Lecture Notes

• An Introduction to XML.
• An Introduction to DTD.
• An Introduction to MSXML: the Microsoft's XML parser.
• weather.html: finding weather information.  This application retrieves weather information from a site   http://zowie.metnet.navy.mil/cgi-bin/oleg/get-obs using the format OMF, which is XML compliant.  It then uses the Microsoft XML parser to parse the information and display it.  Source code. (Not working later, probably due to format change at the server site).
• A stock quote server (may not be running all the time).

Class Examples

    Currently, IE 5.0+ must be used to view the examples

• SimplePaper.css: a CSS file describing styles of XML elements for writing a simple paper.
• SimplePaperExample.xml: an non-validated XML file using SimplePaper.css, must use IE 5.0 to view.
• addressBook.dtd: a simple data type definition for address books.
• addressBookExample.xml: a validated XML file using addressBook.dtd.
• A simple example on transforming XML document:
• students.xml: using the XSL students_transform1.xsl.
• students_transform1.xsl : XSL for students.xml.
• student_output.xml : applying students_transform.xsl to students.xml.
• A simple example on HTML output:
• students_html.xml.
• students_html.xsl : for students_html.xsl.

Useful Links

• An XML FAQ.
• A DTDGenerator Frontend.

WML

• Stock quote example: 129.7.166.74/yue/wml/stockquotewml.pl (may not be running all the time).