Elliotte Rusty Harold Bücher

For developers working with XML, staying updated on the evolving landscape is crucial. You don’t need to memorize every detail; instead, knowing where to find the information is key. The updated third edition of this reference guide offers clear, concise, and well-organized insights into XML and its companion standards. With it at your side, you can quickly reference syntax rules and usage examples for core XML technologies, including DTDs, XPath, XSLT, SAX, and DOM. You’ll develop an understanding of well-formed XML, namespaces, Unicode, and W3C XML Schema, while gaining knowledge of technologies essential for narrative XML documents, such as web pages and articles. The guide also helps you build data-intensive XML applications and understand the necessary tools and APIs for processing XML documents, including SAX2 and DOM. This edition serves as a comprehensive reference, covering everything from fundamental syntax to DTD and XML Schema creation, XSLT transformations, and APIs for processing XML. It includes updates on XML 1.1, SAX2, and DOM Level 3. Whether you need a detailed explanation of a technology or quick access to specific syntax, this guide is an essential resource for any XML developer.

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This fast-paced and thorough tutorial/reference contains everything an experienced web developer needs to put XML to work on established or new web sites. The book covers the fundamentals of the XML language, with emphasis on the creation of XML pages and their publication on the Web; the integration of XML with HTML, databases, and scripting languages to build complex applications; Cascading Style Sheets and XSL Transformation; and supplemental technologies such as XLinks and XPointers.

All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. Focusing on Java 5.0 APIs, this book tells you about streams shows you how to control number formatting, use characters aside from the standard ASCII character set, and write multilingual software.

A guide to developing network programs covers networking fundamentals as well as TCP and UDP sockets, multicasting protocol, content handlers, servlets, I/O, parsing, Java Mail API, and Java Secure Sockets Extension.