Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Introduction
- Part I: At a Glance
- Day 1. Welcome to XML
- Day 2. Creating XML Documents
- Day 3. Creating Well-Formed XML Documents
- Day 4. Creating Valid XML Documents: DTDs
- Declaring Attributes in DTDs
- Day 6. Creating Valid XML Documents: XML Schemas
- Day 7. Creating Types in XML Schemas
- Part I. In Review
- Day 8. Formatting XML by Using Cascading Style Sheets
- Day 9. Formatting XML by Using XSLT
- Day 10. Working with XSL Formatting Objects
- Part II. In Review
- Part III: At a Glance
- Day 11. Extending HTML with XHTML
- Day 12. Putting XHTML to Work
- Day 13. Creating Graphics and Multimedia: SVG and SMIL
- Day 14. Handling XLinks, XPointers, and XForms
- Part III. In Review
- Part IV: At a Glance
- Day 15. Using JavaScript and XML
- Day 16. Using Java and .NET: DOM
- Day 17. Using Java and .NET: SAX
- Day 18. Working with SOAP and RDF
- Part IV. In Review
- Part V: At a Glance
- Day 19. Handling XML Data Binding
- Day 20. Working with XML and Databases
- Day 21. Handling XML in .NET
- Part V. In Review
- Appendix A. Quiz Answers
Day 18. Working with SOAP and RDF
Today you're going to take a look at two important XML applications—Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). SOAP is an XML-based protocol that allows applications to communicate on the Web. RDF lets us describe resources in a standard way that is machine readable, and it's often used to describe Web documents (although we can use it to describe any type of resource). Here's an overview of the topics covered today:
- Using SOAP
- Using SOAP envelopes, headers, and bodies
- Using SOAP to communicate between Web applications
- Using SOAP in .NET
- Using SOAP with Java
- Creating RDF documents
- Using the Dublin Core
- Using abbreviated RDF syntax
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