Goldfarb (the inventor of SGML) and Walmsley (a consultant specializing in XML architecture) explain what XML and schemas are all about, how they help users share information, and how desktop XML enables easy integration of Office apps with back-end data sources and Web services. Individual chapters concentrate on topics like basic concepts, creating documents, spreadsheets, forms, web-based publishing, the XML language, XPath, datatypes, and web services technologies. The guide comes with a CD containing a trial version of InfoPath 2003. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
CHARLES F. GOLDFARB is the father of XML Technology. He invented SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language on which both XML and HTML are based. His XML Handbook is now in its fifth edition, with more than 100,000 copies in print.
PRISCILLA WALMSLEY is a developer of the XML Schema Recommendation on which Office 2003’s XML support is built. She is a consultant specializing in XML architecture and data management, a power user of Microsoft Office, and the author of Definitive XML Schema.