Publisher's Synopsis
The definitive, best-selling introduction to XML, fully updated with new products, applications, resources, standards, and more! *Co-authored by Charles F. Goldfarb, inventor of the SGML markup language that gave birth to XML and HTML. *New coverage of XSL, Xlink, Xpointer, schemas, Xpath, and XSLT. *CD-ROM: Over 125 hand-picked XML genuine freeware packages, plus the latest trialware and demos from the industry's leaders. XML is taking off like a rocket, transforming Web publishing, e-Commerce, and database applications alike. Now, Charles Goldfarb and Paul Prescod have updated their definitive, best-selling XML introduction to reflect today's latest products, applications, standards, and trends. Accessible enough for non-technical managers, comprehensive and accurate enough for technical professionals, this book offers systematic guidance for decision-making and implementation - plus an enormous, hand-picked library of the world's best XML software and resources.;Discover how XML is revolutionizing both e-businesses and "bricks-and-mortar" businesses, simplifying the development of enterprise application integration, supply chain integration, portals, "digital dashboards," trading exchanges, and many other new applications. Review the latest XML-related standards and specifications, including XSL, Xlink, Xpointer, schemas, Xpath and XSL Transformation; and understand the role of XML in middleware. Walk through several real-world XML enterprise case studies, and review today's state-of-the-art XML solutions, from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Arbortext, XMLSolutions, and many others. Charles F. Goldfarb is the father of markup languages. Goldfarb invented SGML, the international standard XML and HTML are both based upon. He is author of The SGML Handbook. Paul Prescod is a leading XML consulting engineer for DataChannel's ISOGEN division, and a member of the W3C team that developed XML.
