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Pro PHP XML and Web Services

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  1. Robert Richards
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  • Author Rob Richards is a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase and is considered a leading expert on the topic in the PHP community

  • Covers the most leading-edge branch of PHP - currently 5.1

  • Practical, real-world examples with the Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, and Google web services APIs

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction to XML and Web Services

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 1-14

  3. XML Structure

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 15-43

  4. Validation

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 45-121

  5. XPath, XPointer, XInclude, and the Future

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 123-161

  6. PHP and XML

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 163-179

  7. Document Object Model (DOM)

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 181-238

  8. SimpleXML

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 239-268

  9. Simple API for XML (SAX)

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 269-310

  10. XMLReader

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 311-340

  11. Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 341-408

  12. Effective and Efficient Processing

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 409-439

  13. XML Security

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 441-489

  14. PEAR and XML

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 491-519

  15. Content Syndication: RSS and Atom

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 521-566

  16. Web Distributed Data Exchange (WDDX)

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 567-593

  17. XML-RPC

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 595-631

  18. Representational State Transfer (REST)

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 633-672

  19. SOAP

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 673-750

  20. Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)

    • Robert Richards
    Pages 751-780
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About this book

Pro PHP XML and Web Services is the authoritative guide to using the XML features of PHP 5 and PHP 6. No other book covers XML and Web Services in PHP as deeply as this title. The first four chapters introduce the core concepts of XML required for proficiency, and will bring you up to speed on the terminology and key concepts you need to proceed with the rest of the book. Next, the book explores utilizing XML and Web Services with PHP5. Topics include DOM, SimpleXML, SAX, xmlReader, XSLT, RDF, RSS, WDDX, XML-RPC, REST, SOAP, and UDDI.

Author Robert Richards, a major contributor to the PHP XML codebase, is a leading expert in the PHP community. In this book, Richards covers all topics in depth, blending theory with practical examples. You'll find case studies for the most popular web services like Amazon, Google, eBay, and Yahoo. The book also covers XML capabilities, demonstrated through informative examples, in the PEAR libraries.

About the author

Robert Richards, an independent contractor, has worked in various fields including medical information, telecommunications, media and e-learning. Having been exposed to XML since its inception and used it for various projects during his career, his most extensive work with the technology was within the e-learning space. He helped created a proprietary XML based application server which used XML for data publishing, defining application business logic as well as data querying. He was also the lead engineer for the company?'s involvement in SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model), used for Web-based learning, established by the U.S. Department of Defense through its Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative. After becoming the latest casualty of the dot-com implosion in 2001, Rob had his first taste of PHP and began contributing code to the domxml extension in 2002. Since then, he has become one of the authors of the DOM extension for PHP 5, contributes to the other XML based extensions and has authored the xmlReader, for PHP 5, and xmlwriter, for PHP 4.3+, extensions. Also on occasion, he contributes bug fixes to the libxml2 project found during the development of these extensions.

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