Mastering XML : Premium Edition

Comprehensive guide to XML, featuring appraisals of the latest XML development tools, case studies of companies like Dell, and instruction on data design, document creating and parsing and processing. The CD-ROM contains all of the sample code from the text, and a collection of XML tools and utilities. System requirements: CD-ROM drive. Softcover.

Chuck White is president and chief executive officer of The Tumeric Partnership, an integrated marketing communications company.

Introduction

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Part I Getting Started with XML

1

(160)

The Road to XML: The Evolution of Markup Languages

3

(20)

Who's Using XML?

23

(12)

Creating XML Documents

35

(32)

Understanding and Creating Elements

67

(32)

Understanding and Creating Attributes

99

(36)

Understanding and Creating Entities

135

(26)

Part II Designing Your Data

161

(58)

XML Design Principles

163

(22)

Creating Your Own DTD

185

(26)

An Introduction to XML Schemas

211

(8)

Part III XML Standards

219

(374)

Standards, Applications, and Vocabularies

221

(20)

Understanding Namespaces: Core Standard

241

(8)

Writing XML Schemas

249

(14)

Using the XML Linking Language

263

(20)

XHTML: HTML Goes XML

283

(10)

Transforming XML: Introducing XSLT

293

(86)

Displaying XML: Using XSLFO for Document Creation

379

(60)

Displaying XML: Working with Cascading Style Sheets

439

(38)

Displaying XML: Working with SVG

477

(26)

Making XML for Multimedia: SMIL

503

(40)

Understanding RDF

543

(18)

Introducing SOAP and XML Protocols

561

(18)

Additional Standards: XForms, XML Query, XML Signature, and Others

579

(14)

Part IV Industry Vocabularies

593

(116)

Introducing the Dublin Core

595

(18)

Producing Documents Using DocBook

613

(22)

Additional XML Vocabularies

635

(20)

Understanding the Microsoft Office XML Syntax

655

(16)

Microsoft.NET and XML

671

(16)

Open Source and XML

687

(22)

Part V The XML Toolbox

709

(76)

XML Development Tools

711

(26)

XML-Enabled Browsers

737

(36)

XML-Enabled Servers and Server Technologies

773

(12)

Part VI Parsing and Processing XML

785

(106)

Learning about XML Parsing and Processing

787

(18)

XML, Java, and SAX

805

(14)

Introducing the Document Object Model

819

(28)

Using Object-Oriented Programming with XML

847

(18)

Extracting XML Data with JavaScript

865

(26)

Part VII Applications Studies: XML and Databases

891

(34)

Using XML with Oracle and SQL Server

893

(12)

Using XML with Other Relational Database Management Systems

905

(20)

Part VIII Case Studies

925

(82)

Introduction to Real-World Examples

927

(12)

Using XML for Business-to-Business Data Integration: A webMethods Case Study

939

(22)

WDDX: An Allaire Case Study

961

(12)

Content Management with XML: A Dell Case Study

973

(34)

Appendices

1007

(87)

Appendix A XML Uses

1007

(16)

Appendix B Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)

1023

(50)

Appendix C XML Schema Elements and Data Types

1073

(21)

Index

1094

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