XML Programming with VB and ASP

Finally, you have everything a VB and ASP developer needs to keep up with the explosive growth of XML.

What's inside

• Gets you programming Fast with over 100 easy
  
• VB and ASP code samples
  
• Advanced 3-tier solutions in UML
  
• Descriptions and examples for over 50 Microsoft DOM
  
• methods and properties
  
• Case studies an when to use XML in your business
  
• All about XSL, DTDs, namespaces, and more
  
• When and how to use webclasses, data islands, and other
  
• advanced programming concepts
  
• Covers Biztalk and Schemas

Table of contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Acknowledgments

About the Cover Illustration

Chapter 1: Why XML?

1.1 Overview

1.2 XML enables data sharing

Chapter 2: XML boot camp

2.1 Overview

2.2 XML and its derivatives is a huge topic

Chapter 3: Why would a business use XML?

3.1 Overview

3.2 The business problem

3.3 User scenarios

3.4 Solving the problem with XML and XSL

Chapter 4: Programming with XML

4.1 Overview

4.2 The W3C Document Object Model

4.3 Navigating the Microsoft XML DOM

4.4 Data Islands—getting started with XML

4.5 Getting the Microsoft XML objects onto your PC

4.6 Creating the objects

4.7 Loading a file synchronously

4.8 Loading a file asynchronously

4.9 A roundtrip on using the DOM object with a TreeView

4.10 Saving an XML document to a file in ASP

4.11 Handling errors and debugging

4.12 Accessing the XML with ASP

4.13 Sending data back to the user

4.14 Communicating with the server from VB using XMLHTTPRequest

Chapter 5: XSL—adding style to XML

5.1 Overview

5.2 What can XSL do?

5.3 Debugging your XML and XSL with IE5

5.4 Building the HTML output

5.5 Patterns

5.6 How to make a hyperlink

5.7 Summary

Chapter 6: Building XML solutions

6.1 Overview

6.2 What do we want to achieve in these examples'

6.3 A quick overview of the examples

6.4 Implements

6.5 Techniques for reusing business objects

6.6 Creating the projects

6.7 SimpleUI—just the basics

6.8 XMLDemo—a more complete example

6.9 Summary

Chapter 7: The Microsoft DOM objects in detail

7.1 Overview

7.2 DOM objects

7.3 DOM object properties

7.4 DOM object methods

Chapter 8: Schemas, BizTalk, and eCommerce

8.1 An introduction to eCommerce

8.2 Why do our systems need a Schema?

8.3 Using the data types that are available

8.4 BizTalk, where it's all happening!

8.5 Summary

Chapter 9: Where to go from here

9.1 The End

9.2 Check out the online glossary

9.3 Investigate future technologies

9.4 Join the http://www.vbxml.com VB, ASP, and XML discussions

9.5 Author Online at http://www.manning.com

9.6 Newsgroups 281

9.7 W3C discussion groups

9.8 Links, links, and more links

Index