Charles F.Goldfarbs XML Handbook (Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series)

by Charles F . Goldfarb (Author), PaulPrescod (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $33.21

  Appropriate for all courses in XML, as well as courses in Web development or content management utilizing XML technologies.

  XML-related standards, specifications, techniques, and products continue to evolve rapidly, and with each passing year, XML applications become more widespread, diverse, and important. Now, Charles F. Goldfarb has updated his definitive, best-selling XML guidebook to help students understand every key XML concept and every significant new innovation. Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook, Fifth Edition is accessible enough for students encountering XML for the first time, and thorough and accurate enough for students with advanced expertise in XML, programming, or content management. This edition adds new and expanded coverage of SOAP 1.2-based Web services and the evolving Topic Maps standard, each with a start-to-finish case study. It contains up-to-the-minute coverage of today's increasingly popular server-based publishing techniques. It provides brand-new coverage of desktop XML, including the breakthrough XML support in Microsoft Office 2003 and InfoPath, Microsoft's XML-based electronic forms tool. Goldfarb introduces every significant XML standard and specification, including XSL, XSLT, Xpath, Xlink, Xpointer, XML Query, XML Schema Structures and Datatypes, and more. Through practical case studies, he shows how XML is revolutionizing both e-businesses and bricks-and-mortar businesses, simplifying supply chain integration, portal and digital dashboard development, promoting trading exchanges, improving Web site management, and enabling many other new applications. This edition also includes two CD-ROMs containing more than 175 hand-picked XML software and trialware packages. It represents the best single XML information source for every student interested in XML: programmers, Web content creators, technical and marketing communicators, business students, and many others.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.21

  The definitive, best-selling introduction to XML -- just updated again with even more new products, applications, resources, standards, and techniques!-- Written by Charles F. Goldfarb, inventor of the SGML markup language that gave birth to XML and HTML.-- New coverage of XML Web Services, XML Query, XSL, Xpath, Xlink, Xpointer, Topic Maps -- even the just-finalized XML Schema Structures and Datatypes specs!-- 2 CD-ROMs! Over 175 hand-picked XML software packages: genuine freeware, plus the latest trialware and demos from the industry's leaders.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. 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 state-of-the-art XML solutions, from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Intel,Hewlett-Packard, Adobe, and many others.