Book Description
XML is the latest buzz-word on the internet. It's a rapidly maturing technology with powerful real-world applications, particularly for the management, display and organization of data. Together with its display language (XSL) and the standardized Document Object Model, it is essential technology for anyone looking for more efficient and cost effective ways of both managing and transfering data. Perhaps the most well known applications are web related (especially with the latest developments in handheld web access - for which the technology is XML-based). But there are many other non-web based applications where XML is useful - for example as a replacement for (or to complement) traditional databases or for the transfer of financial information between businesses.

Beginning XML Programming covers everything you need to integrate XML into your systems.

Synopsis
XML is the latest "buzzword" on the Internet. It's a rapidly maturing technology with powerful real-world applications, particularly for the management, display and organization of data. Together with its display language (XSL) and the standardized Document Object Model, it is essential technology for anyone looking for more efficient and cost effective ways of both managing and transfering data. Perhaps the most well known applications are web related (especially with the latest developments in handheld web access - for which the technology is XML-based). But there are many other non-web based applications where XML is useful - for example as a replacement for (or to complement) traditional databases or for the transfer of financial information between businesses. This work covers everything you need to integrate XML into your systems.

From the Publisher
This book is for people who know that it would be a pretty good idea to learn the language, but aren't 100% sure why. You've heard the hype, but haven't seen enough substance to figure out what XML is, and what it can do. Beginning XML covers everything from what XML is and why the industry felt that a language like this was needed, to creating 'well-formed' and valid XML documents and learning how to use them in real development environments.

Book Information
Topics covered:

• Well-formed XML
  
• Cascading style sheets
  
• XSLT and Xpath
  
• Document Object Model (DOM)
  
• Simple API for XML (SAX)
  
• XML/database integration schemas
  
• Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
  
• Namespaces
  
• B2B data transfer applications
  
• Discussion group applications.