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Chapter 2 Structured Web Documentsin XML
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Chapter 2
A Semantic Web Primer An HTML Example
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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Both use tags
● Tags may be nested (tags within tags)
● Human users can read and interpret both
HTML and XML representations quite easily
… But how about machines?
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Chapter 2
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Interpretation of HTML Documents
An intelligent agent trying to retrieve the names
of the authors of the book
● Authors’ names could appear immediately
after the title
● or immediately after the word by
● Are there two authors?
● Or just one, called “V. Marek and M.
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HTML documents do not contain structural
information: pieces of the document and their
relationships.
XML more easily accessible to machines because
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Every piece of information is described.
Relations are also defined through the nesting structure.
E.g., the tags appear within the tags, so
they describe properties of the particular book.
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A machine processing the XML document
would be able to deduce that
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XML allows the definition of constraints on
values
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the author element refers to the enclosing book
element
rather than by proximity considerations
E.g. a year must be a number of four digits
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The HTML representation provides more
than the XML representation:
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Τhe main use of an HTML document is to
display information: it must define formatting
XML: separation of content from display
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The formatting of the document is also described
same information can be displayed in different
ways
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In HTML
Relationship force-mass
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In both HTML docs same tags
In XML completely different
HTML tags define display: color, lists …
XML tags not fixed: user definable tags
XML meta markup language: language for
defining markup languages
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Web applications must agree on common
vocabularies to communicate and collaborate
Communities and business sectors are
defining their specialized vocabularies
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mathematics (MathML)
bioinformatics (BSML)
human resources (HRML)
…
Chapter 2
A Semantic Web Primer Lecture Outline
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Introduction
Detailed Description of XML
Structuring
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b)
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DTDs
XML Schema
Namespaces
Accessing, querying XML documents: XPath
Transformations: XSLT
Chapter 2
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An XML document consists of
● a prolog
● a number of elements
● an optional epilog (not discussed)
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Chapter 2
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The prolog consists of
● an XML declaration and
● an optional reference to external structuring
documents
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The “things” the XML document talks about
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E.g. books, authors, publishers
An element consists of:
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an opening tag
the content
a closing tag
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Tag names can be chosen almost freely.
The first character must be a letter, an
underscore, or a colon
No name may begin with the string “xml” in
any combination of cases
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E.g. “Xml”, “xML”
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Content may be text, or other elements, or nothing
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If there is no content, then the element is called
empty; it is abbreviated as follows:
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Chapter 2
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Attributes can be replaced by elements
When to use elements and when attributes
is a matter of taste
But attributes cannot be nested
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Comments
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Processing Instructions (PIs)
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A piece of text that is to be ignored by parser
Define procedural attachments
Chapter 2
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Syntactically correct documents
Some syntactic rules:
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Only one outermost element (called root element)
Each element contains an opening and a
corresponding closing tag
Tags may not overlap
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Lee Hong
Where is your draft?
Grigoris, where is the draft of the paper you promised me
last week?
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Chapter 2
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An Example (2)
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Chapter 2
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The tree representation of an XML document
is an ordered labeled tree:
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There is exactly one root
There are no cycles
Each non-root node has exactly one parent
Each node has a label.
The order of elements is important
… but the order of attributes is not important
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A Semantic Web Primer Lecture Outline
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Introduction
Detailed Description of XML
Structuring
a)
b)
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DTDs
XML Schema
Namespaces
Accessing, querying XML documents: XPath
Transformations: XSLT
Chapter 2
A Semantic Web Primer Structuring XML Documents
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Define all the element and attribute names
that may be used
Define the structure
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what values an attribute may take
which elements may or must occur within other
elements, etc.
If such structuring information exists, the
document can be validated
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An XML document is valid if
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There are two ways of defining the structure
of XML documents:
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it is well-formed
respects the structuring information it uses
DTDs (the older and more restricted way)
XML Schema (offers extended possibilities)
Chapter 2
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DTD for above element (and all lecturer elements):
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Chapter 2
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The element types lecturer, name, and phone may
be used in the document
A lecturer element contains a name element and a
phone element, in that order (sequence)
A name element and a phone element may have
any content
In DTDs, #PCDATA is the only atomic type for
elements
Chapter 2
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Definitions
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We express that a lecturer element contains
either a name element or a phone element as
follows:
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A lecturer element contains a name element
and a phone element in any order.
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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The item element type is defined to be
empty
+ (after item) is a cardinality operator:
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?: appears zero times or once
*: appears zero or more times
+: appears one or more times
No cardinality operator means exactly once
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In addition to defining elements, we define
attributes
This is done in an attribute list containing:
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Name of the element type to which the list
applies
A list of triplets of attribute name, attribute type,
and value type
Attribute name: A name that may be used in
an XML document using a DTD
Chapter 2
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Similar to predefined data types, but limited selection
The most important types are
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CDATA, a string (sequence of characters)
ID, a name that is unique across the entire XML document
IDREF, a reference to another element with an ID attribute
carrying the same value as the IDREF attribute
IDREFS, a series of IDREFs
(v1| . . . |vn), an enumeration of all possible values
Limitations: no dates, number ranges etc.
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#REQUIRED
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#IMPLIED
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Every element must have this attribute
"value"
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The appearance of the attribute is optional
#FIXED "value"
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Attribute must appear in every occurrence of the element
type in the XML document
This specifies the default value for the attribute
Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
A Semantic Web Primer An XML Document Respecting the DTD
Bob Marley
Bridget Jones
Mary Poppins
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An XML entity can play the role of
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a placeholder for repeatable characters
a section of external data
a part of a declaration for elements
We can use the entity reference &thisyear
instead of the value " 2007 "
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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A head element contains (in that order):
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In from, to, and cc elements
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a from element
at least one to element
zero or more cc elements
a subject element
the name attribute is not required
the address attribute is always required
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A body element contains
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The encoding attribute of an attachment
element must have either the value “mime”
or “binhex”
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a text element
possibly followed by a number of attachment
elements
“mime” is the default value
Chapter 2
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A DTD can be interpreted as an Extended
Backus-Naur Form (EBNF)
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Recursive definitions possible in DTDs
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is equivalent to email ::= head body
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A Semantic Web Primer Lecture Outline
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Introduction
Detailed Description of XML
Structuring
a)
b)
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DTDs
XML Schema
Namespaces
Accessing, querying XML documents: XPath
Transformations: XSLT
Chapter 2
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Significantly richer language for defining the
structure of XML documents
Tts syntax is based on XML itself
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Reuse and refinement of schemas
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not necessary to write separate tools
Expand or delete already existent schemas
Sophisticated set of data types, compared to
DTDs (which only supports strings)
Chapter 2
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An XML schema is an element with an
opening tag like
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Element and attribute types using data types
Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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Already existing data types can be extended by
new elements or attributes. Example:
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Chapter 2
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A hierarchical relationship exists between
the original and the extended type
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Instances of the extended type are also instances
of the original type
They may contain additional information, but
neither less information, nor information of the
wrong type
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An existing data type may be restricted by adding
constraints on certain values
Restriction is not the opposite from extension
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The following hierarchical relationship still holds:
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Restriction is not achieved by deleting elements or
attributes
Instances of the restricted type are also instances of the
original type
They satisfy at least the constraints of the original type
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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Similar for bodyType
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Introduction
Detailed Description of XML
Structuring
a)
b)
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DTDs
XML Schema
Namespaces
Accessing, querying XML documents: XPath
Transformations: XSLT
Chapter 2
A Semantic Web Primer Namespaces
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An XML document may use more than one
DTD or schema
Since each structuring document was
developed independently, name clashes may
appear
The solution is to use a different prefix for
each DTD or schema
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prefix:name
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Chapter 2
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Namespaces are declared within an element
and can be used in that element and any of
its children (elements and attributes)
A namespace declaration has the form:
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xmlns:prefix="location"
location is the address of the DTD or schema
If a prefix is not specified: xmlns="location"
then the location is used by default
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Introduction
Detailed Description of XML
Structuring
a)
b)
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DTDs
XML Schema
Namespaces
Accessing, querying XML documents: XPath
Transformations: XSLT
Chapter 2
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Documents
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In relational databases, parts of a database
can be selected and retrieved using SQL
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The central concept of XML query
languages is a path expression
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Same necessary for XML documents
Query languages: XQuery, XQL, XML-QL
Specifies how a node or a set of nodes, in the
tree representation of the XML document can be
reached
Chapter 2
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XPath is core for XML query languages
Language for addressing parts of an XML
document.
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It operates on the tree data model of XML
It has a non-XML syntax
Chapter 2
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Absolute (starting at the root of the tree)
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Syntactically they begin with the symbol /
It refers to the root of the document (situated one
level above the root element of the document)
Relative to a context node
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
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Address all author elements
/library/author
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Addresses all author elements that are
children of the library element node, which
resides immediately below the root
/t1/.../tn, where each ti+1 is a child node of
ti, is a path through the tree representation
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XPath (2)
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Address all author elements
//author
Here // says that we should consider all
elements in the document and check
whether they are of type author
This path expression addresses all author
elements anywhere in the document
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XPath (3)
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Address the location attribute nodes within
library element nodes
/library/@location
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The symbol @ is used to denote attribute
nodes
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XPath (4)
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Address all title attribute nodes within
book elements anywhere in the document,
which have the value “Artificial Intelligence”
//book/@title="Artificial Intelligence"
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XPath (5)
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Address all books with title “Artificial Intelligence”
/book[@title="Artificial Intelligence"]
Test within square brackets: a filter expression
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Difference with query 4.
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It restricts the set of addressed nodes.
Query 5 addresses book elements, the title of which
satisfies a certain condition.
Query 4 collects title attribute nodes of book elements
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Address the first author element node in the XML
document
//author[1]
Address the last book element within the first
author element node in the document
//author[1]/book[last()]
Address all book element nodes without a title
attribute
//book[not @title]
Chapter 2
A Semantic Web Primer General Form of Path Expressions
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A path expression consists of a series of
steps, separated by slashes
A step consists of
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An axis specifier,
A node test, and
An optional predicate
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An axis specifier determines the tree
relationship between the nodes to be
addressed and the context node
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E.g. parent, ancestor, child (the default), sibling,
attribute node
// is such an axis specifier: descendant or self
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A node test specifies which nodes to
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The most common node tests are element
names
E.g., * addresses all element nodes
comment() addresses all comment nodes
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Predicates (or filter expressions) are
optional and are used to refine the set of
addressed nodes
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XPath has a more complicated full syntax.
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E.g., the expression [1] selects the first node
[position()=last()] selects the last node
[position() mod 2 =0] selects the even nodes
We have only presented the abbreviated syntax
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Detailed Description of XML
Structuring
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b)
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DTDs
XML Schema
Namespaces
Accessing, querying XML documents: XPath
Transformations: XSLT
Chapter 2
A Semantic Web Primer Displaying XML Documents
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University of Bremen
ga@tzi.de
may be displayed in different ways:
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University of Bremen
University of Bremen
ga@tzi.de
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Style sheets can be written in various
languages
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XSL includes
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E.g. CSS2 (cascading style sheets level 2)
XSL (extensible stylesheet language)
a transformation language (XSLT)
a formatting language
Both are XML applications
Chapter 2
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XSLT specifies rules with which an input XML
document is transformed to
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another XML document
an HTML document
plain text
The output document may use the same DTD or
schema, or a completely different vocabulary
XSLT can be used independently of the formatting
language
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Move data and metadata from one XML
representation to another
XSLT is chosen when applications that use different
DTDs or schemas need to communicate
XSLT can be used for machine processing of
content without any regard to displaying the
information for people to read.
In the following we use XSLT only to display XML
documents
Chapter 2
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An author
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Chapter 2
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An author
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University of Bremen
ga@tzi.de 93 Chapter 2 A Semantic Web Primer Observations About XSLT ● XSLT documents are XML documents – ● The XSLT document defines a template – ● In this case an HTML document, with some placeholders for content to be inserted xsl:value-of retrieves the value of an element and copies it into the output document – 94 XSLT resides on top of XML It places some content into the template Chapter 2 A Semantic Web Primer A TemplateAn author
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... 95 Chapter 2 A Semantic Web Primer Auxiliary Templates ● ● ● 96 We have an XML document with details of several authors It is a waste of effort to treat each author element separately In such cases, a special template is defined for author elements, which is used by the main template Chapter 2 A Semantic Web Primer Example of an Auxiliary Template
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University of Bremen
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ga@tzi.de 93 Chapter 2 A Semantic Web Primer Observations About XSLT ● XSLT documents are XML documents – ● The XSLT document defines a template – ● In this case an HTML document, with some placeholders for content to be inserted xsl:value-of retrieves the value of an element and copies it into the output document – 94 XSLT resides on top of XML It places some content into the template Chapter 2 A Semantic Web Primer A Template
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... 95 Chapter 2 A Semantic Web Primer Auxiliary Templates ● ● ● 96 We have an XML document with details of several authors It is a waste of effort to treat each author element separately In such cases, a special template is defined for author elements, which is used by the main template Chapter 2 A Semantic Web Primer Example of an Auxiliary Template
Email:
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Affiliation: Griffith UniversityEmail: david@gu.edu.net
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xsl:apply-templates element causes all children of
the context node to be matched against the selected
path expression
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E.g., if the current template applies to /, then the element
xsl:apply-templates applies to the root element
I.e. the authors element (/ is located above the root
element)
If the current context node is the authors element, then the
element xsl:apply-templates select="author" causes the
template for the author elements to be applied to all
author children of the authors element
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It is good practice to define a template for
each element type in the document
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Even if no specific processing is applied to
certain elements, the xsl:apply-templates
element should be used
E.g. authors
In this way, we work from the root to the
leaves of the tree, and all templates are
applied
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Suppose we wish to transform to itself the element:
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