><indexterm> + <primary>xmlNodePtr</primary> + </indexterm> +<ulink url="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLNODEPTR">xmlNodePtr</ulink> and <ulink url="http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#XMLNODE">xmlNode</ulink></term> <listitem> @@ -133,7 +151,10 @@ <sect1 id="xmltutorialparsing"> <title>Parsing the file</title> - <para>Parsing the file requires only the name of the file and a single + <para><indexterm id="fileparsing" class="startofrange"> + <primary>file parsing</primary> + </indexterm> +Parsing the file requires only the name of the file and a single function call, plus error checking. Full code: <xref linkend="keywordappendix" /></para> <para> @@ -176,7 +197,10 @@ was not, <application>libxml</application> will at this point register an error and stop. <note> - <para>One common example of an error at this point is improper + <para><indexterm> + <primary>encoding</primary> + </indexterm> +One common example of an error at this point is improper handling of encoding. The <acronym>XML</acronym> standard requires documents stored with an encoding other than UTF-8 or UTF-16 to contain an explicit declaration of their encoding. If the @@ -200,12 +224,17 @@ tutorial.</para> </callout> </calloutlist> + <indexterm startref="fileparsing" class="endofrange" /> </para> </sect1> <sect1 id="xmltutorialgettext"> <title>Retrieving Element Content</title> - <para>Retrieving the content of an element involves traversing the document + <para><indexterm> + <primary>element</primary> + <secondary>retrieving content</secondary> + </indexterm> +Retrieving the content of an element involves traversing the document tree until you find what you are looking for. In this case, we are looking for an element called "keyword" contained within element called "story". The process to find the node we are interested in involves tediously walking the @@ -289,7 +318,11 @@ parseStory (xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr cur) { <sect1 id="xmltutorialwritingcontent"> <title>Writing element content</title> - <para>Writing element content uses many of the same steps we used above + <para><indexterm> + <primary>element</primary> + <secondary>writing content</secondary> + </indexterm> +Writing element content uses many of the same steps we used above — parsing the document and walking the tree. We parse the document, then traverse the tree to find the place we want to insert our element. For this example, we want to again find the "storyinfo" element and @@ -335,7 +368,11 @@ parseStory (xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr cur, char *keyword) { <sect1 id="xmltutorialwritingattribute"> <title>Writing Attribute</title> - <para>Writing an attribute is similar to writing text to a new element. In + <para><indexterm> + <primary>attribute</primary> + <secondary>writing</secondary> + </indexterm> +Writing an attribute is similar to writing text to a new element. In this case, we'll add a reference <acronym>URI</acronym> to our document. Full code:<xref linkend="addattributeappendix" />.</para> <para> @@ -378,7 +415,11 @@ parseStory (xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr cur, char *keyword) { <sect1 id="xmltutorialattribute"> <title>Retrieving Attributes</title> - <para>Retrieving the value of an attribute is similar to the previous + <para><indexterm> + <primary>attribute</primary> + <secondary>retrieving value</secondary> + </indexterm> +Retrieving the value of an attribute is similar to the previous example in which we retrieved a node's text contents. In this case we'll extract the value of the <acronym>URI</acronym> we added in the previous section. Full code: <xref linkend="getattributeappendix" />.</para> @@ -428,12 +469,15 @@ getReference (xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr cur) { <sect1 id="xmltutorialconvert"> <title>Encoding Conversion</title> - <para>Data encoding compatibility problems are one of the most common + <para><indexterm> + <primary>encoding</primary> + </indexterm> +Data encoding compatibility problems are one of the most common difficulties encountered by programmers new to <acronym>XML</acronym> in general and <application>libxml</application> in particular. Thinking through the design of your application in light of this issue will help avoid difficulties later. Internally, <application>libxml</application> - stores and manipulates date in the UTF-8 format. Data used by your program + stores and manipulates data in the UTF-8 format. Data used by your program in other formats, such as the commonly used ISO-8859-1 encoding, must be converted to UTF-8 before passing it to <application>libxml</application> functions. If you want your program's output in an encoding other than @@ -559,11 +603,13 @@ getReference (xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr cur) { <programlisting>&CONVERT;</programlisting> </para> </appendix> + <index> + </index> <appendix> <title>Acknowledgements</title> <para>A number of people have generously offered feedback, code and suggested improvements to this tutorial. In no particular order: - <simplelist> + <simplelist type="inline"> <member>Daniel Veillard</member> <member>Marcus Labib Iskander</member> <member>Christopher R. Harris</member> |
