Communicating with XML

Airi Salminen, Frank Tompa, “Communicating with XML” Spr….r | 2011-12-01 | ISBN: 1461409918 | 237 pages | PDF | 11,5 MB This book provides extensive insight into the possibilities and challenges of XML in building new information management solutions in networked organizations. After a brief introduction to Web communication features and XML fundamentals, the book examines the benefits of adopting XML and illustrates various types of XML use: XML in document management; XML for data-centric and multimedia components; XML as a format for metadata, including metadata for the Semantic Web; and XML in support of data interchange between software applications and among organizations. The challenges of adopting XML in large-scale information management are also discussed. In addition, applications across a broad spectrum are examined and numerous case studies pertaining to the adoption...

Advances in Information Retrieval

Giambattista Amati, Claudio Carpineto, Giovanni Romano – Advances in Information Retrieval Publisher: Sрringer | 2007-04-19 | ISBN: 3540714944 | PDF | 759 pages | 7.73 MB This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2007, held in Rome, Italy in April 2007. The 42 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with 3 keynote talks and 21 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 article submissions and 72 poster paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theory and design, efficiency, peer-to-peer networks, result merging, queries, relevance feedback, evaluation, classification and clustering, filtering, topic identification, expert finding, XML IR, Web IR, and multimedia IR.

Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML

Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML By Serge Abiteboul, Peter Buneman, Dan Suciu Publisher: Mo,.rg,.an Ka,,uf..ma–nn 2000 | 258 Pages | ISBN: 155860622X | PDF | 3 MB Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML is an examination of XML as a universal data transfer language and the theory behind the merging of the document-centric Web with a data-driven infrastructure. The book is intended as a textbook analysis of the issues, as well as background material for tool developers and others interested in the serious architectural details.Aimed at readers already familiar with database concepts, the book includes little introductory material. It quickly lays out the concepts of self-describing semi-structured data and how XML fits into this approach to data representation. The discussion deals...

DITA Best Practices

Book Description The Start-to-Finish, Best-Practice Guide to Implementing and Using DITA  Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is today’s most powerful toolbox for constructing information. By implementing DITA, organizations can gain more value from their technical documentation than ever before. Now, three DITA pioneers offer the first complete roadmap for successful DITA adoption, implementation, and usage.

XSLT Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for XML and XSLT Developers by S...

XSLT Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for XML and XSLT Developers by Sal Mangano  Publisher: O’Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596009747 | edition 2005 | CHM | 751 pages | 1,2 mb Forget those funky robot toys that were all the rage in the ’80s, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformations) is the ultimate transformer. This powerful language is expert at transforming XML documents into PDF files, HTML documents, JPEG files–virtually anything your heart desires. As useful as XSLT is, though, most people have a difficult time learning its many peculiarities.

Secure XML: The New Syntax for Signatures and Encryption by Donald E. ...

Secure XML: The New Syntax for Signatures and Encryption by Donald E. Eastlake  Publisher: Pearson Education | ISBN: 0201756056 | edition 2002 | CHM | 560 pages | 1,4 mb As XML is more broadly used in both web sites and business applications, the need to insure security of XML based applications grows. Most books on XML have at best a chapter devoted to security issues, and there is only one other book currently on the market devoted exclusively to XML Security. This book will show developers all they need to know about how to use XML Digital Signatures to protect the integrity and authenticity of data, and how to use XML Encryption to control its confidentiality.

Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET

Applied XML Programming for Microsoft .NET Publisher: Microsoft Press | ISBN: 0735618011 | edition 2002 | PDF | 537 pages | 6,9 mb XML is buried everywhere in the Microsoft .NET Framework, but effective XML parsing and coding in .NET requires adjustment. This book describes the set of XML core classes in .NET, introduces the .NET XML parsing model and how to program against it, and discusses XML readers and writers and XMLDOM. It examines related technologies such as schemas, transformations, and XPath, and it discusses data issues such as synchronization and serialization, the DiffGram format, and the XML extensions in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. This Microsoft Press title also reveals how to get the best performance from XML with .NET, and it...

Real World XML by Steven Holzner

Real World XML by Steven Holzner Publisher: New Riders Publishing | ISBN: 0735712867 | 2003 | CHM | 1200 pages | 7,94 mb Updated to cover all the new and exciting features in XML, Inside XML, Second Edition, is the foundational book any developer or programmer will need. Full of thousands of real world examples, this book covers the latest developments in XML such as: web services (Soap, etc.), the newest update to the Schema specification, Java and XML support, New IE6 and Netscape 6 XML features, the latest changes with XSLT and XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO), Wireless Markup Language, XML and JavaScript, all the latest in W3C specs on XML, XLink, XPointer, XPath, etc., and more! As with the previous edition, Inside...

XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web

XML Topic Maps: Creating and Using Topic Maps for the Web Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional | ISBN: 0201749602 | edition 2002 | PDF | 498 pages | 6,9 mb This developer’s overview and how-to book provides a complete introduction and application guide to the world of topic maps, the powerful new means of navigating the World Wide Web. Softcover. The explosive growth of the World Wide Web is fueling the need for a new generation of technologies for managing information flow, data, and knowledge. This developer’s overview and how-to book provides a complete introduction and application guide to the world of topic maps, a powerful new means of navigating the World Wide Web’s vast sea of information.

Using XML: Special Edition

Using XML: Special Edition Publisher: Que | ISBN: 0789719967 | edition 2000 | PDF | 652 pages | 5,6 mb The book delves into the programming realm–where its strength lies, incidentally–after a couple of obligatory “Intro to XML” chapters. Because XML, being a comparatively simple language, is more frequently about understanding when or why to use a particular feature than how, there is comparatively little code (though there’s certainly enough of it to go around).

Umbraco User’s Guide

Umbraco User’s Guide Book Description The first guide to show you how to power your site using Umbraco.More companies are turning to the power and simplicity of Umbraco’s web content management system to build robust, customized sites. Written by leaders in the Umbraco community, this invaluable guide takes you through every aspect of this open source tool. Code samples using XHTML, CSS, XSLT, and C# are integrated throughout the pages to illustrate key concepts that you can apply. As you work through the chapters, you’ll progress from building a basic Umbraco site to a sophisticated one that meets the needs of your organization.

Beyond Schemas: Planning Your XML Model

Book Description Have you ever wondered how to get started writing your own schema? As you prepare to create your schema, you must consider a number of factors. This guide explains each of those factors in detail and recommends an approach for documenting your schema development plan in an information model. Your information model can not only be used as a planning mechanism to develop your schema but can also be used as a training resource and as a reference guide for those using the schema after it is developed. By putting a well-thought-out information model in place, you are bound to produce a schema that you can use indefinitely and build upon easily.

XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Book Description If you’re a developer working with XML, you know there’s a lot to know about XML, and the XML space is evolving almost moment by moment. But you don’t need to commit every XML syntax, API, or XSLT transformation to memory; you only need to know where to find it. And if it’s a detail that has to do with XML or its companion standards, you’ll find it–clear, concise, useful, and well-organized–in the updated third edition of XML in a Nutshell.

XML: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd Edition

Book Description What is XML? XML, or eXtensible Markup Language, is a specification for storing information. It is also a specification for describing the structure of that information. And while XML is a markup language (just like HTML), XML has no tags of its own. It allows the person writing the XML to create whatever tags they need. The only condition is that these newly created tags adhere to the rules of the XML specification.

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design

Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design By Dan Cederholm, Ethan Marcotte Publisher: Ne.w Rid.ers Pre.ss 2009 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0321643380 | PDF | 43 MB There’s a real connection between craftsmanship and Web design. That’s the theme running through Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, by bestselling author Dan Cederholm, with a chapter contributed by renowned Web designer and developer Ethan Marcotte. This book explores CSS3 that works in today’s browsers, and you’ll be convinced that now’s the time to start experimenting with it.

Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML (Pro-Developer)

Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML (Pro-Developer) Publisher: Microsoft Press | ISBN: 0735613699 | edition 2001 | CHM | 277 pages | 10,7 mb 25-Word Description This title gives developers the expert guidance they need to build powerful, XML-enabled database applications for line-of-business, e-commerce, and the Web. 75-Word Description Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the lingua franca of business information exchange. This book gives developers the expert guidance they need to build powerful, XML-enabled database applications for line-of-business, e-commerce, and the Web. The author steps through the development of several real-world solutions, including enterprise knowledge-management systems and ultra-scalable electronic retail and business-to-business (B2B) solutions.

Web Design in a Nutshell

Web Design in a Nutshell Publisher: O’Reilly Media | ISBN: 0596001967 | edition 2001 | PDF | 678 pages | 13 mb Niederst discusses everything a web designer needs, from basic principles and HTML to designing for multiple browsers, cascading style sheets, and XML. For a working web designer this book will be an invaluable quick reference, and it is written well enough that someone just starting out on the web could also use it. Highly recommended for all libraries.

XSLT Programmer’s Reference

Publisher: Peer Informatio | ISBN: 1861005067 | edition 2001 | CHM | 800 pages | 19,1 mb Written by a true expert in the field, Michael Kay’s XSLT, Second Edition is a thorough and truly informative guide to using XSLT and XML for real projects. With plenty of in-depth information on current standards and tools, this tutorial and reference is all any working developer needs to implement XSLT-based applications effectively. The book is remarkable in its wide-ranging perspective on XML and XSLT, plus it contains a complete reference to all elements and keywords used in XSLT and XPath. The author has created his own open-source implementation of XSLT and thus writes knowledgeably about all current XML standards. Early sections explain the larger strategies of using XSLT to transform XML data for browsers...

Programming Microsoft LINQ in Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Book Description Dig into LINQ — and transform the way you work with data. With LINQ, you can query data from a variety of sources — including databases, objects, and XML files — directly from Microsoft Visual Basic® or C#. Guided by data-access experts who’ve worked in depth with LINQ and the Microsoft development teams, you’ll learn how .NET Framework 4 implements LINQ, and how to exploit it. Clear examples show you how to deliver your own data-access solutions faster and with leaner code.