Real World XML

Preface

Welcome to Real World XML. This book is designed to be as comprehensive—and as accessible—as possible for a single book on XML. XML is a standard, not an implementation, and it's become an umbrella for a great number of topics. You'll find XML just about everywhere you look on the Internet today, and even in many places behind the scenes (such as internally in Netscape Navigator 6). I believe this book provides more complete coverage of what's going on in XML than any other XML book today.

You'll find coverage of all the official XML standards here. I'll also take a look at many of the most popular and important implementations of XML that are out there, and put them to work in this book.

That's just part of the story—we'll also put XML ...