The XML Handbook (First Edition) - Softcover

Charles F. Goldfarb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130811521 ISBN 13: 9780130811523

Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr, 1998

Synopsis

"The XML Handbook" is the definitive entry point to XML for Web professionals-content developers, managers, and programmers-but you needn't be a programmer to read it. Although XML, like HTML, is derived from SGML (which was invented by one of the authors), XML has so many more uses than HTML that an XML book must be much more than a markup tutorial.

About this title

About the Author

CHARLES F. GOLDFARB is the inventor of SGML and HyTime, and a technical
PAUL PRESCOD is a computer scientist at the University of Toronto.

From the Back Cover

The definitive XML professional reference.
Leverage your HTML or SGML expertise.
Systematic, detailed and precise.
Co-authored by Charles F. Goldfarb, inventor of SGML.
CD-ROM includes great XML tools!
This thorough, accurate reference will be the foundation of your XML resource library for years to come. Co-authored by the inventor of SGML -- the markup language that "started it all" -- The XML Handbook will help any sophisticated HTML or SGML user move to XML quickly and successfully.
Start by understanding what XML is, why it came to be, and how it differs from SGML and HTML. Learn the fundamentals of XML structure and syntax, including prologs and instances, declarations and DTDs, attributes, entities, hyperlinking, addressing, XSL stylesheets, and XML and RDF metadata.
Learn all you need to know to build "killer" Web sites with XML. Then, discover just how far you can go with XML, by taking an expert tour of five leading-edge applications: Channel Definition Format (CDF), XTEI, CML, MathML and ICE. You'll find a detailed, practical overview of XML editors, parsers and other software, so you can pick the best tools for your applications. The accompanying CD-ROM brings together an amazing set of XML resources:


*SoftQuad's award-winning HoTMetaLPro Web page editor with XML, HTML and SGML support (free trial copy).

*XML Styler from ArborText, a leading XML stylesheet editor (free copy).

*FrameMaker+SGML full-function structured editor with high-end book composition (free trial copy, plus bonus trial of XML version when released).

*Only the best genuine XML freeware parsers, editors, viewers, browsers and more!

*XML Sponsor Showcase: leading vendors present trialware, demos, information, examples and more.

*XML SPECtacular -- complete, browsable, printable copies of every important XML-related standard and spec.

Whether you're an advanced HTML or SGML user, Web developer, or document professional, this is the most useful, comprehensive guide to XML you can find.

Reviews

Goldfarb's book is broken down into five parts: an extensive 60-page introduction to XML, covering what it is and where it is going; examples of what you can do with XML, such as online auction, comparison shopping, and natural-language translation; case studies of commercial development with XML, including projects by Hitachi and the Washington Post; a discussion of specialized tools for working with XML; and, finally, a review of the technology of XMLAsyntax, document type definition, and advanced features. This is the most comprehensive book in the series.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130811521
• ISBN 13: 9780130811523
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688