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Issue 7.2

FEATURE

XML For REAL: The Basics

Getting started with XML and REALbasic

Issue: 7.2 (January/February 2009)
Author: JC Cruz
Author Bio: JC is a freelance technical writer living in British Columbia. He writes for various publications, pokes around with Cocoa, Python and REALbasic, and spends time with his nephew. He can be reached at: anarakisware@gmail.com
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Article Length (in bytes): 43,498
Starting Page Number: 33
Article Number: 7211
Related Web Link(s):

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.dtd
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema

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Welcome to the first in the series of XML articles. This series will show you how to work with XML data using REALbasic. Now in this article, you will learn the parts of an XML document. Then you will learn what makes up a valid document. Next, you will look at a handful of XML classes in REALbasic. You will then use these classes to create, query, and save a simple XML document.

The XML Anatomy

XML, or Extensible Markup Language, first came into the computing scene in the late 1990s. It is meant as a simple, yet versatile, successor to the SGML format. Like SGML and its specialized cousin HTML, XML stores its data as human-readable text. Like those two, it marks each data using text tags. XML, however, takes the extra step of letting you define your own tags.

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