Pozrikidis XML in Scientific Computing

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4665-1228-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten

Reihe: Chapman & Hall/CRC Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Series

While the extensible markup language (XML) has received a great deal of attention in web programming and software engineering, far less attention has been paid to XML in mainstream computational science and engineering. Correcting this imbalance, XML in Scientific Computing introduces XML to scientists and engineers in a way that illustrates the similarities and differences with traditional programming languages and suggests new ways of saving and sharing the results of scientific calculations.

The author discusses XML in the context of scientific computing, demonstrates how the extensible stylesheet language (XSL) can be used to perform various calculations, and explains how to create and navigate through XML documents using traditional languages such as Fortran, C++, and MATLAB®. A suite of computer programs are available on the author’s website.

Zielgruppe

Graduate students and researchers in computer science and computational science/engineering.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pozrikidis, Constantine

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Datenkompression, Dokumentaustauschformate
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Wissenschaft & Technologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Text and Data Formatting

Text formatting with latex and html

Formatting with xml

Usage and usefulness of xml files

Constraints on structure and form

Xml data processing

Relevance of xml in scientific computing

Xml Essential Grammar

Xml tags

Xml elements
Comments
Xml document declaration

Character reference

Language processing instructions

Character data (CDATA)

Xml root element

Xml trees and nodes

Document type definition and schema
Xml namespaces

Xml formatting of computer language instructions

Xml Data Processing with Xsl

Xsl processors

The main program
for-each loops

Extracting data with value-of

Repeated parsing

Extracting element attributes

Conditional blocks

Choose, when, and otherwise

Variables and parameters

Templates
Splitting the code

Summary of xsl elements and functions
Passive processing and cascading stylesheets (css)

Computing with Xml/Xsl

Elementary operations
Templates are user-defined functions and subroutines
Further applications of Xslt templates
Square root of a number

Exponential of a number

Natural logarithm of a number

Recursive sequences

Greatest common divisor of two integers

Student roster

Producing and Importing Xml Data

Fortran

Perl

C++

Matlab

Appendix A: ASCII Code

Appendix B Perl Quick Reference
Appendix C: Summary of Xslt Elements
Appendix D: Functions Called by Xslt Elements

Index

Über Autor(innen)

C. Pozrikidis is a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is well known for his contributions in fluid mechanics and biomechanics, applied mathematics, and scientific computing. He has published numerous research papers and is the author of eight books and the editor of two contributed volumes.