- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (12 Oct 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130662542
- ISBN-13: 978-0130662545
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.4 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,846,286 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is an intermediate level book on XML that will be placed in the Essential Web Professionals series. XML is not a single, predefined markup language: it's a metalangue language for describing other languages. XML lets you define your own customized markup languages for different classes of document.
From the Back Cover
- Learn XML fundamentals and build Web applications—fast!
- Focused on the XML skills Web professionals need most
- Learn by doing, as you work on a fictional e-commerce site
- Up-to-the-minute coverage includes schemas, namespaces, XSLT, XLink, XPointer, XHTML, and more
- Learn practical techniques, based on real-world scenarios
Essential XML for Web Professionals is the fastest way for busy professionals to master the XML skills needed for building dynamic, portable, and scalable applications. By completeing hands-on projects covering a wide range of development tasks, you'll master key XML technologies—including schemas, namespaces, XSLT, XLink, XHTML, and more. Start with simple examples, then work your way up to sophisticated projects. Learn practical techniques! All sample applications found in the book are downloadable from the companion Web site. You can reuse and adapt the code to see exactly how your applications should look and work!
You'll master all this, and much more!
- Mastering XML fundamentals, structure, and syntax
- Defining XML using DTDs and schemas
- Using namespaces to resolve naming conflicts
- Building XML schema utilizing complex types
- Using XHTML to bridge HTML with XML
- Working with XLink
- Using CSS in XML environments
- Linking to XML fragments with XPointer
- Making the most of XSL Transformations (XSLT)
- Using key XML applications: SMIL, SVG, and WDDX
- Manipulating XML with the DOM
All these books share the same great format, and the same dynamic Web site... so once you've used one, they're all a piece of cake!
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Format:Paperback
Provides an excellent introduction to XML and includes sample files and tutorials on an accompanying web site. This book is written by a web developer for web developers, so is a nice contrast to all the programmer-oriented books (i.e. the big thick ones). It covers all the stuff you've heard about but never quite understood. It describes DTDs, schemas, the DOM, and shows you how to use XSL to format XML documents; the later chapters have common applications of XML such as SMIL and SVG.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Best XML book out there
22 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
This is my fifth XML book and it is absolutely, most definitely, the best one. XML itself is pretty simple, but all of the ways it can be defined and applied can be confusing. This book makes things like DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, XPointer, XLink and more very easy to understand. The author starts with simple, but not idiotic, examples, and builds on them throughout the book. The author is clearly both a teacher and a programmer. His goal is not to create a book of filler (like lots of others out there), but its clear he sincerely wants you to learn all about XML.
I was truly impressed by both the content and the intelligence of the presentation of this book. Even if you have a bunch of XML books already, reading this one will fill in gaps in your knowledge that you didn't even know you had.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Most useful XML reference/tutorial I've seen
31 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
There are certainly heavier XML books out there, but this one has dropped a lot useless filler than many of those books. I only work with XML once in a while, so I really don't need to remember exactly how, say, XPath works very often. This book contains many get-up-to-speed-quickly chapters that focus on teaching the most useful and most often used aspects of XML, as well as what clients seem to expect me to know about. For example, I was recently quizzed about SMIL and SVG by a client who I'm sure knew nothing about them, but since I had just finished this book, I was able to answer intelligently, and I believe it was a factor in my getting the job.
This book covers basic XML, XHTML, XSLT, XML Schema, DTDs, XPath, XLink, XPointer, SMIL, SVG and WDDX. It's wonderfully written and very useful. Two thumbs up!
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
The only book you need to get started in XML
27 Oct 2001
Format:Paperback
In order to keep my precarious web development job, I decided to learn XML - everyone's been talking about it for a while. As I usually do when I need to learn a new subject, I buy about a half dozen books on the subject. This book was one of those half-dozen. Suffice it to say that I returned the other five. Seriously, it's that good. It assumes nothing about your prior knowledge, and takes you step-by-step from simple XML into DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, XHTML, and more. The content is solid and the writing style is friendly, conversational, and intelligent.
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