On the Subject of XML

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On the Subject of XML

• Presentation for the course
• XML-Technology in E-Commerce
• 232055

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Presentation Outline

• Problem definition
• Solution description
• Demo
• Demo explanation
• Problems encountered
• Possibilities for the future

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Problem Definition

• www.subject.nl
• Only direct search for articles
• Attract more visitors
• Extended index
• Newsletter

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Solution Description
DataBase
XSL
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Demo

• Demo creating the extended index from the
  database
• Tools
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• PHP DOM parser
• MySQL
• Demo files
• create_index.php
• index.xsl

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Demo Explanation

• Use of DOM parser in PHP
• Buffer XML-file
• Stylesheets
• XSL
• CSS

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Problems Encountered

• Minor PHP problems
• Creating Processing Instructions
• Amount of data
• Namespaces
• Adjustment to specification

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Future

• Fixing different problems
• Data-amount
• Processing Instruction
• Use of extra RSS-modules
• Images
• Dates
• More possibilities
• RSS-channels on different topics
• www.prijsindex.net

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Questions?