Introduction
This book is for anyone interested in learning about using Python to build XML applications. The bulk of the material is suited for programmers interested in using XML as a data interchange format or as a transformable format for web content, but the first half of the book is also useful to those interested in building more document-oriented applications.
Organization
Chapter 1
This chapter offers a broad overview of XML and why Python is particularly well-suited to XML processing.
Chapter 2
This chapter provides a good introduction to XML for newcomers and a refresher for programmers who have some familiarity with the standard.
Chapter 3
This chapter gives a detailed introduction to using Python with the SAX interface, for generating parse events from an XML data stream.
Chapter 4
This chapter provides an introduction to working with DOM, which is the dominant object-oriented, tree-based API to an XML document.
Chapter 5
This chapter discusses using a traversal language to extract portions of documents that meet your application's requirements.
Chapter 6
This chapter details using XSLT to perform transformations on XML documents.
Chapter 7
This chapter discusses validating XML generated from other sources.
Chapter 8
This chapter provides an overview of Python's high-level support for Internet protocols, including tools for building both clients and servers for HTTP.
Chapter 9
This chapter offers discussion of and examples showing how to build and use web services with Python.
Chapter 10
This chapter is an extended example that shows a variety of approaches to applying Python in constructing an XML-based distributed system.
Appendix A
This appendix provides instructions on installing Python and the major XML packages used throughout this book.
Appendix B
This appendix gives a list of definitions from the XML specification and a Python script to extract them from the specification itself.
Appendix C
This appendix offers detailed API information for using the dominant event-based XML interface in Python.
Appendix D
This appendix provides detailed interface documentation for using the standard tree-oriented API for XML from Python.
Appendix E
This appendix gives information on Microsoft's XML libraries available for Python.
Appendix F
This appendix is a summary of the many additional tools that are available for using XML with Python, and a list of starting points for additional information on the Web
This book is for anyone interested in learning about using Python to build XML applications. The bulk of the material is suited for programmers interested in using XML as a data interchange format or as a transformable format for web content, but the first half of the book is also useful to those interested in building more document-oriented applications.
Organization
Chapter 1
This chapter offers a broad overview of XML and why Python is particularly well-suited to XML processing.
Chapter 2
This chapter provides a good introduction to XML for newcomers and a refresher for programmers who have some familiarity with the standard.
Chapter 3
This chapter gives a detailed introduction to using Python with the SAX interface, for generating parse events from an XML data stream.
Chapter 4
This chapter provides an introduction to working with DOM, which is the dominant object-oriented, tree-based API to an XML document.
Chapter 5
This chapter discusses using a traversal language to extract portions of documents that meet your application's requirements.
Chapter 6
This chapter details using XSLT to perform transformations on XML documents.
Chapter 7
This chapter discusses validating XML generated from other sources.
Chapter 8
This chapter provides an overview of Python's high-level support for Internet protocols, including tools for building both clients and servers for HTTP.
Chapter 9
This chapter offers discussion of and examples showing how to build and use web services with Python.
Chapter 10
This chapter is an extended example that shows a variety of approaches to applying Python in constructing an XML-based distributed system.
Appendix A
This appendix provides instructions on installing Python and the major XML packages used throughout this book.
Appendix B
This appendix gives a list of definitions from the XML specification and a Python script to extract them from the specification itself.
Appendix C
This appendix offers detailed API information for using the dominant event-based XML interface in Python.
Appendix D
This appendix provides detailed interface documentation for using the standard tree-oriented API for XML from Python.
Appendix E
This appendix gives information on Microsoft's XML libraries available for Python.
Appendix F
This appendix is a summary of the many additional tools that are available for using XML with Python, and a list of starting points for additional information on the Web
