“Corporate Portals Empowered with XML and Web Services is a must-read for those planning or developing a corporate portal for their organization. The book provides both technical and business management insight into the issues both groups face. This is key to a truly integrated system. Guruge’s use of real world examples makes this a lesson in practicality, not simply another book on theory.”David Johnson, Cisco Systems

“My recommendation for any business, regardless of what industry it is in, is to take a very serious look at portals and the business benefits offered. It is too risky to ignore this area of Web technology. This book provides the best starting point I can think of for getting an understanding of the many facets associated with portals and their relevance to modern businesses.”Stuart McIrvine, Program Director, Market Management, WebSphere Integration Middleware, IBM

With XML AND SOAP PROGRAMMING FOR BIZTALK SERVERS, enterprise developers get the work-ready information and tools they need to help their organizations meet the challenge of doing business in ‘Internet time’. Author Brian Travis-a highly regarded XML instructor and solutions developer-offers expert guidance for building real-world, business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce applications using XML and BizTalk. This practical, code-rich book begins with an overview of XML in the B2B context, including coverage of XSL and industry schemas. Readers then dive into the BizTalk framework for application integration, stepping through the development of a working BizTalk server application. All the book’s code is featured on CD-ROM so programmers can see what the syntax looks like and better comprehend the intricacies of implementing BizTalk solutions; the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 Technical Preview helps expedite development of their own B2B applications. Case study discussions and a summary of references help round out the reader’s understanding of technological and business considerations.

XSLT Quickly is, quite obviously, for anyone who needs to learn XSLT quickly. This book has two main goals: to familiarize the reader with the portions of XSLT that he/she will use eighty per cent of the time, and to provide a “cookbook” approach to learning additional techniques as they are needed.Part One is a step-by-step tutorial that brings the reader up to speed on the basic concepts and document manipulation techniques necessary for the most common XSLT tasks. More importantly, it represents the foundation on which the understanding of everything in Part Two is built.

Part Two is a cookbook–a task-oriented user’s guide to various issues one may meet in tackling XSLT. This portion of the book is organized by the goals of XSLT tasks (converting elements to attributes, reading in multiple documents at once, etc.). This makes it far easier for readers who don’t already know XSLT to quickly find the solutions to their stylesheet development problems.

Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution reports recent advances in applications of two popularly used languages, UML and XML, in the field of software evolution. This book covers topics such as: visualizing legacy systems with UML, augmenting UML to support the design and evolution of user interfaces, migration of persistent object models using XML and much more. Advances in UML and XML-Based Software Evolution brings many specialists’ views into one comprehensive text for all academic researchers and industrial practitioners to learn more about these languages.

This is the book every C# developer needs to read to understand how to create effective Internet applications using ASP.NET. As recognized experts in the field, Jeffrey P. McManus and Chris Kinsman explain how to build applications through effective use of ASP.NET, XML, and ADO.NET.
In addition, this book will provide:

• Information
  about the Common Language Runtime and .NET Foundation Classes, which
  form the building blocks for application development in the .NET
  universe
• Practical C# code examples that illustrate operations used most often by
• application developers
• Thorough reference material to the objects available in the Foundation
• Class libraries

The combination of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and its related interlinking standards bring a range of exciting possibilities to the realm of Internet content management. This practical reference book documents these critical standards, shifting theory into practice for today’s developers who are creating tomorrow’s useful, efficient, and information-rich applications and Web sites.

The third edition of Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit
is everything you need to know about the XML language and how to use it
in practical, innovative applications. Understanding the syntax of XML
is only a small part of the learning process; understanding how to
apply it is the larger part of the learning process, and is the primary
focus of this book. It covers a broad range of topics, and wil show you
how to use XML to mine data on the web, how to use it to interact with
existing data services such as iTunes and Google, and how to use it in
applications such as e-books, online speech synthesis, and multimedia. Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit, Third Edition will teach you what you need to know to get up and running with XML and more importantly, how to do cool things with it!

The foundation for most Web services, XML can also be used with ASP.NET to display data from an infinite variety of sources in a Web site After covering the basics, the book explores the many ways that XML documents can be created, transformed, and transmitted to other systems using ASP.NET 2.0 Two major case studies address issues such as reading and writing XML data, XML data validation, transforming XML Data with XSLT, SQL Server XML integration, XML support in ADO.NET, and XML Web Services

See how XML works for business needs and RSS feeds Create consistency
on the Web, or tag your data for different purposes Tag XML is it! XML
tags let you share your format as well as your data, and this handy
guide will show you how. You’ll soon be using this markup language to
create everything from Web sites to business forms, discovering schemas
and DOCTYPES, wandering the Xpath, teaming up XML with Office 2003, and
more. Discover how to Make information portable Use XML with Word 2003
Store different types of data Convert HTML documents to XHTML Add CSS
to XML Understand and use DTDs

The emergence of XML is having an enormous impact on Web development, and scaling the learning curve of this new technology is a priority for many developers. The XML Bible offers a superb introduction to the subject and the groundwork to understand XML’s future developments.

Author Elliotte Rusty Harold uses a patient, step-by-step discussion that clearly points out the potential of XML without boring his readership with tons of SGML spec-speak. Harold opens quickly with a “Hello World” example to get the reader coding early, and follows that with a simple but powerful example of XML’s data management benefits–presenting baseball statistics. Once you’ve coded your first XML documents, you’ll be hooked on the technology and motivated to learn about the more sophisticated topics.

Style sheet languages are covered comprehensively to illustrate the presentation
possibilities and pitfalls. An unusually long list of real-life XML applications also shows how XML is already being used, and there is in-depth coverage of the Resource Description Framework, Channel
Definition Format, and Vector Markup Language. The book wraps up with a section that helps you design your own XML application from scratch.