IS 337: Website Administration
Lecture for September 19: XML, XPath, DOM
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Topics
- DOM (Document Object Model)
- Items, nodes, atomic values
- Nodes: document node, element node, attribute node
- Parent, child, sibling, ancestor, descendant
- XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
- Make up your own tags and attributes.
- Nest and close properly.
- XPath
- Process XML document using DOM.
- XPath syntax
Readings and Resources
- "XPath Tutorial" from W3Schools.
- BrainJar.com's "Introduction to the Document Object Model"
Quick Written Assignment for Next Time
Using the department's home page write the following XPaths:
- Find all of the
divs in thebody. - Find any tag in the
bodythat has attributeclassset toarrows - Find the first
dlin the foot specifying the path exactly.
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