"Completely revised for standards compliance, including CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0"--Cover.

A complete webmaster's and web designer's guide to exploiting XML's full capabilities for presenting data. Project Cool(TM) Guide to XML for Web Designers. Internationally renowned web developer Teresa A. Martin gets you up to speed on what XML is, how it works, how it fits in with other web design and development tools, and how, when, and why to incorporate it into your web site. Project Cool Guide to XML for Web Designers is the only XML guide geared specifically to the needs of webmasters and designers, and offers clear step-by-step guidance for integrating the XML process-from DTDs, parsing, and assigning style data to displaying a page in web browsers. You get all the background information and working examples you need to: * Master the XML syntax to create well-formed and valid documents. * Build a simple DTD and create elements and attributes lists. * Attach styles to an XML document and display it in a web page. * Work with XML and the 5.X browsers to display pages more powerfully. * Use the new Document Object Model (DOM). * Learn about the new XSL specification, CSS, and IE5 behaviors. On the companion web site at www.projectcool.com/guide/xml you'll find: * A live demo that lets you see XML in action. * Regular updates on emerging XML specifications and applications. * Working examples of XML solutions. * Visual glossaries. Visit our web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

In this quick and easy introduction to key XML technologies, "Web Design with XML" adds another dimension to XML, demonstrating how to generate visual output using XML DTDs, Namespaces, CSS, XSL, and XSLT, all illustrated with examples.

Data model. Queries. Types. Sysems. A syntax for data. XML.. Query languages. Query languages for XML. Interpretation and advanced features. Typing semistructured data. Query processing. The lore system. Strudel. Database products supporting XML. Bibliography. Index. About the authors.

This guide for Web developers and database programmers shows how to build robust XML applications backed by SQL databases. After an overview of advantages of XML and SQL, stages of application development are detailed step-by-step, illustrated with examples of when and how each technology is most effective. Coverage includes project definition, data modeling, database schema design, and Java programming with XML and SQL. The book is intended for software developers managing small- to medium-scale projects. Appelquist is a technology consultant in content management and e-business strategy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

bull; Task-based approach teaches readers how to combine HTML and CSS to create sharp, consistent Web pages regardless of monitor size, browser, platform, or viewing device. bull; Comprehensive coverage of the transition from HTML to XHTML, including the differences between the languages. bull; Packed with tips, techniques, and illustrations--all updated to reflect newer browsers and the changing use of HTML.

Have you ever needed to share processing between two or more computers running programs written in different languages on different operating systems? Or have you ever wanted to publish information on the Web so that programs other than browsers could work with it? XML-RPC, a system for remote procedure calls built on XML and the ubiquitous HTTP protocol, is the solution you've been looking for.Programming Web Services with XML-RPC introduces the simple but powerful capabilities of XML-RPC, which lets you connect programs running on different computers with a minimum of fuss, by wrapping procedure calls in XML and establishing simple pathways for calling functions. With XML-RPC, Java programs can talk to Perl scripts, which can talk to Python programs, ASP applications, and so on. You can provide access to procedure calls without having to worry about the system on the other end, so it's easy to create services that are available on the Web.XML-RPC isn't the only solution for web services; the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is another much-hyped protocol for implementing web services. While XML-RPC provides fewer capabilities than SOAP, it also has far fewer interoperability problems and its capabilities and limitations are much better understood. XML-RPC is also stable, with over 30 implementations on a wide variety of platforms, so you can start doing real work with it immediately.Programming Web Services with XML-RPC covers the details of five XML-RPC implementations, so you can get started developing distributed applications in Java, Perl, Python, ASP, or PHP. The chapters on these implementations contain code examples that you can use as the basis for your own work. This book also provides in-depth coverage of the XML-RPC specification, which is helpful for low-level debugging of XML-RPC clients and servers. And if you want to build your own XML-RPC implementation for another environment, the detailed explanations in this book will serve as a foundation for that work.