On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 11:24 PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:
I am slowly familiarizing myself with XML as a "must know" subject..
In reading through XML tutorials and the Annotated XML Specification at xml.com, I do not find any reference any where to the word "node" which we see throughout the Rev XML library. I suspect this is a synonym for some standard XML term...
Question 1: What is an XML node?
Not sure, but I think it is synonymous with an XML "element". But the semantics are that a node is part of a tree structure. So it's an XML element that maybe has parent node, sibling nodes and children nodes.
Question 2: (OT) for the complete XML newbie... what is your recommendation to get up to speed... with such a vast number or resources on the web and tons of books... its hard to focus....
I think the SOAP_toolbox.rev tutorial (in your Sample Stacks folder) is a good learning resource. It's well written, walks you through an interesting real-world use of XML, and the revSoap functions use transcript's revXML functions. After seeing how SOAP works, and what the XML looks like, then read the source code for SOAP_toolbox.rev as well as the revSoap library (it's not a lot of code). Then just experiment with the revXML* functions. You will learn a lot faster this way than trying to stay awake through the Annotated XML Spec.
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com
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