Records, Tags and Pipelines

Table of Contents

1. What is Serving XML?

2. Design Goals

3. The Basics

4. The Resources Script

5. Executing a Service

6. Implementing a SAX Pipeline

7. Abstract Elements

8. Abstracting Emitters (XML, PDF, Custom)

9. Abstracting Stream Sinks (File, FTP)

10. Content

11. The Record

12. Record BNF

13. Java Record Interface

14. XML Representation of a Record

15. Flat File Record Mapping

16. Content + XML Filters = Output

17. Flat File Description

18. Record Mapping

19. Flat File + Record Mapping = Content

20. Input/Output

21. More Complicated Flat Files

22. Variant Record Types

23. Repeating Groups

24. More Complicated Record Mappings

25. Grouping by Field Values

26. groupBy Element

27. Generalizing Grouping

28. Group Choice

29. Conclusions

30. Future Directions

31. Debts

32. Q&A