XML Specification GuideIan S Graham, Liam Quin
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In < I> X M L Specification Guide, authors Ian S. Graham and Liam Quin don't attempt to reinvent the wheel by teaching X M L in their own words. Instead, they present the actual 1. 0 specification from the World Wide Web Consortium and enhance it with useful background information, definitions, and reference tables. The book begins with a "bootstrap" tutorial that examines basic X M L documents and offers an overview of Document Type Definitions ( D T D). This section leads the reader through discussions of entities, D T D subsets, tokenized attribute types, C D A T A, and string normalization-all of the tongue-twisting terms that make up the heart of X M L. Plenty of code snippets illustrate the concepts, but the writing is aimed at a developer-level audience. The second part of the book is the X M L specification itself, buttressed with inserted notes, annotations, and a limited number of examples. Since you're reading from the actual standard, you can rest assured that you're getting the instruction right from the source. The third section of the book presents a series of additional technical appendices that the authors feel are important. These include style issues, character sets, comparisons between H T M L and X M L, a discussion of schemas versus D T Ds, and a glossary. Augmented by a companion Web site, this is a fine resource for any Web developer's desk. < I>-Stephen W. Plain
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