Book Description
XML Design and Implementation will address the issues of developing applications using XML by using a case study with IE5. By considering the decisions to be made at various stages of the project, it will help readers understand the various aspects of XML and its related technologies. It will stress the benefits of XML in informational systems, where it can be used to separate content from presentation, and in transactional systems, where it can act as a low-cost alternative to EDI protocols.
From the Author
I wrote this book as a practical and pragmatic guide to XML.I had two aims. Firstly, most books were explaining what XML is, without a discussion of why and how to use it in real applications. While the technology is sufficiently new that a discussion on the recommendations is still essential to most readers, I decided that a case study approach would be the most useful to the target audience of web application developers. One reason that other books have been less practical is that there were no true mass-market XML-enabled browsers on the market. Any examples therefore had to be generic or use the IE4 implementation of XML, which was released before the main standards were complete. By timing the book to coincide with the release of IE5, I could use the XML and DOM recommendations on both the client and the server in my case study, while providing code that readers can download and run on standard client and server configurations. I could also use XSL, which, while still a working draft, is implemented in IE5 in a form that is likely to be similar to the final recommendation.
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