XML Primer Plus

📖 The Scoop

Annotation Presents the conceptual foundation for XML with examples demonstrating how and when to use it. Teaches XML not as a theoretical standard, but as a useful programming tool, without assuming prior XML knowledge. Reviews the background information necessary to understand how to design and build sound XML structures and applications. Discusses XML programming in a language-neutral way, allowing all developers to benefit. This book presents XML programming from a conceptual perspective, teaching not just the technology, but the background and thinking behind it. Developers learn to do it right, gaining a thorough understanding of the hows and whys from the ground up. Rather than teaching programmers to memorize specific APIs, this book teaches programmers how to think about XML programming in a language-neutral way, with examples in various languages (such as Java, C++, Perl, and VB) and provides guidance on how and when XML can be used in real-world situations. Nicholas Chasehas been building applications around XML as the CTO of an interactive development firm. As CTO, he was involved in Web site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He is also an educator with nearly a decade of experience teaching developers to use emerging technologies. He is the author of four books on Web programming topics. His titles include: HTML and XHTML: Creating Web Pages,0130310549, $48.95, PH, Against the Clock;PH, January 2002, XML and Java from Scratch,0789724766, $39.99, Que, 3/2001, Active Server Pages 3.0 from Scratch,0789722615, $39.99, Que, 12/1999, and Special Edition Using Oracle 8/8i,0789719754, $49.99, Que, 6/1999.

Genre: Computers / Data Science / General (fancy, right?)