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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

Serialization of XML document at the client side


JSON is extremely simple to use than JavaScript; there are lot of REST services already out there that use XML. In this recipe we are going to create a simple form that will construct an XML document using the DOM API for XML.

How to do it...

Let's start:

  1. First we create a simple HTML document:

    <!doctype html>
    <html>
      <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>Create XML from JavaScript objects</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <output id="log"> </output>
  2. After this we are going to include a KML document inside the text, in a real life application this will probably get loaded by AJAX, but for simplicity we will add the data directly:

      <kml id="test" xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
        <Document>
          <name>Red Pyramid</name>
          <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
          <Style id="style1">
            <IconStyle>
          ...