XML Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP: Also Covers Tel, Rebol, Ruby, and AppleScript - Softcover

Brown, Martin C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0782140211 ISBN 13: 9780782140217

Publisher: Sybex / John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

XML is an elegant solution to the problem of data portability. Like all breakthroughs, however, it gives rise to new challenges. With XML, you can store and structure data for seamless, cross–platform exchange—which is especially crucial in today′s e–commerce environments. But XML does no processing itself. To leverage XML data, you need to use a programming language.

XML Programming with Perl, Python, and PHP teaches you to reap the special advantage of processing your XML with these and four other scripting languages, which—as you′ll see—trump C, C++, and Java in a variety of ways. Along this path lie shorter development times and lower costs. At its end lie performance benefits such as superior text processing, memory management, and data modeling capabilities, as well as strategic benefits such as greater longevity and broader compatibility.

Choose the language that makes the most sense for you and move ahead. With this book′s help you′ll master the execution of remote procedures, the internal modeling of XML data, the exporting of internal data into XML, and the conversion of XML to formats as varied as SQL, HTML, and proprietary configuration schemes. Application–specific examples keep you focused on the real world; at the same time, the scripting techniques you′ll learn all rise above specific applications. Like XML data, they′re flexible, and they′ll serve you well in whatever context you′re working.

About this title

About the Author

Martin C. Brown has been a programmer and systems manager for eleven years and has worked for a variety of organizations, including a university, and ISP, and an advertising agency. He specializes in making computers easier to use and more accessible to people who are not computer literate, and in integrating different platforms in the same environment.
A full–time author, Martin spends most of his time writing programming books, despite his efforts to avoid getting sucked to far into the programming world. He is the author of eleven other titles, including Perl! I Didn′t Know You Could Do That... from Sybex, Perl: The Complete Reference, Python: The Complete Reference, and Debugging Perl. 

XML Programming with Perl, Python, and PHP teaches you to reap the special advantage of processing your XML with these and four other scripting languages, which—as you′ll see—trump C, C++, and Java in a variety of ways. Along this path lie shorter development times and lower costs. At its end lie performance benefits such as superior text processing, memory management, and data modeling capabilities, as well as strategic benefits such as greater longevity and broader compatibility.

Choose the language that makes the most sense for you and move ahead. With this book′s help you′ll master the execution of remote procedures, the internal modeling of XML data, the exporting of internal data into XML, and the conversion of XML to formats as varied as SQL, HTML, and proprietary configuration schemes. Application–specific examples keep you focused on the real world; at the same time, the scripting techniques you′ll learn all rise above specific applications. Like XML data, they′re flexible, and they′ll serve you well in whatever context you′re working.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sybex / John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0782140211
• ISBN 13: 9780782140217
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 422