XML Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟XML File Browsers

∟Using Mozilla Firefox as an XML Browser

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use Mozilla Firefox as an XML file browser. Firefox displays all elements in an XML file in a tree structure.

Mozilla Firefox can also be used as an XML browser. Run Firefox, and open dictionary.xml created in the previous chapter with the File menu, you will see the following in the Firefox window:

Firefox behave very similar to IE when displaying XML files:

• Different colors are used for comments, element tags and contents, and attribute names and values.
• Elements that have nested child elements are prefixed with "-" or "+".
• "-" or "+" can be clicked to expand or collapse the sub-elements of a nested element.
• White spaces, and element ending tags are re-organized.
• XML entities are substituted by the characters they are representing.
• Characters in the CDATA section are preserved as they are.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

 XML File Syntax

►XML File Browsers

 Using Google Chrome as an XML Browser

 Using Google Chrome as an XML Syntax Checker

►Using Mozilla Firefox as an XML Browser

 Using Mozilla Firefox as an XML Syntax Checker

 Using Apple Safari as an XML Browser

 Using Apple Safari as an XML Syntax Checker

 Using Microsoft Edge as an XML Browser

 Using Microsoft Edge as an XML Syntax Checker

 Using Internet Explorer as an XML Browser

 Using Internet Explorer as an XML Syntax Checker

 XML Spy and Other XML Browsers

 XML-JSON Document Conversion

 DOM (Document Object Model) Programming Interface

 SAX (Simple API for XML) Programming Interface

 DTD (Document Type Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of DTD Statements

 Validating an XML Document against the Specified DTD Document Type

 XSD (XML Schema Definition) Introduction

 Syntaxes of XSD Statements

 Validating XML Documents Against Specified XML Schemas

 XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language) Introduction

 Java Implementation of XSLT

 XSLT (XSL Transformations) Introduction

 XPath (XML Path) Language

 XSLT Elements as Programming Statements

 Control and Generate XML Element in the Result

 PHP Extensions for XML Manipulation

 Processing XML with Python Scripts

 XML Notepad - XML Editor

 XML Tools Plugin for Notepad++

 XML Plugin Packages for Atom Editor

 XML 1.1 Changes and Parsing Examples

 Archived Tutorials

 References

 Full Version in PDF/EPUB

Using Mozilla Firefox as an XML Browser - Updated in 2023, by Herong Yang