XML Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP - Softcover

Brown, Martin C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0782140211 ISBN 13: 9780782140217

Publisher: Sybex Inc, 2001

Synopsis

-The only book that focuses on the usage of XML with the most popular scripting languages, including Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Rebol, TCL, and Mac OS X's AppleScript.
-Complete coverage of the core XML processing issues, including the basics of parsing XML documents, converting XML to and from different formats and translating objects for use with databases.
-This book goes beyond the basics into advanced topics, such as using the SAX API for Perl, and using SOAP and XML-RPC to share XML formatted information over a network connection.

About this title

About the Author

Martin C. Brown has been a programmer and systems manager for eleven years and has worked for a variety of organizations, including a university, an ISP, and an advertising agency. He specializes in making computers easier to use and more accessible to people who are not computer literate, and in integrating different platforms in the same environment. A full-time author, Martin spends most of his time writing programming books, despite his efforts to avoid getting sucked too far into the programming world. He is the author of eleven other titles, including Perl! I Didn't Know You Could Do That..., Perl: The Complete Reference, Python: The Complete Reference, and Debugging Perl.

From the Back Cover

XML is an elegant solution to the problem of data portability. Like all breakthroughs, however, it gives rise to new challenges. With XML, you can store and structure data for seamless, cross-platform exchange-which is especially crucial in today's e-commerce environments. But XML does no processing itself. To leverage XML data, you need to use a programming language.

XML Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP teaches you to reap the special advantages of processing your XML with these and four other scripting languages, which-as you'll see-trump C, C++, and Java in a variety of ways. Along this path lie shorter development times and lower costs. At its end lie performance benefits such as superior text processing, memory management, and data modeling capabilities, as well as strategic benefits such as greater longevity and broader compatibility.

Choose the language that makes the most sense for you and move ahead. With this book's help, you'll master the execution of remote procedures, the internal modeling of XML data, the exporting of internal data into XML, and the conversion of XML to formats as varied as SQL, HTML, and proprietary configuration schemes. Application-specific examples keep you focused on the real world; at the same time, the scripting techniques you'll learn all rise above specific applications. Like XML data, they're flexible, and they'll serve you well in whatever context you're working.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0782140211
• ISBN 13: 9780782140217
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 422