| Foundation XML for Flash Contributor(s): Jacobs, Sas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1590595432 ISBN-13: 9781590595435 Publisher: Apress OUR PRICE: $35.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: XML is a completely platform agnostic data medium. Flash is able to make use of XML data, which is very useful when you are creating Rich Internet Applications -- it allows you to populate Flash web interfaces with data from pretty much any source that supports XML as a data medium, be it databases, raw XML files, or more excitingly, .Net applications, web services, and even Microsoft Office applications such as Excel and Word! In this book, Sas Jacobs first introduces XML itselfwhat it is, its syntax, its associated technologies (such as CSS and XSLT, ) and how to get XML out of your applications in a format Flash can use. Then she shows how to use the XML object to stream XML data into Flash, and how to use the XMLConnector component and XML Sockets to build advanced Flash/XML applications. Numerous example applications are built throughout the book, including an MP3 player, XML photo gallery, an Excel-driven web catalog, Access and Word-driven content management systems, and an XML-driven chat application. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Web - Web Programming - Computers | Desktop Applications - Design & Graphics - Computers | Programming Languages - Xml |
| Dewey: 006.74 |
| Series: Foundation |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 7.56" W x 8.96" (1.72 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If you work with Flash for anything other than creating animations, sooner or later you are going to run smack into XML. But the fact that you have this book in your hands right now means you already know this. XML has been touted as the great equalizer, allowing seamless data transfer across platforms and programs. According to some, XML was going to save the world. While the world still needs some work, XML has gone a long way to improve communications between all kinds of systems. Recognizing this some years ago, Macromedia put XML support into Flash 5, and with each version, this feature has seen remarkable improvements. If you are doing any kind of Flash application development, or even just building a dynamic website in Flash, you need to know about XML. Why? Because if you are moving data around and you don't know about XML, I can guarantee that you are wasting a lot of time and energy dealing with that data. Another reason is that, if it hasn't already happened, someday you're going to be asked to do a project that uses XML, or apply for a job where they ask you about it. |