
This book takes a “hands-on” approach to XML. It will teach you how to
deploy XML in your environment: how to decide where XML fits and how
to best implement it. It is illustrated with many real-world examples.
As you will see, there are two classes of applications for XML: publishing
and data exchange. This book draws most of its examples from data
exchange applications because they are currently the most popular.
However, it also includes a very comprehensive example of Web site pub-
lishing.
I make some assumptions about you. I assume you are familiar with the
Web, insofar that you can read, understand, and write basic HMTL pages
as well as read and ...