Charles F. Goldfarb's Xml Handbook

In the past year, there has been dramatic evolution in XML-related standards, specifications, techniques, and products. Now, Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod have updated their definitive, best-selling XML guidebook to reflect the very latest innovations. Accessible enough for non-technical managers, thorough and accurate enough for technical professionals, Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook, Fourth Edition delivers practical insight for decision-making and implementation, real-world case studies, in-depth explanations of XML technologies, and more than 175 hand-picked XML software and trialware packages -- now on two CD-ROMs! Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook, Fourth Edition contains extensive new coverage of the latest XML standards and specifications, including XML Web Services, XML Query, XSL, Xpath, Xlink, Xpointer, Topic Maps, and even the just-finalized XML Schema Structures and Datatypes specifications. Goldfarb and leading XML developer Paul Prescod show how XML is simplifying supply chain integration, portal and "digital dashboard" development, trading exchanges, enterprise-class Web site management, and many other applications. They present several new enterprise case studies, and review state-of-the-art XML solutions, from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Adobe, and many others.

Table of Contents

xii

Preface

xxxviii

Charles F. Goldfarb

Foreword

i

Jean Paoli

Prolog

liv

Jon Bosak

Part 1 The Who, What, and Why of XML

2

(118)

Why XML?

4

(26)

Just enough XML

30

(30)

The XML usage spectrum

60

(12)

Better browsing through XML

72

(22)

Taking care of e-business

94

(12)

XML Jargon Demystifier™

106

(14)

Part 2 Three-tier applications

120

(44)

Personalized frequent-flyer website

122

(12)

Building an online auction website

134

(18)

Enabling data sources for XML

152

(12)

Part 3 E-commerce

164

(46)

From EDI to IEC: The new Web commerce

166

(22)

XML and EDI: Working together

188

(14)

An information pipeline for petrochemicals

202

(8)

Part 4 Integration

210

(52)

Application integration with Web and email

212

(12)

Integrating the mainframe

224

(12)

Integrated provisioning

236

(10)

Business integration

246

(16)

Part 5 Content Management

262

(60)

``World'' class content management

264

(10)

Content systems

274

(22)

Components: Key to content management

296

(12)

Components for graphic content

308

(14)

Part 6 Portals

322

(52)

Portal servers for e-business

324

(12)

Content systems for portals

336

(12)

RxML: Your prescription for healthcare

348

(10)

Information and Content Exchange (ICE)

358

(16)

Part 7 Publishing

374

(54)

Personalized financial publishing

376

(22)

High-volume data reporting

398

(16)

Developing reusable content

414

(14)

Part 8 Databases

428

(62)

XML and databases

430

(14)

XPath-based XML DBMS

444

(20)

Storing XML in a relational DBMS

464

(14)

XML, SQL, and XPath: Getting it all together

478

(12)

Part 9 Content Acquisition

490

(52)

XML mass-conversion facility

492

(12)

Do-it-in-house mass conversion

504

(12)

Integrating legacy data

516

(14)

Acquiring reusable renditions

530

(12)

Part 10 Schemes and Design

542

(46)

Building a schema for a product catalog

544

(14)

Schema management

558

(12)

Building your e-commerce vocabulary

570

(8)

XML design

578

(10)

Part 11 Voice

588

(24)

VoiceXML in a mobile environment

590

(10)

Adding telephony to your website

600

(12)

Part 12 Semantic Web

612

(56)

Extended linking

614

(14)

Topic maps: Knowledge navigation aids

628

(18)

RDF: Metadata description for Web resources

646

(10)

Application integration using topic maps

656

(12)

Part 13 Web Services

668

(40)

The Web services vision

670

(10)

Web services technologies

680

(14)

Deploying a Web service

694

(14)

Part 14 Infrastructure

708

(50)

XML processing

710

(14)

Java technology for XML development

724

(12)

Compression techniques for XML

736

(10)

New directions for XML applications

746

(12)

Part 15 XML Core Tutorials

758

(114)

XML basics

760

(28)

Creating a document type definition

788

(34)

Entities: Breaking up is easy to do

822

(24)

Advanced features of XML

846

(16)

Reading the XML specification

862

(10)

Part 16 Schema Tutorials

872

(66)

Namespaces

874

(14)

Datatypes

888

(30)

XML Schema (XSDL)

918

(20)

Part 17 Transform & Navigation Tutorials

938

(100)

XML Path Language (XPath)

940

(30)

XSL Transformations (XSLT)

970

(26)

XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO)

996

(8)

XML Pointer Language (XPointer)

1004

(14)

XML Linking Language (XLink)

1018

(20)

Part 18 Resources

1038

(86)

Free resources on the CD-ROM

1040

(30)

Repositories and vocabularies

1070

(32)

Acronyms and initialisms in The XML Handbook

1102

(16)

Other books on XML

1118

(6)

Index

1124

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