Inside Xml - Softcover

Holzner, Steven

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735710201 ISBN 13: 9780735710207

Publisher: New Riders Pub, 2000

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The XML explosion hardly needs any introduction-it's everywhere and there just seems to be no end to what can be done with XML. While writing to the W3C standards, and keeping up with the pace for corporate implementation, you, the programmer or web developer, will need a comprehensive guide to get you started and show you what XML and its related technologies can do. A thorough guide is imperative to success because you will need to know and understand the full scope of XML from day one in order to work with it successfully. With your time constraints and impossible project schedules, you need a comprehensive guide that fulfills your needs in one complete book. Inside XML is an anchor book that covers both the Microsoft and non-Microsoft approach to XML programming. It covers in detail the hot aspects of XML; such as, DTD's vs. XML Schemas, CSS, XSL, XSLT, Xlinks, Xpointers, XHTML, RDF, CDF, parsing XML in Perl and Java, and much more.

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Review:

Inside XML is an intelligent and easy-to-follow guide to today's proliferating XML standards. Aside from being a road map to the latest and greatest in what's on the horizon with XML, this book gives you what you need to know to be productive with existing XML tools right now.

The tour begins with an introduction to the XML used in real-world applications (like the Chemical Markup Language, CML, and the Vector Markup Language, VML [for graphics]). While many books give you the basics, this one excels at explaining the conventions of designing robust XML document types in detail. With dozens of short examples, you'll learn XML conventions thoroughly, including some of the best practices for creating readable, maintainable content. The author highlights certain lines of XML code, so it's easier to see what's important.

After 200 pages of in-depth material on how to design XML documents, the book turns to using XML in actual browsers (both in Netscape and Internet Explorer). This practical focus means that you get to explore available Microsoft tools and how they sometimes differ from official W3C standards.

Subsequent sections turn to related XML standards, like XLinks and XPointers. Each section lists Web links to the latest online documents, but the emphasis isn't on theory so much as on what you can do right now. You'll learn how to use Java with XML, including navigating the XML Document Object Model (DOM) using IBM's XML for Java (XML4J) package. The tutorial explaining the Simple API for XML (SAX) does a great job of explaining the advantages of this popular tool.

Final chapters delve into displaying XML with several existing standards, including XHTML (for Web browser content), VML (for drawing shapes), and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for allowing XML-based content searching. Final sections look at combining XML with Perl and Java (through servlets and JSPs) and give a glimpse at wireless content created with the Wireless Markup Language (WML).

Suitable for any developer or IT manager who needs to understand and use XML, Inside XML provides an authoritative yet approachable source of information on a fast-changing set of standards that are almost sure to revolutionize computing over the next few years. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

Comprehensive introduction to XML basics and tools
Designing XML documents (including "well-formed" XML, tags and elements, and attributes and namespaces)
Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
Entities and attributes (including design documents)
XML Schemas (using Internet Explorer)
Introduction to JavaScript
Using JavaScript with the XML Document Object Model (DOM)
Cascading style sheets (CSS)
Overview of basic Java programming
Parsing XML with IBM's XML for Java (XML4J)
Java and the Simple API for XML (SAX)
XSL transformations (XSL style sheets and XSL formatting objects)
XLinks and XPointers
Introduction to XHTML
The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
The Microsoft Channel Definition Format (CDF)
The Vector Markup Language (VML)
Using XML with Java
Perl and ASP on the server
Quick introduciton to the Wireless Markup Language (WML)
Reference to the XML 1.0 Specification

From the Publisher:

It was our goal in publishing this book to provide a book that is both comprehensive and accessible - as possible for a single book on XML can be. You shouldn't need any other book at this scope and level because this book brings you the most popular and important implementations out there today. Full of hands-on practical solutions, this book is full of examples and tested code ready to be used.

XML is an exciting technology and the author has worked hard to capture in this book the passion and artistry found with XML. We are committed to this book and will continue to work hard in making it the best resource available to you. Please help us in our goal and let us know what you think by emailing us at nrfeedback@newriders.com

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