January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 5m
English
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Introduction
In this chapter
Roadmap to Special Edition Using XSLT
Conventions Used in This Book
The Metamorphosis Begins
One of the basic tenets of the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) involves the separation of data from business logic and presentation semantics. That is, by extricating data from its semantics, you free this information from the shackles of both the environment in which it resides and the client for which it’s targeted.
If you create this separation successfully, it won’t matter whether it’s mainframe or workstation, relational or object-oriented, DCOM or CORBA, Java or C++, Apache or IIS, Mac or Windows, or even Navigator or Internet Explorer. When it is decoupled from these often proprietary bindings, your XML data is just data ...