Practical XML for the Web - Tools of the trade

You've heard the hype and the excitement - now here's a book that brings practicality to the party. In context, but avoiding lengthy history lessons, we show you why XML is great to get into, and how to get up and running with it quickly. Using XML appropriately can make your markup future-proof and standards-compliant, enhance accessibility and usability, and allow data to be shared between almost any language/platform combinations and rendered in any future browsers.

This book teaches you everything you need to know about using XML effectively in your work today, ommitting endless pages of theory, history lessons, and as-yet-unsupported standards and technologies.

Contents

1. Introduction to XML
2. Web Vocabularies
3. Client-side XML - Browser Support for XML
4. Displaying XML Using CSS
5. Introduction to XSLT
6. Advanced Client-Side XSLT Techniques
7. Scripting in the Browser
8. Introduction To Server-Side XML
9. Case Study: Using ASP for an XML- and XSLT-Driven Site
10. Case Study: Displaying XML Data in Flash Using JSP
11. Case Study: Displaying XML from a MySQL Database Using PHP & XSLT