Using SOAP in PHP - XML tutorial

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This tutorial describes:

Simple XML Elements with Pre-defined Data Types
Simple XML Elements with Extended Data Types
Complex XML Elements
Simple Content XML Elements
Empty XML Elements
Anomymous Data Types
Sample XSD File - dictionary.xsd

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

This article provides notes and tutorial examples on the free XML editor and XML Schema processor, XMLPad. Topics include installing WMHelp XMLPad Pro, assigning XML Schema to XML documents, validating XML documents, generating XML schema diagram.

We will make a document template for creating XML documents that can be viewed in Web browsers as HTML documents. In this tutorial, we will create a document type definition (DTD) for this template.

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.