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XML: Introduction to Applied XML: Technologies in Business
William G. Wagner, Villanova University
Ralph Hilken, Artige Company

ISBN-10: 0130338540
ISBN-13:  9780130338549

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  2003
Format:  Paper; 600 pp
Published:  09/05/2002
Status: Out of Print


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For courses in Internet/World Wide Web, Java—Intro to Programming/CS1, Web Programming and Design, HTML, XML, and Internet Survey.

  • An introduction to the markup technology of XML, this text covers its features and abilities as well as explains the strategic importance for developing web-based applications. It:
  • 1) helps students envision how XML can be used to gain a competitive advantage in e-commerce,
  • 2) offers substantial hands-on experience in using and understanding the workings of XML,
  • 3) clarifies confusing terminology that currently pervades the field, and
  • 4) encourages the development of more sophisticated e-commerce applications.
  • The book also shows students the many ways that XML based applications can be deployed, using available technologies and referring to anticipated developments based on work in progress.


Features

  • An emphasis on creative thinking.

    • Provides students with more than just a cookbook programming text, and challenges them to apply XML to typical EC scenarios.

  • Chapter-opening mini-cases—The framework that XML can be explained within.

    • Describes for students actual XML applications that have been taken from the professional press.

  • Chapter-end exercises—Features a set of three different threaded cases drawn from a variety of contexts.

    • Shows students how different types of organizations would apply the XML features described in each chapter.

  • Tutorials with a general XML theme—e.g. Data Content; Data Definitions; Data Output; and Parsing XML to Collect Data.

    • Serves students with progressive lessons and working examples that allow them to build their knowledge upon what they have learned previously.

  • A test bank.

    • Supplies instructors with a variety of different types of questions that enable them to check students' understanding of concepts.


Table of Contents



PREFACE.

I. XML BASICS.

XML in Action Case: New Life for an Old Application.

 1. Defining XML.

II. XML AND DATA CONTENT.

XML in Action Case: Warehouse Pick-List Application.

 2. XML Documents.

III. XML AND DATA DEFINITIONS.

XML in Action Case: Creating E-Chemical's InventoryML XML Vocabulary.

 3. Vocabularies and the DTD. 4. Advanced XML Data Definition Topics.

IV. XML AND DATA OUTPUT.

XML in Action Case: XML and E-Chemical's Enterprise Resource Planning System.

 5. Output Processing Concepts Using XML Technologies. 6. Simple Output Formatting. 7. Complex Output Formatting. 8. Advanced XSL Topics.

V. XML APPLICATIONS.

XML in Action Case: Choosing XML Technologies and Programming Methodologies.

 9. XML Application Basics.

VI. XML AND BUSINESS STRATEGY.

XML in Action Case: Switch from EDI to XML?

10. XML for Competitive Advantage.Appendices.Glossary of Terms.



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An Intelligent Approach to XML Applications,
not just another "cook book"
TEXT OVERVIEW

This text provides an introduction to the markup technology of XML, covers its features and abilities and explains the strategic importance for developing web-based applications. Additionally, the text:

  1. Helps students envision how XML can be used to gain a competitive advantage in e-commerce
  2. Provides substantial hands-on experience in using and understanding the workings of XML
  3. Clarifies confusing terminology that currently pervades the industry
  4. Encourages the development of more sophisticated e-commerce applications.
FEATURES/BENEFITS
  • An emphasis on creative thinking.
  • Provides students with more than just a cookbook programming text, and challenges them to apply XML to typical EC scenarios.
  • Chapter-opening mini-cases—The framework that XML can be explained within.
  • Describes for students actual XML applications that have been taken from the professional press.
  • Chapter-end exercises—Features a set of three different cases drawn from a variety of contexts.
  • Shows students how different types of organizations would apply the XML features described in each chapter.
  • Chapter-end discussion questions.
  • Offers students the opportunity to review their comprehension of key content in each chapter before moving on to the next one.
  • Tutorials with a general XML theme—e.g Data Content; Data Definitions; Data Output; and Parsing XML to Collect Data.
  • Serves students with progressive lessons and working examples that allow them to build their knowledge upon what they have learned previously.
INSTRUCTOR SUPPORT PACKAGE:
  • Instructors Resource CD contains two key components:
    (1) Instructors Resource Manual
    (2) Test Bank which supplies instructors with a variety of different types of questions that enable them to check students' understanding of key concepts.
  • Companion Website: Send your students to the web to complete various exercises, review questions, and to learn more about XML.
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