Acknowledgments. Introduction.
Part I: XML Basics.
Chapter 1. XML Syntax.
Chapter 2. XML Editors.
Part II: Presentation.
Chapter 3. XHTML and CSS.
Chapter 4. XFL-FO.
Part III: Defining Structure.
Chapter 5. Document Type Definitions.
Chapter 6. XML Schemas.
Chapter 7. RELAX NG.
Part IV: XML as Data.
Chapter 8. XSLT.
Chapter 9. XPath.
Chapter 10. XQuery.
Chapter 11. XML in the Data Tier.
Part V: Programming XML.
Chapter 12. XML Document Object Model (DOM).
Chapter 13. Simple API for XML (SAX).
Chapter 14. Ajax.
Chapter 15. XML and .NET.
Chapter 16. XML and Java.
Chapter 17. Dynamic Languages and XML.
Part VI: XML Services.
Chapter 18. RSS and Atom.
Chapter 19. Web Services.
Chapter 20. SOAP and WSDL.
Chapter 21. Advanced Web Services.
Chapter 22. REST.
Part VII: Applying XML.
Chapter 23. XML Form Development.
Chapter 24. Resource Description Framework.
Chapter 25. XML in Office Development.
Chapter 26. XAML.
Index.
Bill Evjen is an active proponent of .NET technologies and
community-based learning initiatives for .NET. He has been actively
involved with .NET since the first bits were released in 2000. In
the same year, Bill founded the St. Louis .NET User Group
(www.stlnet.org), one of the world's first such groups. Bill is
also the founder and former executive director of the International
.NET Association (www.ineta.org), which represents more than
450,000 members worldwide.
Based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Bill is an acclaimed author
(more than 13 books to date) and speaker on ASP.NET and XML Web
services. He has written or co-written Professional C# 2005;
Professional VB 2005; and the best-selling Professional ASP.NET
2.0, as well as ASP.NET Professional Secrets, XML Web Services for
ASP.NET, Web Services Enhancements: Understanding the WSE for
Enterprise Applications, Visual Basic .NET Bible, and more. In
addition to writing, Bill is a speaker at numerous conferences,
including DevConnections, VSLive, and TechEd. Along with these
items, Bill works closely with Microsoft as a Microsoft Regional
Director and he has received the Microsoft MVP designation for many
years.
Bill is the technical Architect for Lipper (www.lipperweb.com), a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Reuters, the international news and
financial services company. He graduated from Western Washington
University in Bellingham, Washington, with a Russian language
degree. When he isn't tinkering on the computer, he can usually be
found at his summer house in Toivakka, Finland. You can reach Bill
at evjen@yahoo.com. He presently keeps his weblog,
www.geekswithblogs.net/evjen. Kent Sharkey is an independent
consultant who lives and codes in the midst of the wilds of
Vancouver Island. Before going solo, Kent worked at Microsoft as a
technical Evangelist and Content Strategist, promoting the use of
.NET technologies. When not coding or writing, he's off hiking,
biking, or canoeing (or exploring the wilds of Azeroth). He shares
his house with his wife, Margaret, and two "8220;Children,"
Squirrel and Cica.
Thiru Thangarathinam is a Microsoft MVP who specializes in
architecting, designing, and developing distributed enterprise
class applications using .NET-related technologies. He is the
author of the books Professional ASP.NET 2.0 XML and Professional
ASP.NET 2.0 Databases from Wrox press and has coauthored a number
of books on .NET-related technologies. He is a frequent contributor
to leading technology-related online publications.
Michael Kay is widely known in the XML world as the developer of
the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor, and as the editor of the XSLT
2.0 specification. His Wrox books XSLT 2.0 Programmer’s Reference
and XPath 2.0 Programmer’s Reference are regarded as the definitive
guides to these languages. Michael runs his own company, Saxonica,
which develops the Saxon technology and provides support and
consultancy for XSLT and XQuery users. His background is as a
software designer creating database products for a mainframe
manufacturer. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a
Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading (UK). In his spare
time he sings and plays croquet.
Alessandro Vernet co-founded Orbeon in 1999, which makes Orbeon
Forms, an open source product to build and deploy sophisticated
forms on the Web. He is one of the authors of Professional Web 2.0
Programming and is a member of two W3C Working Groups: the XForms
and XML Processing Model Working Groups. Before co-founding Orbeon,
Alessandro was at Symantec as part of the VisualCafé team, working
on their next-generation RAD for web applications. He holds an
MS/CS from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne,
Switzerland, and since 1998 lives in the incredibly energetic
Silicon Valley.
Sam Ferguson is a Project Manager with API Software, a Microsoft
Gold Certified Partner, based in Glasgow, Scotland. Sam, who lives
in Ayrshire, specializes in SQL Server, Microsoft Office Server
System 2007, .NET, and all XML-related technologies. In what little
spare time he has, Sam enjoys playing golf and is an avid fan of
the Glasgow Rangers.
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