In the past year, there has been dramatic evolution in XML-related standards, specifications, techniques, and products. Now, Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod have updated their definitive, best-selling XML guidebook to reflect the very latest innovations. Accessible enough for non-technical managers, thorough and accurate enough for technical professionals, Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook, Fourth Edition delivers practical insight for decision-making and implementation, real-world case studies, in-depth explanations of XML technologies, and more than 175 hand-picked XML software and trialware packages -- now on two CD-ROMs! Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook, Fourth Edition contains extensive new coverage of the latest XML standards and specifications, including XML Web Services, XML Query, XSL, Xpath, Xlink, Xpointer, Topic Maps, and even the just-finalized XML Schema Structures and Datatypes specifications. Goldfarb and leading XML developer Paul Prescod show how XML is simplifying supply chain integration, portal and "digital dashboard" development, trading exchanges, enterprise-class Web site management, and many other applications. They present several new enterprise case studies, and review state-of-the-art XML solutions, from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Adobe, and many others.

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The proven XML resource: applications, products, technologies, and tutorials!
Revised and enlarged-latest standards and trends: schemas, datatypes, XSL, voice, wireless
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Developers, managers, consultants, and VCs rely on its technical accuracy, accessible writing style, and broad and deep coverage.

Learn XML

Start by learning what XML is, why it came to be, how it differs from HTML, and the handful of vital concepts that you must understand to apply XML quickly and successfully—in your business and in your code.

Use XML

Experience XML through illustrated discussions of tools and applications: Web services, B2B, B2C, EDI, exchanges, e-commerce, integration, portals, content management, databases, conversion, syndication, telephony, wireless, customization, publication, presentation.

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Master the details from friendly, in-depth presentations: XML, schemas, DTDs, datatypes, XSLT, XSL-FO, XLink, XPath, XPointer, XSDL, namespaces, topic maps, RDF, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, VoiceXML.

"This book is an excellent starting point where you can learn and experiment with XML. As the inventor of SGML, Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb is one of the most respected authorities on structured information."

—From the Foreword by Jean Paoli,
Microsoft XML architect and co-editor of the W3C XML specification

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5.0 out of 5 stars The 'must have' book for XML, 4 Feb 2002

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XML is for the naughties (00's) what HTML was for the nineties. This is the book you need for definitive guidance and coverage. XML is very important - it's had a lot of hype but the hype is coming true. If coding, you'll probably need some reference books to hand, such as O'Reilly's, but this is the book that makes sense of it all. It covers a very broad range, making it suitable for anyone seriously getting into XML and taking it to the current bleeding edge. The examples tend to be short and concise. Goldfarb is the granddaddy of XML and HTML (having 'fathered' SGML) and as such is able to make this book a real authority. Most of the chapters are 'sponsored' by various companies, an interesting technique whereby companies with particular expertise contributed much to a chapter, which is made use of by Goldberg in writing the chapter. It seems to work well - giving a reasonably uniform voice but covering more depth than any one person could hope to manage. If you have anything to do with data communications between machines, you need this.

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