XML Problem Design Solution (Programmer to Programmer)

Offering a unique approach to learning XML, this book walks readers through the process of building a complete, functional, end-to-end XML solution Featured case study is an online business product catalog that includes reports, data input/output, workflow, stylesheet formatting, RSS feeds, and integration with external services like Google, eBay, and Amazon The format of presenting a problem and working through the design to come up with a solution enables readers to understand how XML markup allows a business to share data across applications internally or with partners or customers even though they might not use the same applications Content: Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: XML and the Enterprise. Chapter 2: Well-Formed XML. Chapter 3: Creating and Distributing a Structure for Shared Information. Chapter 4: Presenting XML Directly. Chapter 5: Converting XML Content Online. Chapter 6: Rendering XML to Print. Chapter 7: Targeting Your Audience. Chapter 8: Searching and Merging XML Documents. Chapter 9: Integrating XML with the Rest of Your Data. Chapter 10: Transforming Business Documents. Chapter 11: Consuming Data with Web Services and Syndication. Chapter 12: Providing Web Services. Chapter 13: Combining Catalogs. Chapter 14: Integrating and Automating Business Processes. Appendix A: Tools. Appendix B: Additional Reading. Appendix C: Online Resources. Glossary. Index.

• Offering a unique approach to learning XML, this book walks readers through the process of building a complete, functional, end-to-end XML solution
• Featured case study is an online business product catalog that includes reports, data input/output, workflow, stylesheet formatting, RSS feeds, and integration with external services like Google, eBay, and Amazon
• The format of presenting a problem and working through the design to come up with a solution enables readers to understand how XML markup allows a business to share data across applications internally or with partners or customers even though they might not use the same applications

"This nuts-and-bolts guide shows you the power of XML by presenting an enterprise application problem that you'll design a program to solve throughout the book. Each chapter takes one part of the featured project and leads you through the design of its solution. The team of experienced authors gradually walks you through sections of increasing depth, each one developing a more advanced treatment of XML than the previous." "This book is for programmers new to XML who want to grasp the concepts of XML markup and understand the diversity of its potential uses."--Jacket Offering a unique approach to learning XML, this book walks readers through the process of building a complete, functional, end-to-end XML solution. It also features a case study, which is an online business product catalog that includes reports, data input/output, workflow, and integration with external services like Google, eBay, and Amazon. XML is short for Extensible Markup Language (sometimes written as eXtensible Markup Language), which enables information to be encoded with meaningful structure and in a way that both computers and humans can understand.