Publishing with XML - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Sharing HTML Codes with JavaScript Files

∟What Is JavaScript?

This section provides you some basics of JavaScript language.

JavaScript is simple scripting language that can be used inside Web pages to generate dynamic page contents. From a language syntax point of view, JavaScript is very similar to Java. JavaSctipt supports the following basic features:

JavaScript statements can be included in Web pages using the "script" element as shown in the following example: 

<p>Your random number is: 
<script type="text/javascript">
number = Math.round((Math.random()*9)+1);
document.write(number);
</script>
</p>

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Ideas on Publishing Books using XML

 Overview of hyPub - A Simple XML Publishing Tool

 Writing Book Contents in XHTML Source Files

 Transforming Book Source Files with XSL Technology

 Designing Web Page Layouts with Tables

 Controlling Web Page Appearance with CSS

►Sharing HTML Codes with JavaScript Files

►What Is JavaScript?

 How JavaScript Is Used in hyPub?

 Generating Web Pages with hyPub

 Formatting Printable Documents with XSL-FO

 Generating PDF Documents with hyPub

 Areas of Future Improvements

 References

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