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This book is for anyone working with today’s mainstream XML technologies. It was specifically designed to serve as a handy but thorough quick reference that answers the most common XML-related technical questions. It goes beyond the traditional pocket reference design by providing complete coverage of each topic along with plenty of meaningful examples. Each chapter provides a brief introduction, which is followed by the detailed reference information. This approach assumes the reader has a basic understanding of the given topic. The detailed outline (at the beginning), index (in the back), bleeding tabs (along the side), and the page headers/footers were designed to help readers quickly find answers to their questions.
Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer’s Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More
Definitive XML Schema
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This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.
The authoritative XML Schema reference and tutorial!
- Leverage the full power of XML Schema!
- In-depth coverage of the approved W3C Recommendation
- Schema design—practical and thorough
- Transition help for experienced DTD developers
- Authoritative! By Priscilla Walmsley—a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group
To leverage the full power of XML, companies need shared vocabularies to base their documents and scripts upon. XML Schema makes it possible to create those shared vocabularies-and Definitive XML Schema is the authoritative guide to the standard! Written by Priscilla Walmsley, a member of the W3C working group that created XML Schema, this book explains the W3C Recommendation with unprecedented insight and clarity—and introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any B2B, Web service, or content processing application. Coverage includes:
- How XML Schema provides a rigorous, complete standard for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes
- Working with schemas: Schema composition, instance validation, documentation, namespaces, and more
- XML Schema building blocks: elements, attributes, and types
- Advanced techniques: type derivation, model groups, substitution groups, identity constraints, redefinition, and much more
- An in-depth primer on effective schema design, including naming, document structure, and extensibility considerations
- Transition guidance for experienced DTD developers
Definitive XML Schema brings together expert guidance for schema design, superior approaches to schema development, and the most systematic XML Schema reference on the market. Whether you’re a developer, architect, or content specialist, it’s the only XML Schema resource you need!
“XML Schema is an incredibly powerful-and complex-document schema language, with such new capabilities as strong typing, modularity, inheritance, and identity constraints. This book guides you through the complexity so you can confidently use that power for your own projects.”
—Charles F. Goldfarb
XML Schema
- ISBN13: 9780596002527
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
If you need to create or use formal descriptions of XML vocabularies, the W3C’s XML Schema offers a powerful set of tools for defining acceptable document structures and content. An alternative to DTDs as the way to describe and validate data in an XML environment, XML Schema enables developers to create precise descriptions with a richer set of datatypes that are essential for today?s applications. While schemas are powerful, that power comes with substantial complexity. This concise book explains XML Schema foundations, a variety of different styles for writing schemas, simple and complex types, datatypes and facets, keys, extensibility, documentation, design choices, best practices, and limitations, with examples throughout. In addition, XML Schema provides a complete reference to all parts of both the XML Schema Structures and XML Schema Datatypes specifications, as well as a glossary. Appendices explore the relationships between XML Schema and other tools for describing document structures as well as work in progress at the W3C to more tightly integrate XML Schema with existing specifications.


