Professional XML

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Title: Professional XML ISBN: 1861003110 Pub Date: January 00 Pages: 1169

Subject Area

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) has emerged in just a few short years as nothing less than a phenomenon in computing. It is a concept elegant in its simplicity driving dramatic changes in the way Internet applications are written.

Book Overview

Professional XML is a broad compendium that investigates and describes how the total XML concept will work for programmers. It's the next edition of the popular XML Applications (Wrox 1998).

This book explains and demonstrates the essential techniques for designing, using, and displaying XML documents. First and foremost, this book covers the fundamentals of XML as they are codified by the W3C.

The focus of Professional XML is on real-world applications that use XML as an enabling technology. It presents good design techniques, and shows how to interface XML-enabled applications with Web applications and database systems. It explores the frontiers of XML and previews some nascent technologies. Whether your requirements are oriented toward data exchange or visual styling, this book will cover all the relevant techniques in the XML community.

Each chapter contains a practical example. As XML is a platform-neutral technology, the examples cover a variety of languages, parsers, and servers. All the techniques are relevant across all the platforms, so you can get valuable insight from the examples even if they are not implemented using your favorite platform.

Who Is This Book For?

Professional XML is for anyone who wants to use XML to build applications and systems. Web site developers can learn techniques to take their sites to the next level of sophistication. Managers, designers, and software architects can learn where XML fits into their systems and how to use it to solve problems in application integration.

Summary of contents:

Chapter   1: Introducing XML
Chapter   2: XML Syntax
Chapter   3: Document Type Definitions
Chapter   4: Data Modeling and XML
Chapter   5: The Document Object Model
Chapter   6: SAX 1.0: The Simple API for XML
Chapter   7: Namespaces and Schemas
Chapter   8: Linking and Querying
Chapter   9: Transforming XML
Chapter  10: XML and Databases
Chapter  11: Server to Server
Chapter  12: eBusiness and XML
Chapter  13: Styling XML
Chapter  14: Wireless Application Protocol
Chapter  15: Case Study 1 ?Data Duality
Chapter  16: Case Study 2 ?XML and Distributed Applications
Chapter  17: Case Study 3 ?Book Catalog Information Service
Chapter  18: Case Study 4 ?SOAP
Appendix A: Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Specification
Appendix B: IE5 XML Document Object Model
Appendix C: SAX 1.0: The Simple API for XML
Appendix D: XML Schemas and Data Types
Appendix E: IE5 XSL Reference
Appendix F: CSS Properties
Appendix G: Installing XT
Appendix H: Support and Errata
Index

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