What Is JavaScript?
JavaScript (which is not actually related to Java) is the most popular scripting language today. Using JavaScript, you can embed programs in Web pages and run those programs. In the next chapter, we'll see how to use those programs to retrieve the contents of XML elements and attributes, and even how to search XML documents for data.
Internet Explorer provides strong XML support with XML islands that let you embed XML directly in HTML pages, by letting you read XML documents directly. In this chapter, we'll learn how to use JavaScript; in the next chapter, we'll use it to parse XML documents. In Chapter 8, "XML and Data Binding," we'll use JavaScript to load XML documents into database record sets that have a great deal of ...
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