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Xml by Example: Building E-Commerce Applications (Charles F. Goldfarb Series on Open Information Management)
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About Xml By Example: Building E-Commerce Applications
Amazon.com Review Sean McGrath makes understanding XML simple by gently easing his readers into the topic. His overview discusses what XML is and how it differs philosophically from HTML without competing with it. This introduction shows why XML is generating such excitement and how it will be of great importance to electronic commerce. Next, McGrath demonstrates XML in action in an electronic-commerce environment. His conversational style leads the reader through what could be very dry topics, such as publishing databases with XML or using Channel Definition Format (CDF) to create a push-publishing channel. His friendly tone is all the handier in the section that examines XML and related standards. The final section looks at three e-commerce initiatives based on XML--Open Financial Exchange, Electronic Data Exchange, and Open Trading Protocol. An enclosed CD-ROM contains an excellent collection of XML e-commerce development tools and useful reference material. The book's editor, Charles Goldfarb, is the developer of SGML, the parent mark-up language upon which XML is based. --Elizabeth Lewis Product Description This book/CD ROM combo provides a overview of XML and illustrates its use in real world examples. It also presents details of XML standards and looks at how it can be used in tandem with its parent language SGML. Comparisons are made throughout the book with the well-known HTML language that dominates the world-wide web today. XML technologies built into Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and examples of building XML utility applications in the Perl, Python, and Java programming languages are also covered. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. From Library Journal This is the best introduction of the four. The author writes well and begins with a gentle introduction that leads into examples with Internet Explorer 4 and HTML. McGrath then tackles all the big related issues: database publishing, web automation, channel publishing, E-commerce, and other technical details. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Inside Flap Preface “XML may just be the “killer application” needed to open up the Worldwide Web for electronic commerce.” CommerceNet commerce/news/press/0821.html Quotes such as this are common on the World Wide Web at the moment. An ever increasing number of Web pages seem to feature “XML” and “electronic commerce” in the same sentence! So just what is XML? Where did it come from? Why is it being heralded as the kick start that the electronic commerce revolution has been waiting for? In this book I hope to answer these questions. XML is the most exciting technology I have been involved in since I first tapped a computer keyboard in 1982. The excitement around XML is positively palpable. You can cut it with a knife! Nobody knows for sure where this technology is headed but the smart money (and lots of it!) points to a healthy future for XML in the increasingly Web centric world of business. Is XML some major technical breakthrough cooked up by research scientists? No it is not. Is XML something that could only have happened in recent years because of other technology constraints? No it is not. XML could have happened at any time since the late 1960s when the seeds of the ideas it embodies drew their first breath. Perhaps the world was simply not ready for it? Perhaps the world then did not need what XML has to offer badly enough. The Internet revolution and in particular, the frenzied excitement about electronic commerce on the Web has changed all that. We are in a new world order now. A world in which the World Wide Web, the Internet, intranets, and extranets will change both the technological and commercial landscape of our planet for good. The plain fact of the matter is that electronic commerce today needs what XML has to offer. XML is not, like some hot technologies before it, a solution waiting for a problem. It is a solution to a very real existing problem — how to m
