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Beginning XML Paperback – Illustrated, 22 June 2012

by Joe Fawcett (Author), Danny Ayers (Author), Liam R. E. Quin (Author)
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A complete update covering the many advances to the XML language

The XML language has become the standard for writing documents on the Internet and is constantly improving and evolving. This new edition covers all the many new XML-based technologies that have appeared since the previous edition four years ago, providing you with an up-to-date introductory guide and reference. Packed with real-world code examples, best practices, and in-depth coverage of the most important and relevant topics, this authoritative resource explores both the advantages and disadvantages of XML and addresses the most current standards and uses of XML.

  • Features the most updated content built on audience feedback from the previous edition as well as the vast knowledge from XML developer teams
  • Boasts new chapters on RELAX NG and Schematron, XML functionality in databases, LINQ to XML, Jabber and XMLPP, XHTML, HTML5, and more
  • Offers in-depth coverage on extracting data from XML and updated material on Web Services

Beginning XML, Fifth Edition delivers the most important aspects of XML in regard to what it is, how it works, what technologies surround it, and how it can best be used in a variety of situations.

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Joe Fawcett is the head of software at Kaplan Financial and was one of the first Microsoft MVPs for XML.

Liam R. E. Quin is the W3C XML Activity Lead and Staff Contact for the XML Query Working Group, and the XSL-FO subgroup of the XSL Working Group.

Danny Ayers works for Talis on applications for their hosted semantic web platform.

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Dive into the key aspects of XML to deliver data on the web

From simple data transfers to providing multi-channeled content, there's so much you can do with XML and this guide will get you started. It walks you through everything you need to know about this powerful language, including what it is, how it works, what technologies accompany it, and how you can apply it. You'll quickly discover how to manipulate XML documents, store XML in databases, extract data, utilize web services, and even use it for web page and image display. With the help of a case study, you'll even learn how to apply this information to give your programming a boost.

Beginning XML, 5th Edition

  • Covers the goals of XML and the rules for constructing it
  • Explores different techniques that help you verify that the XML is in the correct format
  • Shows how to work with XQuery to create new XML documents and query existing data
  • Explains how to retrieve data using DOM, XPath, and LINQ to XML
  • Examines programming techniques specifically designed to cope with large documents
  • Details how to present data for use by different systems
  • Demonstrates a realistic XML pipeline used in a publishing business

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that guides you through all the techniques involved.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wrox; 5th edition (22 June 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 864 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781118162132
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1118162132
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.8 x 5.08 x 23.62 cm
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    I'm originally from Tideswell, Derbyshire but now live in rural Italy, with two dogs and two cats.

    I generally do independent Web research and development, in particular things related to Linked Data and the Semantic Web.

    Outside of tech stuff I like woodcarving - bit of a medieval throwback really...

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    Liam Quin is the XML Activity Lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the publishers of the XML specification itself.

    Liam has worked with XML, and with its ancestor SGML, since 1987, and with digital typography and text formatting since 1982. Before joining W3C, his consulting clients included Wiley, Open Text and Bombardier; he also worked at SoftQuad Inc. in Toronto.

    Liam is an experienced speaker and trainer, and also consults on XML projects. He contributed six chapters to Beginning XML (Wrox, 2012). He's known for going barefoot in public places, having a long unruly beard, and signs himself the Barefoot Typographer.

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Albertazzi Angelo
5.0 out of 5 stars Molto dettagliato
Reviewed in Italy on 23 April 2017
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Questo testo analizza in modo dettagliato tutto ciò che concerne XML. Gli esempi sono numerosi, semplici ed utilissimi. Altamente consigliato.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly the "Bible" of the most important applications
Reviewed in the United States on 20 October 2012
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Nearly 900 pages for $23 bucks? These folks live in the real world of budgets! The promo material on this text says that XML is for "document handling." Well, that's correct in some senses, but XML is far more important than that-- it's a little more than a Xerox machine with a network chip. It actually is about information management and standards. If you're an educator, you've likely run into Bill Clinton's (infamous?) SCORM standards, which in a nutshell, tell e-learning folks about the XML files they need to generate to follow certain rules. If you get into it deeply, you'll see the rules are about assuming folks are dishonest, and making sure it's Jimmy taking that online exam, not Joanie.

If you know a little HTML, that's all you really need to get started here. The authors step us through with a very nice pace, building on each section without assuming we're already HTML or CSS experts. Remember, XML is a document storage, transmission and management STANDARD, NOT a "display" language where you can add some tags and "go bold." In fact, XML has to depend on other languages to do everything else around it's standard-- and doesn't even have "native" tags. If you're turning your website into a database or search driven document behemoth, you'll likely be investing in LINQ, SQL and PDF conversions from and to XML to make your system work.

There are a couple other books out there on XML, but they are outdated. This 5th Edition has ALL the latest "plug ins" surrounding XML, and without them you'd really be out of date! SEO folks will love this, because it takes the usual "Google secret Numerical Analysis" formulas and raises them a step up to sleek compliance details that will optimize how the spiders see your pages. Like the donkey, if you don't whack the spider on the head with compliance and best info practices first, who cares how great the metas are if it doesn't look at them?

Who else? ANYONE whose life is data management intensive. I'm CTO at a worldwide Body of Knowledge DBMS firm (iabok dot org) and our daily routine includes HUGE documents, and is all about Taxonomy and data management, storage and retrieval. So, here's a list: Publishers, Lawyers, Educators, SEO folk, Web Designers, Archivists, Librarians, ISPs, Internet semantics folk, Search folk, Router and Network folk, Global CFO's required to report in XBRL/XML to SEC by 2013... etc.

Ontology in philosophy is about whether things are real or not, in DBMS it's about filters-- what we accept and reject, and why. XML was created assuming that someday information would become so massive, we'd need a special language just to direct traffic. Someday is here. People creating the best data driven web services don't use XML because they "have to" to comply with standards that the spiders like, they do so because it is a ROCKING language that handles huge chunks of info very efficiently when you surround it with it's favorite tools. XML also is the "heart" of many other X languages (like the aforementioned XBRL), which use it's attributes to populate their namespace ISO's, schemas and even rule details.

This book will meet your needs even if you only "have" to use XML due to a standard, but will also be really helpful and enjoyable if you also are trying to get or stay up to date on best practices not only for the "right" way to do things, but also the most enjoyable, efficient and effective. Out in IT land those two rarely go together, but in XML land, with texts like this to show us the links, they do.

Written clearly enough for self study, but would also make a great text for a course. Would you skim, read, study or refer to this? With a lot of HTML knowledge-- skim and refer, as a beginner, read and study, then skim and refer as you grow. Yep, definitely works for more than one narrow audience.
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F. Jerome
3.0 out of 5 stars Livre complet mais déconcertant
Reviewed in France on 20 August 2013
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Ce bouquin est très complet mais il est souvent déconcertant.
Dans les premiers chapitres, l'auteur explique en début de chapitre N pourquoi le chapitre N - 1 qu'on vient de se cogner ne sert à rien ! Et il nous fait le coup de deux ou trois fois : Par exemple, le chapitre qui suit celui sur les XML schémas nous apprend que les XML schéma ne servent pratiquement plus à rien !
Autre soucis, la pédagogie est très américaine. On ne part pas du cas général pour descendre finement dans le cas particulier. On déroule les chapitres un par un froidement pour ne pas dire bêtement.
Bref, ce bouquin est un pensum technique, efficace comme référence mais peu pédagogique a mon goût.
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Say No More 67
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, up to date, with good potential of not loosing it's relevance
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2012
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It's almost impossible nowadays to be in the IT industry without having to deal with XML files.

Whatever you do, be it DBA, software developer, system, web designer, or even a heavy Office user - sooner or later you'll have to acquire some knowledge of the subject.

XML is fast becoming a major underlying standard when dealing with interconnecting platforms, databases, programming languages, applications - you name it. It looks like it's here to stay for a long time, so if you're making a living from any of the above mentioned fields - you'd better add it to your list of skills.

While this book is certainly not one to be read cover to cover, and probably not all implementations are relevant to everyone, I felt that the subjects which interested me were presented in a very clear and methodical manner.

A short look at the Index and Table of Contents available with the "Look Inside" feature reveals the scope of this more than 800 pages book.

Published in July 2012 - it's covering up-to-date technologies and products that coincide with XML, and as it's a 5th edition the errata section on the publishers site was reduced to 0. Mentioning the publishers site - it contains 20 download files for each of the chapters on the book, to be used both in the "Try it Out" sections and the exercises at the end of it.

I feel that this book will stay relevant for a long time and won't become obsolete as quickly as so many other computer related books nowadays.

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Added July 13 2014 from my reply to TREX's comment:
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From the many computer books that I own, it's one of the few that rarely returns to the shelf, and the amount of bookmarks that pop out of it make it look like a hedgehog.
It's well constructed, and the subjects are clearly explained, with every "Try it Out" section followed by a clear "How it Works", and over the almost two years I own it I still haven't come across any errata, poor grammar or bad writing that the book is supposed to be riddled with according to your post.

I think the book does a very good job of presenting the covered topics and referring when needed to other sources, which is exactly what should be expected from a book , in contrast with web searches.

One example I can give is with SQL interaction:
If you look for a way to export a SQL query to XML, and look for information on the web or MS-SQL BOL, you'll probably end up with many not so simple examples and explanations. Reading on this subject in the book will guide you from the extremely simple option of simply adding "FOR XML RAW" to your query to the more complex EXPLICIT option, and then refer the reader for more details on BOL.

I'll remind again that I refer to the the fifth printed edition from 2012, and not the kindle edition,although I believe there's not much difference.

I also can't compare this book with other books on the subject, as I haven't had the chance to read any of the available ones, mainly because I found this one covered well the scope from simple to advanced.
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