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XML is revolutionizing business, enabling open information exchange that adds enormous value in both software development and content management. To make the most of XML, however, companies need a shared vocabulary to base their documents and scripts upon. That shared vocabulary has arrived in the form of a powerful new standard, XML Schema. Now, there's an authoritative guide to this widely anticipated technology, written by a key member of the W3C standards committee that created it. Priscilla Walmsley begins by showing how XML can allow companies to automate a wide range of B2B and content processing tasks -- and identifying the missing link they need to do so: a rigorous, complete standard for the structure, content, and semantics of XML documents. Walmsley shows how XML Schemas have been designed to fill that gap, offering extraordinary insight into the specification, as well as practical techniques for writing real-world schema. She covers every aspect of the standard, including namespaces, schema composition, instances, documentation and extension, and each key building block of XML Schema. The book includes a full section of advanced coverage, encompassing reusable and substitution groups, identity constraints, techniques for redefining schema components, and a full chapter on schemas from the point of view of experienced DTD creators. Walmsley concludes with two full chapters on effective schema design.
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XML is revolutionizing business, enabling open information exchange that adds enormous value in both software development and content management. To make the most of XML, however, companies need a shared vocabulary to base their documents and scripts upon. That shared vocabulary has arrived in the form of a powerful new standard, XML Schema. Now, there's an authoritative guide to this widely anticipated technology, written by a key member of the W3C standards committee that created it. Priscilla Walmsley begins by showing how XML can allow companies to automate a wide range of B2B and content processing tasks -- and identifying the missing link they need to do so: a rigorous, complete standard for the structure, content, and semantics of XML documents. Walmsley shows how XML Schemas have been designed to fill that gap, offering extraordinary insight into the specification, as well as practical techniques for writing real-world schema. She covers every aspect of the standard, including namespaces, schema composition, instances, documentation and extension, and each key building block of XML Schema.
The book includes a full section of advanced coverage, encompassing reusable and substitution groups, identity constraints, techniques for redefining schema components, and a full chapter on schemas from the point of view of experienced DTD creators. Walmsley concludes with two full chapters on effective schema design.
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