XML and Related Technologies

PREFACE

When I first learnt about XML, I was amazed by the buzz generated by this technology, as well, by the hype surrounding it. Every possible programming language, platform, and job advertisement seemed to speak about it. And yet when I thought of learning about it, I actually did not know what to learn. Because there were books and articles that promised to teach me XML and I ended up learning how to use XML. For example, with some attempt, I managed to grasp, how to create simple XML documents, how to validate their contents using DTDs and later on using schemas. I could also write programs in Java (and in those days, C++) that could parse the contents of an XML document, to look for a particular element, retrieve all instances of a particular ...