Beginning XML

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Title: Beginning XML ISBN: 1861003412 Pub Date: June 2000 Pages: 800

Description

"Learn about Extensible Markup Language (XML) ?what it is, how it works and how to use it in your data exchange applications ?for the web, e-commerce and more! "z

This book explains and demonstrates XML and related technologies. This is the exciting new way of marking up and manipulating data within your applications. XML is platform independent and versatile, meaning that it is rapidly becoming a major technology. Anywhere that data is exchanged between applications or tiers is a potential application for XML. This book will teach you how to use it in your data exchange applications ?on the web, for e-commerce or in n-tier architectures ?by explaining XML theory, reinforced with plenty of practical examples and real life solutions.

Who is this book for

Beginning XML is for any developer who is interested in learning what XML is, what it can do, and how to use it in their web, e-commerce or data-storage applications. Some knowledge of mark up, scripting and/or object orientated programming languages and system architecture is advantageous, but not essential, as the basics of these techniques are explained as required.

What does the book cover

• XML syntax and writing well formed XML
• Using namespaces in XML
• Adding style with CSS and XSL
• Transforming XML into other formats with XSLT
• XPath and XPointer for locating specific XML data
• XLink for linking XML and non-XML resources
• Manipulating XML documents programmatically with the DOM and SAX
• XML validation using DTDs and Schema
• Incorporating XML into traditional databases and n-tier architectures
• Transmitting XML across a network with XML-RPC

Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: What is XML?
Chapter 2: Well-Formed XML
Chapter 3: XML in the Browser: Cascading Style Sheets
Chapter 4: XSLT and XPath
Chapter 5: XSLT ?The Gory Details
Chapter 6: The Document Object Model (DOM)
Chapter 7: The Simple API for XML (SAX)
Chapter 8: Namespaces
Chapter 9: Basic Valid XML: DTDs
Chapter 10: Valid XML: Schemas
Chapter 11: Advanced Valid XML
Chapter 12: Linking XML
Chapter 13: XML and Databases
Chapter 14: Other Uses for XML
Case Study 1: Lydia's Lugnuts Web Store
Case Study 2: Discussion Group System
Case Study 3: XML for a Business-to-Business Application
Appendix A: The XML Document Object Model
Appendix B: SAX 1.0: The Simple API for XML
Appendix C: ASP Quick Start Tutorial
Appendix D: JavaScript Quick Start Tutorial
Appendix E: Support, Errata, and P2P.Wrox.Com
Appendix F: Useful Web Resources
Appendix G: XML Schema Datatypes

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