The Definitive XML Professional Toolkit

Summary

Three advanced XML technology guides at one great price!

What you need to design and build next-generation web applications!

• Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook, 4th Edition: The world's #1 XML resource, revised and enlarged to cover the latest standards and trends-with 2 CD-ROMs packed with 175 free XML software packages!
• Definitive XML Schema: End-to-end coverage of XML Schema, with powerful new techniques for designing and writing effective schemas
• Definitive XSLT and XPath: From the basics to the most powerful techniques: expressions, data models, processing models, transformation, formatting, stylesheet management, and more

This boxed set gives experienced XML developers breakthrough skills for building next-generation XML solutions! Three outstanding new books-all written by world-class experts, all edited by Charles F. Goldfarb, the "father of markup languages"—and all brought together at one great price!

Charles F. Goldfarb's XML Handbook

Charles F. Goldfarb and Paul Prescod

100,000 copies in print in six languages! The world's XML developers, managers, consultants, and investors rely on The XML Handbook for unparalleled insight into XML technologies and applications. Now, it's revised to cover the newest trends, techniques, and standards, including schemas, datatypes, XSLT, XSL-FO, XSDL, namespaces, topic maps, SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, VoiceXML! Covers key XML applications from Web services to content management, B2B to application integration—and now contains 2 CD-ROMs packed with 175 genuinely free software packages!

Definitive XML Schema

Priscilla Walmsley

In this book, a key member of the W3C committee that created XML Schema illuminates the entire specification and introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any B2B or content-processing application. Priscilla Walmsley introduces namespaces, schema composition, instances, documentation, extension, elements, attributes, and types; presents expert coverage of advanced techniques; and offers an in-depth tutorial on effective schema design.

Definitive XSLT and XPath

G. Ken Holman

A world-renowned XSLT/XPath authority covers every keyfacet of the XSLT and XPath specifications-from the basics to advanced expressions, sorting, grouping, and more—drawn from his proven materials that have trained thousands of developers. In-depth coverage includes the XPath data model, the XSLT processing model, XML-to-HTML transformation, basic XSL formatting concepts, XSLT stylesheet management and process control, XLink, XML Query—even questions to ask XSLT/XPath tool vendors!

The Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series