System Architecture with XML

XML is bringing together some fairly disparate groups into a new cultural clash: document developers trying to understand what a transaction is, database analysts getting upset because the relational model doesn't fit anymore, and web designers having to deal with schemata and rule based transformations. The key to rising above the confusion is to understand the different semantic structures that lie beneath the standards of XML, and how to model the semantics to achieve the goals of the organization.  
A pure architecture of XML doesn't exist yet, and it may never exist as the underlying technologies are so diverse. Still, the key to understanding how to build the new web infrastructure for electronic business lies in understanding the landscape of these new standards.  
If your background is in document processing, this book will show how you can use conceptual modeling to model business scenarios consisting of business objects, relationships, processes, and transactions in a document-centric way. Database designers will learn if XML is subject to relational normalization and how this fits in with the hierarchical structure of XML documents. Web designers will discover that XML puts them into a position to automatically generate visually pleasing web pages and rich multimedia shows from otherwise dry product catalogues by using XSLT and other transformation tools. Business architects will see how XML can help them to define applications that can be quickly adapted the ever changing requirements of the market.

Contents

Foreword. Preface. Scenario. Groundwork. Structure. Meaning. Modeling Processes. History. Hypermedia. Presentation Formats. Transformation. Infrastructure. Solutions. Glossary. Bibliography.  

XML正在將一些相當不同的群體帶入一場新的文化衝突中：文件開發人員試圖理解交易是什麼，資料庫分析師因為關聯模型不再適用而感到不滿，網頁設計師必須處理架構和基於規則的轉換。超越混亂的關鍵在於理解XML標準背後的不同語義結構，以及如何將語義建模以實現組織的目標。純粹的XML架構尚不存在，並且由於底層技術如此多樣，可能永遠不會存在。然而，理解如何構建用於電子商務的新網絡基礎設施的關鍵在於理解這些新標準的情況。如果您的背景是文件處理，本書將展示如何使用概念建模以文件為中心的方式建模由業務對象、關係、流程和交易組成的業務場景。資料庫設計師將了解XML是否適用於關聯規範化，以及這如何與XML文檔的階層結構相關。網頁設計師將發現XML使他們能夠通過使用XSLT和其他轉換工具從乾燥的產品目錄自動生成視覺上令人愉悅的網頁和豐富的多媒體展示。業務架構師將看到XML如何幫助他們定義應用程序，以便能夠快速適應市場不斷變化的需求。

目錄：
前言。前言。情境。基礎工作。結構。意義。建模流程。歷史。超媒體。演示格式。轉換。基礎設施。解決方案。詞彙表。參考文獻。