Textual content of a XML element
As shown before, the content of an XML element consists of text or of child elements or of a mixture of both. However, the text in an element may contain…
Example scenario
In the entire book the example scenario of the "Hochwaldklinik.xml" file can be found. It serves as a basis for the numerous explanations of the…
Core data
The core data are stored in the XML file Hochwaldklinik.xml. In this example scenario, a hospital (the "Hochwaldklinik") is described by the name of the…
Patient data
The second large field of the example scenario includes the filing of patient information (data type Patient_T). At the highest level the two classes…
Services
The central entity in the data stock of the patients reflects the individual services. The image below shows schematically the structure with the following outlined types of…
Structuring of a surgery
Analogously, the service of a surgery is composed of a (possibly – in the case of an immediate abort – empty) list of individual processes. The image…
Images of the structuring of the personnel
Structuring of volunteers:
Structuring of the permanent personnel:
The category of the core data also contains the directory of all consumables…
Unicode
From the very beginning, XML was created to be used globally. Therefore, it also refers to appropriate standards, such as Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 allowing the encoding of all…
Namespaces
As already explained, with XML a wide variety of vocabularies can be defined. Of course, these vocabularies should be combinable, for example, in order to be able to also use XHTML…
The xml namespace
XML 1.0 specifies two special attributes, xml:lang and xml:space, from the http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace namespace. For this namespace the xml prefix is always…