Chapter 9. Other Applications for XML (SOAP)

In this chapter

  • Browser Detection

  • Media

  • Mobile Phones

  • Adapting a Servlet for Wireless Devices

  • The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

  • Formatting Objects

  • Where We Go from Here

  • Getting More Information

  • The Last Word

At this point, we have built a complete e-commerce–capable Web site using XML. Everything we've done, however, could have been done using existing technologies and languages. In this chapter, we're going to look at other uses for XML, which utilize the power of such a flexible environment.

For instance, we're going to start by looking at displaying content using a different style sheet depending on how the user is accessing the site, which enables us to create a special version of our pages for ...

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