This book is a collection of tutorial notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language - Formatting Objects) himself. Topics include: Introduction to XSL, XSL-FO, and Apache FOP; XSL concepts: Area Model, Inline Stacking and Block Stacking; Page layouts: simple-page-master and page-sequence-master; Page regions: region-body, region-before, region-after, region-start and region-end; Formatting objects: Block-Level and Inline-Level Objects; Adding Graphics from Files and SVG Elements; Managing DPI Resolution; Building Tables of Rows and Columns; Managing Lists of Items and Floating Blocks; Adding External and Internal Hyperlinks; Building Table of Contents; Adding Page Headers and Footers; Managing Fonts: Generic Fonts; Adobe Base-14 Fonts; Embedding Fonts; HTML with SVG and MathML to PDF conversion. Updated in 2024 (Version v2.25) with minor updates. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/XSL-FO.

This XML tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning XML himself. Topics include introduction to XML, DTD (Document Type Definition), XSD (XML Schema Definition), XPath (XML Path Language), XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), XSLT (XSL Transformation), XSL-FO (Formatting Objects), DOM (Document Object Model), and SAX (Simple API for XML); viewing XML with Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE Web browsers; XML tools with Notepad++ and Atom editors; generating and parsing XML with Java, PHP and Python programs; converting XML to and from JSON. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.25) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/XML.

This XML tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning XML himself. Topics include introduction to XML, DTD (Document Type Definition), XSD (XML Schema Definition), XPath (XML Path Language), XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), XSLT (XSL Transformation), XSL-FO (Formatting Objects), DOM (Document Object Model), and SAX (Simple API for XML); viewing XML with Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE Web browsers; XML tools with Notepad++ and Atom editors; generating and parsing XML with Java, PHP and Python programs; converting XML to and from JSON. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.25) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/XML.

This book is a collection of tutorial examples and notes written by the author while he was learning XSD (XML Schema Definition). Topics include: XSD (XML Schema Definition) specification and processors; JAXP (Java API for XML Processing) API; XSD Schema XML DOM/SAX validators; Using Xerces2 Java Parser API; XSD Built-in Datatypes: string, normalizedString, token, integer, long, int, short, byte, gYear, gMonth, gDay, gYearMonth, gMonthDay, duration, yearMonthDuration, dayTimeDuration, atomic, list, union; simpleContent and complexType; unique, key and keyref identity constraints; assert and assertion validation rules; Schema Component Reuse - include, redefine or import. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.23) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/XSD.

This book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning WSDL himself. Topics include introduction to WSDL (Web Services Definition Language); WSDL document structure; 'types', 'interface', 'binding' and 'service' definition elements; differences between style='rpc' and style='document'; using WSDL document with SoapUI; parsing WSDL documents with Python, PHP, Perl, and Java programs. Updated in 2024 (Version v2.22) with Python tutorials. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/WSDL.

This book is a collection of tutorial notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning UML (Unified Modeling Language) himself. Main tutorials include: Introduction to UML; UML Class Diagrams; UML Activity Diagrams; UML Sequence Diagrams; UML State Machine Diagrams; UML Use Case Diagrams; Using LibreOffice and MS Visio to Draw UML Diagram. Updated in 2024 (Version v1.05) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/UML.

This book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning C#. Topics include: Data, Variables and Expressions; Logical Expressions and Conditional Statements; Arrays and Loops; Data Types; Precision of "float", "double", and "decimal"; Performance of "float", "double", and "decimal"; Binary Representation of "float" and "double" Values; Binary Representation of "decimal" Values - Methods; Execution Environment; Common Language Runtime; Intermediate Language Assembler and Disassembler; Private Memory vs. Virtual Memory; Multithreading programs; Async and Await Feature; WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation); MSBuild tool; XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language). Updated in 2020 (Version 3.31) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit http://www.herongyang.com/C-Sharp.