If you''re a developer working with XML, you know there''s a lot to know about XML, and the XML space is evolving almost moment by moment. But you don''t need to commit every XML syntax, API, or XSLT transformation to memory; you only need to know where to find it. And if it''s a detail that has to do with XML or its companion standards, you''ll find it--clear, concise, useful, and well-organized--in the updated third edition ofXML in a Nutshell.WithXML in a Nutshellbeside your keyboard, you''ll be able to:
- Quick-reference syntax rules and usage examples for the core XML technologies, including XML, DTDs, Xpath, XSLT, SAX, and DOM
- Develop an understanding of well-formed XML, DTDs, namespaces, Unicode, and W3C XML Schema
- Gain a working knowledge of key technologies used for narrative XML documents such as web pages, books, and articles technologies like XSLT, Xpath, Xlink, Xpointer, CSS, and XSL-FO
- Build data-intensive XML applications
- Understand the tools and APIs necessary to build data-intensive XML applications and process XML documents, including the event-based Simple API for XML (SAX2) and the tree-oriented Document Object Model (DOM)