XML and SQL: Developing Web Applications

Introduction

This book is about how you can use Extensible Markup Language (XML) and relational databases in the real world to solve real problems (as opposed to the sometimes academic world of standards bodies and other groups that promote standards usage). In other words, you can really use XML—it's not just hype. In this book, you will find concrete examples, insight into the application development life cycle as I've known it, and a discussion of the why, the how, and the where of building applications (with a special focus on Web applications) using the tools of XML and relational databases.

This book is not intended to be a comprehensive guide. It's an overview of the field, packed with good ideas and witty commentary, which should get you ...