XML Schema Companion, The - Softcover

Bradley, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321136179 ISBN 13: 9780321136176

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003

Synopsis

Get powerful results with XML Schema-fast! The XML Schema Companion brings you up to speed on XML Schema with clarity, thoroughness, and precision. Itis the perfect introduction and reference for every content specialist, architect, and developer...including anyone working with the new schema support in Microsoft Office 2003. As in his best-selling The XML Companion and The XSL Companion, Neil Bradley carefully organizes this book to fully illuminate the most crucial concepts first. You'll begin by mastering the construction of document models. Next, you'll learn how to define data types that can serve as reusable building blocks for your documents. Then you'll be ready to master the powerful XML Schema pattern language and inheritance techniques.The XML Schema Companion: *Carefully explains the essential principles of document modeling with XML Schema *Explains how to read and interpret any XML Schema definition *Uses practical examples to illuminate schema definition and validation *Shows how to resolve schema ambiguities *Introduces XML Schema data types simply and precisely *Demonstrates how to include external components in schema-conformant documents *Presents detailed, practical coverage of namespaces and namespace switching *Introduces advanced inheritance techniques for building more flexible, powerful document models *Contains an entire chapter of tips for more effective document modeling *Includes a complete DTD for XML Schema documents and shows how to create DTD-compatible schemas

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About the Author

NEIL BRADLEY is an XML consultant with almost 20 years' practical experience using markup languages. He is an experienced trainer, a regular speaker at industry events, and a contributor to publications such as XML Journal and interChange, the newsletter of the International SGML/XML Users' Group. He is the author of three books on XML and SGML topics published by Addison-Wesley: The XML Companion, Third Edition (2002), The XSL Companion, Second Edition (2002), and The Concise SGML Companion (1997).

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Get powerful results with XML Schema&;fast!

The XML Schema Companion brings you up to speed on XML Schema with clarity, thoroughness, and precision. Itis the perfect introduction and reference for every content specialist, architect, and developer...including anyone working with the new schema support in Microsoft Office 2003.

As in his best-selling The XML Companion and The XSL Companion, Neil Bradley carefully organizes this book to fully illuminate the most crucial concepts first. You'll begin by mastering the construction of document models. Next, you'll learn how to define data types that can serve as reusable building blocks for your documents. Then you'll be ready to master the powerful XML Schema pattern language and inheritance techniques. The XML Schema Companion:

• Carefully explains the essential principles of document modeling with XML Schema
• Explains how to read and interpret any XML Schema definition
• Uses practical examples to illuminate schema definition and validation
• Shows how to resolve schema ambiguities
• Introduces XML Schema data types simply and precisely
• Demonstrates how to include external components in schema-conformant documents
• Presents detailed, practical coverage of namespaces and namespace switching
• Introduces advanced inheritance techniques for building more flexible, powerful document models
• Contains an entire chapter of tips for more effective document modeling
• Includes a complete DTD for XML Schema documents and shows how to create DTD-compatible schemas

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Preface

XML Schemas

The XML Schema Standard is a powerful eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document modeling technology that was released in 2001 by the World Wide Web Consortium and aims to replace the Document Type Definition (DTD) feature of the core XML standard. The XML Schema standard performs the same role and is fully backward compatible in terms of the modeling tools at its disposal, but also includes many additional features.

This book

The XML Schema Companion serves the programmer, analyst, or consultant involved in the modeling of XML documents. It provides a concise, compact yet thorough examination of every feature of the XML Schema standard. It also covers document modeling techniques in general, to assist those who need to amend or create new document models.

This book assumes knowledge of the XML standard in general but does not assume an understanding of the DTD language or any other document modeling language. In addition, it does not require any prior knowledge of namespaces and XPath expressions (they are both exploited to support features of the XML Schema language).

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321136179
• ISBN 13: 9780321136176
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324