Network Programming, XML, SGML, & Other Document Mark-up Languages, Web Programming

The XML Companion

Name: The XML Companion
Author: Neil Bradley
ISBN: 9780201674866

by Neil Bradley

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Overview

XML is one of the most exciting recent developent to hit the World Wide Web, enabling the further expansion of Web technology into new domains of content management, audience-targeted presentation, and distributed document processing. This is the ideal reference with clarity, comprehensive coverage, and precision to get people up to speed on XML. Neil Bradley provides all users and potential users of the XML format with an accessible, in-depth reference to release 1.0 of the standard.

The XML Companion provides an accessible and comprehensive description of each XML feature, and includes a series of "Road Map" charts that reveal the structure of the XML standard. It also fully covers the proposed Linking and Stylesheet standards. Finally, the book contains an extensive glossary of XML and related terminology.

About the Author, Neil Bradley

Neil Bradley is an XML consultant with over fifteen years' practical experience with XML and in related fields. He is an experienced trainer, a regular speaker at industry events, and leading contributor to relevant magazines and journals. Currently a consultant for NVision, Bradley is developer of Podium, a Java-based, XML-aware editorial system. He is author of The Concise SGML Companion and The XSL Companion.

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Development Exchange

Both a great way of learning about XML and related technologies, and an excellent reference book you'll want to keep handy on your shelf. Development Exchange.

This reference for programmers, analysts, and consultants provides broad coverage of the many features of the Extensible Markup Language (XML). Apart from the core chapters on the XML standard itself, this text focuses on related standards developed by the W3C and on XML's applications in document publishing and data exchange. The volume does not assume that the reader is familiar with HTML or SGML. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Introduces programmers to techniques for designing and managing XML documents as well as standards for linking, styling and processing XML data. The second edition adds coverage of DOM 1.0, SAX 1.0, CSS 2 and Namespaces 1.0, and recently proposed standards for Xpath, XHTML and XML Catalog. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)