The use of RSS feeds is a growing trend, and they can be found within many new websites. In ActionScript 3.0: Working with XML, instructor Todd Perkins places strong emphasis on using RSS data for blogs, podcasts, and images. He also demonstrates how to perform common tasks with XML, such as using E4X syntax, loading external data from local and remote locations, saving data, and integrating with popular services like Flickr. Exercise files accompany the course.
Table of contents
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Prerequisites
- Understanding XML
- Visualizing XML
- Exploring an XML file
- Understanding E4X syntax
- Working with XML attributes using E4X
- Using XML methods
- Replacing and deleting elements and attributes
- Accessing elements and attributes using descendant selectors
- Loading XML from an external file
- Working with comments and processing instructions
- Working with an XMLList
- Understanding XMLList syntax
- Working with E4X operators
- Looping through XML data
- Exploring an RSS file
- Building the RSSReader class
- Setting properties for the RSSReader class
- Dispatching events in the RSSReader class
- Understanding PHP
- Installing the MAMP server (Mac)
- Setting file permissions (Mac)
- Installing WAMP (Windows)
- Using PHP to access remote XML
- Saving XML data locally
- Processing saved XML data
- Displaying blog posts
- Formatting dates
- Linking to an online blog
- Viewing the Flickr API
- Viewing the search class
- Understanding XML namespaces
- Accessing namespace qualified data
- Setting a default namespace
- Creating namespace qualified data
- Loading images from flickr.com
- Working with the iTunes Namespace
- Goodbye
Filefactory:
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Rapidshare:
http://rapidshare.com/files/109167288/big.lcac3-xml.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/109170281/big.lcac3-xml.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/109171897/big.lcac3-xml.part3.rar
