XML For Dummies by Lucinda Dykes

Product Description

See how XML works for business needs and RSS feeds

Create consistency on the Web, or tag your data for different purposes

Tag — XML is it! XML tags let you share your format as well as your data, and this handy guide will show you how. You'll soon be using this markup language to create everything from Web sites to business forms, discovering schemas and DOCTYPES, wandering the Xpath, teaming up XML with Office 2003, and more.

Discover how to
Make information portable
Use XML with Word 2003
Store different types of data
Convert HTML documents to XHTML
Add CSS to XML
Understand and use DTDs
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #182974 in Books
Published on: 2005-05-20
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
384 pages
Editorial Reviews

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Offering the most recent XML core and related specifications including XML 1.1 and Microsoft Office 2003, this book is an ideal introductory resource on the basics of XML, the flexible way to create common information formats and share both the format and the data
With more than 70 percent revised text, the new coverage includes how to use the XML features in Office 2003, a discussion of the many practical business applications for XML, and how to actually implement XML in a business setting
Takes into account that XML is not exclusively for Web designers any longer and targets newcomers to XML who need to learn how to solve business issues as well as those who need practical XML solutions
The companion Web site contains programming code, trial software packages, XML tools and parsers, and sample XSLT transforms
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Book Info
Discover how to understand XML fundamentals, build document type definitions, style pages using XSL, work with XML linking languages, harness the latest XML applications and tools, and more. Softcover.

From the Publisher
An ideal beginner's guide to XML!
Customer Reviews

Great Book
I'm never disappointed with Dummies books and this one is no exception. Great read, easy to learn.

Reviews Are About A Different Edition of XML For Dummies
These reviews are all very misleading as they refer to a previous edition of the book which is no longer available, the third edition of XML For Dummies. XML For Dummies, 4th edition, the book featured here, addresses many of the concerns raised in the reviews of the third edition.

Just flat out wrong sometimes
As a complete newbie to XML this was a good starter. As I got deeper into XML I found several mistakes/deficiencies in the book, and sometimes the author just flat out seemed to not know what he was talking about. For instance, the claim on page 86 that (#CDATA) is a valid DTD element content definition is flat out wrong. His description of Schema element declarations (pp. 114-115) teaches that using globals/refs is the only way to define complex elements, and is inappropriate for his example. He makes no mention of globals at all, leaving the reader confused. I have ceased to trust this book as a valid source of XML information.