33501XML: Soapbox: Magic bullet or dud?http://www-106.ibm.com/developerWorks/xml/library/x-soapbx2?open&l=766,t=gr,p=bulletIn this Soapbox opinion piece, Brett McLaughlin casts a critical eye on the Simple Object Access Protocol, assessing the value this much-discussed new technology can provide developers and demonstrating its foundation in a mixture of the old RPC (remote procedure calls) technology and in XML. Brett examines RPC, XML-RPC, RMI, and SOAP in detail, comparing and contrasting the use of each, and discusses whether SOAP makes sense. This article also includes sample code for a SOAP envelope.XML > Tips and Tutorials > MiscellaneousOct 17, 2006
A ping helps you to inform other services which collect information about your feeds and list them into their database. These services have a list containing recently updated websites.
Also, you must be aware of the fact that pinging won't deliver direct traffic to your website. It will simply generate indirect traffic to your pages by sending requests to other services which are using feeds for content.
This tutorial assumes basic knowledge of XML. For example, you should know what elements, attributes, and values are. If you aren't familiar with these, take the "Introduction to XML" tutorial, listed in Resources.
In this Soapbox opinion piece, Brett McLaughlin casts a critical eye on the Simple Object Access Protocol, assessing the value this much-discussed new technology can provide developers and demonstrating its foundation in a mixture of the old RPC (remote procedure calls) technology and in XML. Brett examines RPC, XML-RPC, RMI, and SOAP in detail, comparing and contrasting the use of each, and discusses whether SOAP makes sense. This article also includes sample code for a SOAP envelope.
In this chapter, we will build on Chapters 1 and 2 to provide you with enough information to start building useful XSLT stylesheets. I will introduce a number of the elements that make up the language, providing examples of their use. We will also look at a few of the functions built into the language and see how XSLT manages namespaces, whitespace and some other important issues.
Inline elements are XHTML elements that can be used together with character data to form lines of paragraph blocks. Here are some basic rules about inline elements:
Inline elements are usually used as sub-elements of block elements.
Some inline elements have empty contents.
Some inline elements have mixed contents with text and other inline elements.
Some inline elements are used to specify style properties which could be achieved by CSS technologies.
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