Hour 3. Objects and XML

In the previous hour, you were introduced to objects, specifically the xmldom object. This hour will explore objects in greater depth, within the context of XML. It will then examine some of the additional functions of the xmldom object and explore other ways to read and examine the data in an XML file. Reading the data from the XML in more than one way gives you more than one perspective on the data and the mechanisms for reading it.

In this hour, you'll learn the following:

  • What objects are and how they're related to the structure of XML files

  • How to create hierarchical trees that represent HTML files

  • The descriptions of the node and nodelist objects and how they're used to extract data from an XML file

  • How to create an ...

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