XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Book Description
This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of vocabulary creation, to transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. XML in a Nutshell, in fact, is the only reference of its kind among XML books.
Whether you’re a Web designer using SVG to add vector graphics toweb pages, or a C++ programmer using SOAP to serialize objects into a remote database, this expanded second edition provides a thorough explanation of all the basic rules — including XML, DTDs, namespaces, Unicode, XML Schemas, XSLT, Xpath, SAX, and DOM. If you need explanation of how a technology works, or just need to quickly find the precise syntax for a particular piece, this is the place to look. XML in a Nutshell is an essential guide for developers who need to create XML-based file formats and data structures for use in any XML document.
Topics covered:
- XML history
- Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
- Namespaces
- Internationalization
- XML-based data formats
- XHTML
- XSL
- XPath
- XLink
- XPointer
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- XSL-FO
- Document Object Model (DOM)
- Simple API for XML (SAX)
Review
‘It is truly an amazing book ‘- Greek TeX Friends Newsletter, August 2001 ‘…there is the usual thoroughness one associates with O’Reilly publications. The coverage is totally comprehensive, and all the data is displayed in an attractive and consistent format…. It contains all the basics of the XML standard. Serious web developers will find topics ranging from the most basic syntax rules, to the details of document type definition (DTD) creation. For more advanced users, they also include details of Extensible Stylesheet Transformation (XSLT) and the document object model (DOM). MANTEX Information Design –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Elliotte Rusty Harold is originally from New Orleans to which he returns periodically in search of a decent bowl of gumbo. However, he currently resides in the University Town Center neighborhood of Irvine with his wife Beth, dog Shayna, and cats Charm (named after the quark) and Marjorie (named after his mother-in-law). He’s an adjunct professor of computer science at Polytechnic University where he teaches Java, XML, and object orientedprogramming. He’s a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Software Development, Dr. Dobb’s Architecure & Design World, SD Best Practices, Extreme Markup Languages, and too many user groups to count. His open source projects include the XOM Library for processing XML with Java and the Amateur media player.
Book Details
- Paperback: 640 pages
- Publisher: O’Reilly Media; Second Edition (June 15, 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596002920
- ISBN-13: 978-0596002923
- File Size: 5.8 MiB
XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition