This book is for anyone working with today’s mainstream XML technologies. It was specifically designed to serve as a handy but thorough quick reference that answers the most common XML-related technical questions.

It goes beyond the traditional pocket reference design by providing complete coverage of each topic along with plenty of meaningful examples. Each chapter provides a brief introduction, which is followed by the detailed reference information.

This approach assumes the reader has a basic understanding of the given topic. The detailed outline (at the beginning), index (in the back), bleeding tabs (along the side), and the page headers/footers were designed to help readers quickly find answers to their questions.

Praise for Essential XML Quick Reference:

“This book is a unique collection of reference material on the most relevant XMLrelated standards, which takes the important W3C recommendations and puts them all in context. Something that definitely needs to be on every XML developer's desk!”
—Alexander Falk,
President and CEO of Altova, Inc. - The XML Spy Company

“Essential XML Quick Reference proves that Aaron Skonnard and Martin Gudgin can distill the essence of a very large, complicated topic like XML into easy to understand, bite-sized pieces. It’s an invaluable asset!”
—Brad Wilson,
Principal Software Architect, Quality Software Development

“Essential XML Quick Reference is one of the few printed references I would actually buy.”
—Don Box,
Series Editor, The DevelopMentor Series

“The full specification is quite verbose. Having the pocket reference makes life simpler when it comes to the ‘What was the name of that element again?’ or ‘What were the order of the parameters to that function?’ type questions. When I need a quick, concise, answer, I don’t want to have to thumb through hundreds of pages before getting the answer I need. This book is a very welcome, often relied upon, addition to my developer tool belt.”
—Drew Marsh,
Senior Architect, Mimeo.com, Inc.

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By Aaron Skonnard, Martin Gudgin.

"This book covers all the essentials of XML quickly and with no distracting fluff. This is by far the best XML book I have read, and I highly recommend it."
—Chad Harrington,
Director of Business Development, Entercept Security Technologies

Aaron Skonnard is a founder of PluralSight and a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine, where he writes "The XML Files" column.

Martin Gudgin works at Microsoft, where he spends his time thinking about component software and related technologies. A Windows developer since 1987 and a COM developer since 1994, Martin has trained and mentored developers from a wide range of companies, including Microsoft, in numerous technical areas such as COM, IDL, MTS, COM+ and XML. He is a member of several W3C Working Groups, including XML Schema and SOAP.

Chapter 1

XML 1.0 and Namespaces
XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML provide a tag-based syntax for structuring data and applying markups to documents. Documents that conform to XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML specifications may be made up of a variety of syntactic constructs such as elements, namespace declarations, attributes, processing instructions, comments, and text. This chapter provides a description of each of the structural elements in XML along with their syntax. ...

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Addison-Wesley has joined forces with DevelopMentor, a premiere developer resources company, to produce a series of technical books written by developers for developers. DevelopMentor boasts a prestigious technical staff that includes some of the world’s best-known computer science professionals.

“Works in The DevelopMentor Series are practical and informative sources on the tools and techniques for applying component-based technologies to real-world, large-scale distributed systems.”
—Don Box

Titles in the Series:

Don Box, Essential COM, 0-201-63446-5

Don Box, Aaron Skonnard, and John Lam, Essential XML: Beyond Markup, 0-201-70914-7

Keith Brown, Programming Windows Security, 0-201-60442-6

Matthew Curland, Advanced Visual Basic 6: Power Techniques for Everyday Programs, 0-201-70712-8

Doug Dunn, Java™ Rules, 0-201-70916-3

Tim Ewald, Transactional COM+L: Building Scalable Applications, 0-201-61594-03

Jon Flanders, ASP Internals, 0-201-61618-1

Martin Gudgin, Essential IDL: Interface Design for COM, 0-201-61595-9

Stuart Halloway, Component Development for the Java™ Platform, 0-201-75306-5

Joe Hummel, Ted Pattison, Justin Gehtland, Doug Turnure, and Brian A. Randell, Effective Visual Basic: How to Improve Your VB/COM+ Applications, 0-201-70476-5

Stanley B. Lippman, C# Primer: A Practical Approach, 0-201-72955-5

Everett N. McKay and Mike Woodring, Debugging Windows Programs: Strategies, Tools, and Techniques for Visual C++ Programmers,
0-201-70238-X

Aaron Skonnard and Martin Gudgin, Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More, 0-201-74095-8

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