Introduction to Applied Xml Technologies in Business

TEXT OVERVIEW

This text provides an introduction to the markup technology of XML, covers its features and abilities and explains the strategic importance for developing web-based applications. Additionally, the text:

1. Helps students envision how XML can be used to gain a competitive advantage in e-commerce
2. Provides substantial hands-on experience in using and understanding the workings of XML
3. Clarifies confusing terminology that currently pervades the industry
4. Encourages the development of more sophisticated e-commerce applications.

FEATURES/BENEFITS

• An emphasis on creative thinking.
• Provides students with more than just a cookbook programming text, and challenges them to apply XML to typical EC scenarios.
• Chapter-opening mini-cases—The framework that XML can be explained within.
• Describes for students actual XML applications that have been taken from the professional press.
• Chapter-end exercises—Features a set of three different cases drawn from a variety of contexts.
• Shows students how different types of organizations would apply the XML features described in each chapter.
• Chapter-end discussion questions.
• Offers students the opportunity to review their comprehension of key content in each chapter before moving on to the next one.
• Tutorials with a general XML theme—e.g Data Content; Data Definitions; Data Output; and Parsing XML to Collect Data.
• Serves students with progressive lessons and working examples that allow them to build their knowledge upon what they have learned previously.

INSTRUCTORSUPPORT PACKAGE:

• Instructors Resource CD contains two key components:
  - (1) Instructors Resource Manual
  - (2) Test Bank which supplies instructors with a variety of different types of questions that enable them to check students' understanding of key concepts.
• Companion Website: Send your students to the web to complete various exercises, review questions, and to learn more about XML.