CompSci497
Advanced XML Programming with XmlPL
Lecture Notes
Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Contents

1. Features of XmlPL
   1. Declarations
      1. package
      2. import
      3. functions
      4. variables
   2. Statements
      1. Loops: While, Foreach and For
      2. Switch and Case
      3. Throw, Try and Catch
      4. Append
      5. Redirect
   3. Types
   4. Expressions
2. Discuss Projects

• id
• version
• library installation requirements

• library id
• version expression
• renaming
• using different versions of the same library

• Arguments
• Pass by value, pass by reference
• constant
• Overloading
• Forward Declaration

• local
• global
• constant

• while and for as usual
• When foreach is more efficient

• integer
• string: efficient binary search

• the exception type
• catch context variable

• output streams
• disabling append
• assignment & increment

• output stream type
• opening output streams: openStringStream et.al.
• append statement redirection

• Basic types: boolean, integer, real, string, exception, prefix, qname
• void
• XML types: node, attribute, comment, document, element, pi, text
• Generics: [], ++, <<

• sequence expressions
• cast
• release
• null