XML in Scientific Computing - Constantine Pozrikidis

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Résumé :
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(R). A suite of computer programs are available on the author's website.

Sommaire:
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

The book is written in a clear and readable style. It can be recommended to anybody interested in scientific computing in the context of combining classical environments, like MATLAB(R), with the XML framework. -Jaroslav Pokorny, Zentralblatt MATH 1263 Modern computational science and engineering address realistic multi-physics applications with complex data-driven parametric input. XML in Scientific Computing is the first of its kind to discuss the seamless integration of data and code. The text is written by one of the most authoritative researchers in computational science. -Professor George M. Karniadakis, Brown University