Access Your iTunes Music Library via XML - XML tutorial

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This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning PHP himself. Topics include ActivePerl, Axis, Binding, Data Model, Encoding, HTTP, Java, Message, Message Exchange Patterns, NuSOAP, online, PEAR, PHP, Properties, RPC, SOA, SOAP 1.2, SOAP Extension, SOAP::Lite, UDDI, Web Method, Web service, WSDL

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Google Maps is an online mapping tool that is without a doubt one of the coolest online resources I've ever used. Online map services aren't really new but Google Maps is so unique in its map interface that it is truly a groundbreaking application.
In this tutorial, you'll learn: How to create a complete XML-based custom Google Maps application

Although XML is certainly a great storage format for shuttling data around the Web, most web applications store their data in relational databases. Knowing this, it stands to reason that many web applications will end up accessing data from a database yet interacting with it and sharing it with other applications as XML data. This has a lot do with the fact that XML can be used not only as a document format, but also as a way to represent data in a highly structured manner. In this tutorial, you learn how relational databases work and how you can integrate your XML applications with relational databases. More specifically, you find out how to export database data as XML code, as well as how to make SQL queries on a database and format the results in XML.

RSS is XML-based technology, which simply means that the language used to code news feeds is an XML markup language. There are a variety of different ways that you can use RSS. You can display RSS feeds from other web sites on your web site, you can build your own library of RSS feeds and view them regularly using special software called a news aggregator, or you can syndicate your own site using RSS so that other people can view your feeds. This tutorial touches on all of these uses of RSS.
In this hour, you'll learn
- The historical drama of how RSS came to be
- How to use a news aggregator to syndicate RSS news feeds
- How to create and validate your own RSS documents
- How to transform and display RSS news feeds using XSLT