Book Info
Provides three texts: The XML Handbook, XML by Example, and the XML and SGML Cookbook. Designed to help you build XML Web applications--skills, code, tools, and resources. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

From the Back Cover
Great tools from Microsoft®, Adobe®, Cold Fusion and more! The XML Web Kit: All you need to build XML Web applications NOW! *The XML Handbook™: The definitive reference-coauthored by SGML inventor Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb! *Just XML: Get started with XML fast! *XML by Example: Build a real-world E-commerce application! XML is taking off! Now, in one place, at one great price, here's all you need to build and deploy robust XML-based Web applications! XML Web Kit brings together three of the world's most authoritative, useful guides to XML, along with two CD-ROMs packed with the world's best XML trialware, shareware, freeware, sample code, information resources and more! *Starburst *Choose the perfect tools from this amazing XML software collection! *Right-hand column (images of covers to the left of the text) Deploy XML on the Web now! The XML Web Kit delivers 100% of the skills, techniques, software, sample code and resources you need! The XML Handbook: Discover what XML is and what it can do; then master the handful of vital concepts you must understand to get powerful results-fast! Then experience XML development through illustrated walk-throughs of hot new XML tools for e-commerce, content management, structuring, creation and presentation! Just XML: You don't need a Ph.D. to use XML! This book teaches you hands-on, with tons of practical examples. Master Xlink and Xpointers linking tools, Cascading Style Sheets, XSL, Document Type Definitions and much more. XML by Example: Build a complete XML-based E-commerce application, step by step, end-to-end-including both client- and server-side! Then take a close look at today's most exciting XML applications, including Channel Definition Format, Open Financial Exchange, Cold Fusion Markup Language and more! *Microsoft's free XML tools 55 top XML freeware packages *Adobe FrameMaker® + SGML Free Trial with XML Update *Cold Fusion Evaluation Edition *Trialware from virtually every XML vendor that matters...

About the Author
The XML Handbook: CHARLES F. GOLDFARB invented SGML, the international standard on which XML and HTML are based. Co-author PAUL PRESCOD is a leading XML consulting engineer who serves on the W3C team developing XML and Xlink. Just XML: JOHN E. SIMPSON is Distributed Systems Specialist and Webmaster for the City of Tallahassee, FL. He co-authored HTML for Fun and Profit (Prentice Hall PTR). XML by Example: SEAN McGRATH is a software engineer at Digitome Electronic Publishing and author of SGML for Software Engineers (Prentice Hall PTR).

ANNOTATION

Intended for novices or beginning XML programmers, this bundled kit helps you transition from HTML into the Extensible Markup Language (XML), the recently standardized markup language for Web documents. It consists of two tutorials and a reference. For best understanding, you should be familiar with HTML and Web publishing concepts.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Great tools from Microsoft(r), Adobe(r), Cold Fusion and more!

The XML Web Kit: All you need to build XML Web applications NOW!

The XML Handbook(tm): The definitive reference-coauthored by SGML inventor Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb!
Just XML: Get started with XML fast!
XML by Example: Build a real-world E-commerce application!

XML is taking off! Now, in one place, at one great price, here's all you need to build and deploy robust XML-based Web applications! XML Web Kit brings together three of the world's most authoritative, useful guides to XML, along with two CD-ROMs packed with the world's best XML trialware, shareware, freeware, sample code, information resources and more!

Starburst
Choose the perfect tools from this amazing XML software collection!
Right-hand column (images of covers to the left of the text)

Deploy XML on the Web now! The XML Web Kit delivers 100% of the skills, techniques, software, sample code and resources you need!

The XML Handbook: Discover what XML is and what it can do; then master the handful of vital concepts you must understand to get powerful results-fast! Then experience XML development through illustrated walk-throughs of hot new XML tools for e-commerce, content management, structuring, creation and presentation!

Just XML: You don't need a Ph.D. to use XML! This book teaches you hands-on, with tons of practical examples. Master Xlink and Xpointers linking tools, Cascading Style Sheets, XSL, Document Type Definitions and much more.

XML by Example: Build a complete XML-based E-commerce application, step by step, end-to-end-including both client- and server-side! Then take a close look at today's most exciting XML applications, including Channel Definition Format, Open Financial Exchange, Cold Fusion Markup Language and more!