OT - Rev XML terms--tutorials

[Alex Rice]

On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 11:24  PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami wrote:

> I am slowly familiarizing myself with XML as a "must know" subject..
>
> In reading through XML tutorials and the Annotated XML Specification 
> at xml.com, I do not find any reference any where to the word "node" 
> which we see throughout the Rev XML library.  I suspect this is a 
> synonym for some standard XML term...
>
> Question 1: What is an XML node?

Not sure, but I think it is synonymous with an XML "element". But the 
semantics are that a node is part of a tree structure. So it's an XML 
element that maybe has parent node, sibling nodes and children nodes.

> Question 2:  (OT)  for the complete XML newbie...  what is your 
> recommendation to get up to speed... with such a vast number or 
> resources on the web and tons of books... its hard to focus....

I think the SOAP_toolbox.rev tutorial (in your Sample Stacks folder) is 
a good learning resource. It's well written, walks you through an 
interesting real-world use of XML, and the revSoap functions use 
transcript's revXML functions. After seeing how SOAP works, and what 
the XML looks like, then read the source code for SOAP_toolbox.rev as 
well as the revSoap library (it's not a lot of code). Then just 
experiment with the revXML* functions. You will learn a lot faster this 
way than trying to stay awake through the Annotated XML Spec.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com