![]() To that end, I will assume you know how to ftp files, send email, and load URLs in your Web browser of choice. XML does build on HTML and the underlying infrastructure of the Internet. None of the tricks require any programming. None of the software in this book will cost you more than a few minutes of download time. You'll be amazed to discover that in conjunction with style sheets and a few free tools, XML lets you do things that previously required either custom software costing hundreds to thousands of dollars per developer or extensive knowledge of programming languages like Perl. I assume you want to use XML to produce Web sites that are difficult to impossible to create with raw HTML. This book is aimed squarely at Web site developers. Instead it shows you how you can use XML and existing tools today to more efficiently and productively produce attractive, exciting, easy-to-use, easy-to-maintain Web sites that will keep your readers coming back for more. ![]() It doesn't spend a lot of pages talking about BNF grammars or parsing element trees. Unlike most other XML books on the market, The XML Bible covers XML not from the perspective of a software developer but rather that of a Web page author. And finally, you'll learn about the many uses of XML beyond the Web site, including genealogy, subscription services, mathematics, vector graphics, and more.Īfter reading this book I hope you'll agree with me that XML is the most exciting development on the Internet since Java, and that it makes Web site development easier, more productive, and more fun. You'll also learn how to use XML technologies like RDF, XLinks, XHTML, and namespaces to add structure and organization to your document collections. Validate them with DTDs, design CSS and XSL style sheets for those documents,Īnd publish them on Web servers for the world to read. The XML Bible is a comprehensive introduction to using XML for Web page design. Three-dimensional "XML" you see to the left. The second edition has a robot on the cover instead of the If you're buying a new copy, you'll want to make sure you get the second edition or the Gold edition. They're completely up-to-date with the state of the art in XML as of 2001. ![]() With huge amounts of new and updated material. Both are much improved over the first edition However, if you want the most current information, ![]() (A few actually use a manuscript from in-between the first and second editions.) ![]() I'm keeping this page here to support readers who bought the first edition, as well as for readers of translations, since most of the translations are still based on the first edition. Update: The second edition of the XML Bible has been published. | French Translation/Traduction en Francais ![]()
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