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Assignments XML.2

Handing In Assignments

You must hand in by using git

Hand In by git

  • Create an empty repo on bitbucket.org, gitlab.com, or github.com,
  • git push your local repo to the above remote repo.
  • For node assignments please put the line(s)

    node_modules/

    into your .gitignore file.

Send a mail to with:

  • The word 'handin <subjectname>' in the subject line of your mail
  • The url of your repo(s).

Assignment XML.2.0

Draw a diagram of a tree structure, such as:

Figure 41.2. Tree Structure

Recommended drawing software: Dia. Download the drawing in dia-format by right-clicking: tree0.dia.


The assignment is to expand the drawing so that you are able to point out examples of all axes mentioned in Example 41.1 in todays chapter. This means telling us what is a parent, whar is a sibling etc, and relate it to the diagram.

Assignment XML.2.1

Look at the following books file as XML. You have previously written a schema for it.

Example 41.2. BooksCanon.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE schema [
<!ENTITY euro "&#8364;">
]>
<booksCanon
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="booksCanon.xsd">
  <book ref="Llo08" mycanon="mdu,all">
    <title>Learn How to Build Web Sites the Right Way from Scratch</title>
    <edition>2</edition>
    <authors>
      <author>
        <firstname>Ian</firstname>
        <lastname>Lloyd</lastname>
        </author>
    </authors>
    <publisher>
      <name>SitePoint</name>
      <year>2008</year>
      <place>Collingwood, VIC, Australia</place>
    </publisher>
    <pages>470</pages>
    <isbn>978-0980455274</isbn>
    <price>17.97</price>
    <currency>US$</currency>
    <comments>
      <comment>1. sem: Chapters 1-7</comment>
    </comments>
  </book>
  
  <book ref="Shu08" mycanon="mdu">
    <title>Learning ActionScript 3.0</title>
    <edition>2</edition>
    <authors>
      <author>
        <firstname>Rich</firstname>
        <lastname>Shupe</lastname>
      </author>
      <author>
        <firstname>Zevan</firstname>
        <lastname>Rosser</lastname>
      </author>
    </authors>
    <publisher>
      <name>O'Reilly</name>
      <year>2008</year>
      <place>Sebastopol, CA, USA</place>
    </publisher>
    <pages>384</pages>
    <isbn>978-0596527877</isbn>
    <price>8.73</price>
    <currency>US$</currency>
    <comments>
      <comment>1. sem: Chapters 1-7</comment>
    </comments>
  </book>
  
  <book ref="Nix09" mycanon="mdu">
    <title>Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript</title>
    <edition>2</edition>
    <authors>
      <author>
        <firstname>Robin</firstname>
        <lastname>Nixon</lastname>
      </author>
    </authors>
    <publisher>
      <name>O'Reilly</name>
      <year>2009</year>
      <place>Sebastopol, CA, USA</place>
    </publisher>
    <pages>528</pages>
    <isbn>978-0596157135</isbn>
    <price>23.99</price>
    <currency>US$</currency>
    <comments>
      <comment>2. sem: Chapters 1-7, 11, 14-17</comment>
      <comment>3. sem: Chapters 8-10</comment>
    </comments>
  </book>

  <book ref="For04" mycanon="mdu">
    <title>SQL in 10 Minutes</title>
    <edition>3</edition>
    <authors>
      <author>
        <firstname>Ben</firstname>
        <lastname>Forta</lastname>
      </author>
    </authors>
    <publisher>
      <name>Sams Publishing</name>
      <year>2004</year>
      <place>Indianapolis, IN, USA</place>
    </publisher>
    <pages>256</pages>
    <isbn>978-0672325670</isbn>
    <price>14.97</price>
    <currency>EU&#8364;</currency>
    <comments>
      <comment>3. sem: Chapters 1-17</comment>
    </comments>
  </book>
  
</booksCanon>

Todays task is writing an xslt program that transforms this file to HTML5 when the file is displayed in a conformant browser. This means writing the xsl file, and referring it from the XML. In the HTML5 you may find it convenient to put the books into table, or possibly creating a display that looks like a bibliography from a report. You choose.

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