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XML Index - XML Book :
XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide
by Kenneth B. Sall Paperback - 1072 pages Bk&Cd-Rom edition (May 31, 2002) Addison-Wesley Pub Co ISBN: 0201703599 As XML continues to mature, developers need to understand how this standard and its related technologies are revolutionizing software development. XML Family of Specifications provides a complete roadmap for understanding how XML, XSL, XML Schema, and related specifications interlink to create powerful, real-world applications. Both a reference and tutorial, this practical guide begins with a detailed timeline that charts the history of the Internet, the Web, and XML. Next, you'll find a gentle introduction to all of the technologies covered in later chapters (and more). From there, focus shifts to syntax, parsing and programming APIs, transforming and displaying XML, related core specifications, and specialized vocabularies. This book is filled with useful, hands-on examples, tables, and numerous links to further information. The broad and balanced approach explains both the potentials and the pitfalls of the varous XML technologies. The book includes a chapter on XSL Formatting Objects (XSLFO) by G. Ken Holman, current chair of the OASIS XSLT Conformance Technical Subcommittee; and a chapter on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) by Ora Lassila, co-author of the RDF Model and Syntax Specification for the W3C. In addition, developers will find coverage of: • XML and DTD syntax, XML Namespaces, XML Schema, Parsing with SAX, DOM, JDOM, and JAXP Styling XML using CSS and CSS2 Transforming XML with XSLT and XPath XSL Formatting Objects XLink and XPointer • XHTML--HTML for the present and future RDF The Big Picture of the XML family is presented in four-color chart on the inside front cover--the colors indicate the maturity of each specification. A timeline pullout at the back of the book details the gestation period of each of the key specifications.The companion CD-ROM contains the numerous code samples presented in the text, official W3C specs in PDF format, as well as free or evaluation copies of XML tools including: - commercial XML, DTD and XML Schema editors, XML parsers and XSLT processors, and more. A Web site, located at wdvl.Internet/Authoring/Languages/XML/XMLFamily, contains hundreds of links referenced in the book. An imagemap version of the XML family Big Picture that is posted there will connect you to more than 60 specifications or, in some cases, to a collection of documents relating to specific specifications.With its broad-based approach, XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide is one of few detailed and comprehensive reference books available that contains information about the entire XML family of specifications. About the Author: Kenneth B. Sall is an XML consultant. He has sixteen years' experience in information technology, including eight years of Web development. Sall was a key contributor to the Astronomical Instrument Markup Language for NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. In addition, he maintains the XML section of Web Developers Virtual Library (WDVL.Internet) and has written many articles and spoken extensively on XML. |
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