Random Newbie questions

I'm intestred in Webservies and dynmaic content so I thought it was time I buckled down and learned XML , right I'm trying to figure out the basics, and not bothering with dynamic DB stuff,

seems to me after all reading a done, if seems a static page goes like this:
store Data in a XML file(preferablity vailidated)
extract the data with XSLT
use XHTML for layout
format the page with CSS

well that not quite in order but..


what should I use for a vaildator?

I've installed MSXML, but can figure if you can use it with out it being implenented in a editor, I can find a XML editor worth javabeans that I can aford


so I'll be using Ultraedit and I need a parser that has a command line

I looked in the documentaion and found nothing, maybe you can fill me in ?

thanks

Well, here's a free editor that's worth beans. http://www.daveswebsite.com/product...2.0/index.shtml

If you're going to be using Java for the XSL transformation, then I'd suggest you look at www.netbeans.org It's a good IDE that has a nice XML editor/validator/transformer built in.

I don't know if i get your problem right, if you either want a nice IDE for editing XML files or just want to know a way how a to validate your xml files programmaticly.

The best IDE i know of is XML Spy http://www.xmlspy.com/. Once you get the interface, it's really handy and can handle all kind of xml (xslt, xql, even soap queries).

If you want to validate your own xml structure, than you should go on reading XSD - Schema, it's the successor of DTDs and can handle content stuff (e.g. attribute value > 5 are not allowed) - meaning you write your XML structure and content definition in XML. With MSXML it isn't hard to write a console validating parser.

But perhaps i just got your problem wrong ;-)

Thanks for the replies

I forgot about netbeans


xmlspy seems good but the only version I could aford is the striped down one.

my thing is I grsap concepts well but syntax is a another deal, alot of time is wasted looking up the "keystrokes" on what I want to do.

like most CSS editors I've found are inflexable in that they have a dialog interface

but they one I do lile Topstyle

cause you type the element you want to style manualy(flexiable) then there is the panel with all the possiable styles and you input the values into the panel and it inturns properly inserts in in the code, elimiating possiable typos, important to a guy that has spent sometimes hours trying to locate a "bug" to find it was nothing more than a typo.


yes I think I want XML and Java to be my platform

I've brainwashed myself to think in objects

I played around with php oo for a awhile , ran into a problem need static members

and last I herd everytime a object was loaded in a session it contructer was re-ran to set it's values.

tried to lean OO perl, but I swear all the tutorials I found were by people that don't know jack OOP, cause they made classes, but never made an object(instance) and access the meathods directly(i.e. class::meathod() )

isn't that a fancy way of saying GOTO SUB?




anyone subscribe to the O'Reilly safari bookself?

any suggestion on reading I know I need a book on servelts and jsp, but there a serveral any suggestions would be helpfull.