XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide (Paperback)

This single-source reference and tutorial brings together up-to-the-minute information about every core XML technology from the W3C. The book's unique features are designed to make XML easier than ever to master and use effectively. The book includes extensive tables designed for rapid access to key information, plus a "Big Picture " diagram showing how virtually every key W3C XML-related initiative fits together and links you directly to the main source for each. Sall begins by reviewing XML's history, goals, evolution, fundamental concepts, and syntax. He covers parsing and programming APIs, techniques for displaying and transforming XML, related core XML specifications, and specialized XML vocabularies. Among the XML-related technologies covered in depth in this book: DTDs, XML Schema, XHTML, Namespaces, XSL, XSLT, SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, CSS, XLink, and XPointer. The book also includes a chapter on XSL Formatting Objects by G. Ken Holman, current chair of the OASIS XSLT Conformance Technical Subcommittee; and a full chapter on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) by Ora Lassila, a member of the W3CRDF Core Working Group. For every Web professional and software developer working with XML.

As XML continues to mature, developers need to understand how this standard and its related technologies are revolutionizing software development. XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide provides a complete roadmap for understanding how XML, XSL, XML Schema, and related specifications interlink to create powerful, real-world applications.

Both a reference and tutorial, this practical guide begins with a detailed timeline that charts the history of the Internet, the Web, and XML. Next, you'll find an introduction to all of the technologies covered in later chapters. From there, focus shifts to syntax, parsing and programming APIs, transforming and displaying XML, related core specifications, and specialized vocabularies. This book is filled with useful, hands-on examples, tables, and numerous links to further information. The broad and balanced approach explains both the potentials and the pitfalls of the various XML technologies. Also included are a chapter on XSL Formatting Objects (XSLFO) by G. Ken Holman, current chair of the OASIS XSLT Conformance Technical Subcommittee; and a chapter on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) by Ora Lassila, coauthor of the RDF Model and Syntax Specification for the W3C.

Developers will find detailed coverage of:

• XML and DTD syntax
• XML Namespaces
• XML Schema
• Parsing with SAX, DOM, JDOM, and JAXP
• Styling XML using CSS and CSS2
• Transforming XML with XSLT and XPath
• XSL Formatting Objects
• XLink and XPointer
• XHTML: HTML for the present and the future
• RDF

The Big Picture of the XML family is presented in a four-color chart on the inside front cover. The colors indicate the maturity of each specification. A timeline pullout at the back of the book details the gestation period of each of the key specifications.

A Web site, located at http://wdvl.Internet.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/XMLFamily, contains hundreds of links referenced in the book. Included is an imagemap version of the XML family Big Picture that will connect you to more than 60 specifications or, in some cases, to a collection of documents relating to specific specifications.

With its broad-based approach, XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide is one of few detailed and comprehensive reference books available that contains information about the entire XML family of specifications.

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