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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is everywhere. From PCs to tablets to smartphones and even TVs, the web is the most ubiquitous application platform and information medium bar. Its becoming a first class citizen in established operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 8 as well as the primary platform of new operating systems such as Google Chrome OS. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" contains over 100 recipes explaining how to utilize modern features and techniques when building websites or web applications. This book will help you to explore the full power of HTML5 - from number rounding to advanced graphics to real-time data binding. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" starts with the display of text and related data. Then you will be guided through graphs and animated visualizations followed by input and input controls. Data serialization, validation and communication with the server as well as modern frameworks with advanced features like automatic data binding and server communication will also be covered in detail.This book covers a fast track into new libraries and features that are part of HTML5!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Reading XML data from server


Another common data format for REST services is XML. If we have the option to choose a format, there are very small number of cases where JSON is not a better choice. XML is a better option if we need strict message validation using multiple namespaces and schemas, or for some reason, we use Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSTL). The biggest reason of all is the need to work with and support legacy environments that don't use JSON. Most of the modern server-side frameworks have a built-in support for content negotiation, meaning that depending on the client's request, they can serve up the same resource in different formats. In this recipe, we are going to create a simple XML server and use it from the client side.

Getting ready

For the server side, we will use Node.js with restify (http://mcavage.github.io/node-restify/) for the REST services, and xmlbuilder (https://github.com/oozcitak/xmlbuilder-js) for creating simple XML documents. To do this...