Introduction to XML Events

By Micah Dubinko
2005-04-22


Dynamic Documents with Less Script
A number of markup technologies involve attaching behaviors to specific parts of a document. XML Events is a W3C Recommendation that allows declarative attachment of a behavior -- which can be a predefined bundle of actions defined in XML or a more general call to a scripting language -- to a specific element. This article gives an overview of how XML Events came about, what it's useful for, and how it works.

Modern Web sites are highly interactive: Dynamic navigation menus, image rollovers, forms, and even drag and drop are available. A common factor among all such sites is some kind of technique for associating a behavior with a specific part of the document. Unfortunately, current practice is something of a jumble of script-heavy approaches, especially in cases where code needs to work on multiple browsers.



Tutorial Pages:
» Dynamic Documents with Less Script
» Two Kinds of Events
» How Events Work
» From Events to XML Events
» Conclusion
» Resources


First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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