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Includes index

XML: An Inside Look -- XML: In the Beginning -- What Is XML? -- Why Is XML Such a Big Deal? -- Document Type Definitions -- Where to Place the DTD -- Reading an XML Document -- Why Are Corporations Switching to XML? -- Web Services -- Creating an XML Document -- Identifying Information -- Creating XML Markup Tags -- Parent...Parent/Child...Child -- Creating a Document Type Definition -- Creating an XML Document -- Attributes -- Entities -- Processing Instructions -- CDATA Sections -- Document Type Definitions -- Types of Document Type Definition -- External Document Type Definition -- Shared Document Type Definition -- Element Declarations -- Specifying the Number of Occurrences in an Element -- Optional Child Elements -- Grouping Elements -- EMPTY and ANY Elements -- Naming Elements -- Attribute Declarations -- Entity Declarations -- XML Schema -- Inside an XML Schema -- Document Type Definition vs. XML Schema -- An Inside Look at an XML Schema -- Defining Simple Elements -- Defining Attributes -- Facets -- Working with Whitespace Characters -- Complex Elements -- Setting the Number of Occurrences -- XLink, XPath, XPointer -- An Inside Look at XLink -- Speaking the XLink Language -- XPath -- A Closer Look at XPath -- Predicates -- Functions -- XPointer -- XSLT -- What Is XSLT? -- XPath and the Transformation -- Source and Result Documents -- XSLT in Action -- A Closer Look at XSL Stylesheet -- XML Parsers and Transformations -- Parsing an XML Document -- The Simple API for XML (SAX) -- Components of a SAX Parser -- The DTD Handler -- The Document Object Model -- Java and Parsing an XML Document -- Really Simple Syndication (RSS) -- What Is Really Simple Syndication (RSS)? -- Inside an RSS Document -- More About the channel Element -- Communicating with the Aggregator -- More About the item Element -- XQuery -- Testing Saxon-B -- How XQuery Works -- For, Let, and Order By Clauses -- The Where and Return Clauses -- A Walkthrough of an XQuery -- Constructors -- Conditional Statements -- Retrieving the Value of an Attribute -- Retrieving the Value of an Attribute and the Attribute Name -- Functions -- MSXML -- What Is MSXML? -- Getting Down and Dirty with MSXML -- Loading a Document -- The LoadDocument() Function -- Adding a New Element -- The LoadNewNode() Function -- The InsertFirst() Method -- The InsertLast() Method -- The InsertBefore() Function -- The InsertAfter() Function -- Create a New Element Programmatically -- Select, Extract, Delete, and Validate -- The SelectArtist() Function-Filtering an XML Document -- The DisplayTitles() Function -- The DeleteNodes() Function -- The ValidateDocument() Function -- MSXML and XSLT -- CD Listing -- Final Exam

Presents step-by-step instructions on using building XML Web applications