XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides)

XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual QuickStart Guides)

by ElizabethCastro (Author)

Synopsis

[There is a new edition of this book: XML, Second Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide by Kevin Howard Goldberg (ISBN: 0-321-55967-3)] Web-maven Elizabeth Castro, who has penned Peachpit books on HTML,Perl and CGI, and Netscape, now tackles XML--an indispensable tool for creating personalized, updated content for each visitor on your site. Whether you build Web pages for a living or you're taking on anew hobby, XML for the World Wide Web contains everything you need to create dynamic Web sites by writing XML code, developing custom XML applications with DTDs and schemas, transforming XML into personalized Web content through XSLT-based transformations, and professionally formatting XML documents with Cascading Style Sheets.The real power of XML lies in combining information from various sources and generating personalized content for different visitors.Castro's easy-to-follow graphics show exactly what XML looks like,and her real-world examples explain how to transform and streamline your Web-site creation process by automatically updating content.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 01
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 23 Oct 2000

ISBN 10: 0201710986
ISBN 13: 9780201710984
Book Overview:

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is revolutionizing the way people work with the Web. In XML, markup tags are readable by humans and machines, making XML a well-supported way to create, distribute, and present information. Hundreds of thousands of readers learned HTML from Elizabeth Castro with HTML 4 For the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. Now, using concise instructions and plenty of screen shots, Elizabeth Castro teaches beginning users all they need to know to write XML codes, XSL, and Cascading Style Sheets, as well as providing the scripts required to generate each piece. For anyone wanting to learn XML and use it to generate dynamic Web sites, Castro's book is an excellent and affordable resource.


Author Bio

Elizabeth Castro is the author of the four best-selling editions of HTML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide. She also wrote the best-selling Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, and the Macintosh and Windows versions of Netscape Communicator 4: Visual QuickStart Guide. She was the technical editor for Peachpit's The Macintosh Bible, Fifth Edition, and she founded Pgina Uno, a publishing house based in Barcelona, Spain.