The XML Handbook

XML is taking off like a rocket, transforming Web publishing, e-Commerce, and database applications alike. Now, Charles Goldfarb and Paul Prescod have updated their definitive, best-selling XML introduction to reflect today's latest products, applications, standards, and trends. Accessible enough for non-technical managers, comprehensive and accurate enough for technical professionals, this book offers systematic guidance for decision-making and implementation -- plus an enormous, hand-picked library of the world's best XML software and resources. Discover how XML is revolutionizing both e-businesses and "bricks-and-mortar" businesses, simplifying the development of enterprise application integration, supply chain integration, portals, "digital dashboards," trading exchanges, and many other new applications. Review the latest XML-related standards and specifications, including XSL, Xlink, Xpointer, schemas, Xpath and XSL Transformation; and understand the role of XML in middleware. Walk through several real-world XML enterprise case studies, and review today's state-of-the-art XML solutions, from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Arbortext, XMLSolutions, and many others.

Part 1 The Who, What, and Why of XML

2

(104)

Why XML?

4

(24)

Just enough XML

28

(26)

The XML usage spectrum

54

(12)

Better browsing through XML

66

(16)

Taking care of e-business

82

(10)

XML Jargon DemystifierTM

92

(14)

Part 2 Middle-tier Servers

106

(64)

Personalized frequent-flyer website

108

(12)

Building an online auction website

120

(18)

Anatomy of an information server

138

(12)

Wells Fargo & Company

150

(8)

Bidirectional information flow

158

(12)

Part 3 E-Commerce

170

(66)

From EDI to IEC: The new Web commerce

172

(22)

XML and EDI: Working together

194

(14)

Collaboration in an e-commerce supply web

208

(10)

Lead tracking by Web and email

218

(10)

An information pipeline for petrochemicals

228

(8)

Part 4 Portals

236

(38)

Enterprise Information Portals (EIP)

238

(14)

Portal servers for e-business

252

(12)

RxML: Your prescription for healthcare

264

(10)

Part 5 Syndication

274

(42)

XMLNews: A syndication document type

276

(12)

Wavo Corporation

288

(12)

Information and Content Exchange (ICE)

300

(16)

Part 6 Publishing

316

(48)

Frank Russell Company

318

(22)

PC World Online

340

(16)

MTU-DaimlerChrysler Aerospace

356

(8)

Part 7 Content Management

364

(58)

Tweddle Litho Company

366

(10)

Efficient content management

376

(14)

Document storage and retrieval

390

(16)

Enterprise data management

406

(16)

Part 8 Content Acquisition

422

(74)

Developing reusable content

424

(14)

Converting renditions to abstractions

438

(12)

Planning for document conversion

450

(20)

XML mass-conversion facility

470

(12)

Integrating legacy data

482

(14)

Part 9 Schemas

496

(56)

Building a schema for a product catalog

498

(14)

Schema management at Major Bank

512

(12)

Building your e-commerce vocabulary

524

(10)

Repositories and vocabularies

534

(18)

Part 10 Stylesheets

552

(38)

The role of stylesheets

554

(8)

A stylesheet-driven tutorial generator

562

(16)

Designing website stylesheets

578

(12)

Part 11 Navigation

590

(46)

Extended linking

592

(14)

Topic maps: Knowledge navigation aids

606

(18)

Application integration using topic maps

624

(12)

Part 12 Infrastructure

636

(38)

Java technology for XML development

638

(10)

Building a rich-media digital asset manager

648

(14)

New directions for XML applications

662

(12)

Part 13 XML Tutorials

674

(112)

XML basics

676

(26)

Creating a document type definition

702

(34)

Entities: Breaking up is easy to do

736

(24)

Advanced features of XML

760

(16)

Reading the XML specification

776

(10)

Part 14 Related Tutorials

786

(140)

Namespaces

788

(12)

XML Path Language (XPath)

800

(28)

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)

828

(32)

XML Pointer Language (XPointer)

860

(14)

XML Linking Language (XLink)

874

(20)

Datatypes

894

(14)

XML Schema (XSDL)

908

(18)

Part 15 Resources

926

(44)

Free resources on the CD-ROM

928

(36)

Other \XML-related books

964

(6)

Index

970

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