Summary

This new book by the world's leading programming-language textbook authors carefully explains XML-based systems development, including programming multi-tier, client/server, databaseoriented, Internet and World-Wide-Web-based applications.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized corporate training and content-creation organization specializing in Java^™, C++, C, C#, Visual Basic^®, XML, Python, Perl, ASP, Internet, World Wide Web and object technologies. The Deitels are also the authors of the world's #1 Java and C++ textbooks, Java How to Program, 3/e and C++ How to Program, 3/e.

In XML How to Program, the Deitels and their colleagues, Tern R. Nieto, Ted Lin and Praveen Sadhu discuss topics you need to build complete, working XML-based systems including:

• HTML/XHTML^™/CSS^™
• DTD/Schema/Parsers
• DOM^™ (Document Object Model)
• SAX 1/SAX 2 (Simple API for XML)
• XPath/XLink/Namespaces
• XBase/Xlnclude/XPointer/XSL^™
• XSLT/XSL^™ Formatting Objects
• Perl/CGI/Active Server Pages
• Java Servlets/Topic Maps
• SVG^™ (Scalable Vector Graphics)/X3D
• WML (Wireless Markup Language)
• WAI^™ (Web Accessibility Initiative)
• XForms/Cocoon/VoiceXML^™
• MathML^™/OpenMath/XBRL/SMIL^™
• CML (Chemical ML)/BML (Bean ML)
• Intros to BizTalk^™/SOAP^™/CDF/RDF

XML How to Program includes extensive pedagogic features:

• Hundreds of "live-code" programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
• Extensive World Wide Web and Internet resources to encourage further research
• Programming tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons

XML How to Program is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning how to build real, working XML-based systems, including Web sites (www.deitel.com and www.prenhall.com/deitel) with the book's code examples and other information for faculty, students and professionals; optional interactive CDROM (XML Multimedia Cyber Classroom) containing thousands of hyperlinks, text search, audio walkthroughs of the hundreds of code examples and solutions to about half the exercises in the book—and e-mail access to the authors at deitel@deitel.com

For information on worldwide corporate on-site seminars and Webbased training offered by Deitel & Associates, Inc., visit: www.deitel.com

For information on current and forthcoming Deitel/Prentice Hall publications including How to Program Series books, Multimedia Cyber Classrooms, Complete Training Courses (that include Deitel books and Cyber Classrooms) and Web-Based Training Courses please see the last few pages of this book.