Definitive XML Schema - Softcover

Walmsley, Priscilla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130655678 ISBN 13: 9780130655677

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

The authoritative XML Schema reference and tutorial!

• Leverage the full power of XML Schema!
• In-depth coverage of the approved W3C Recommendation
• Schema design–practical and thorough
• Transition help for experienced DTD developers
• Authoritative! By Priscilla Walmsley–a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group

To leverage the full power of XML, companies need shared vocabularies to base their documents and scripts upon. XML Schema makes it possible to create those shared vocabularies-and Definitive XML Schema is the authoritative guide to the standard! Written by Priscilla Walmsley, a member of the W3C working group that created XML Schema, this book explains the W3C Recommendation with unprecedented insight and clarity–and introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any B2B, Web service, or content processing application. Coverage includes:

• How XML Schema provides a rigorous, complete standard for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes
• Working with schemas: Schema composition, instance validation, documentation, namespaces, and more
• XML Schema building blocks: elements, attributes, and types
• Advanced techniques: type derivation, model groups, substitution groups, identity constraints, redefinition, and much more
• An in-depth primer on effective schema design, including naming, document structure, and extensibility considerations
• Transition guidance for experienced DTD developers

Definitive XML Schema brings together expert guidance for schema design, superior approaches to schema development, and the most systematic XML Schema reference on the market. Whether you're a developer, architect, or content specialist, it's the only XML Schema resource you need!

"XML Schema is an incredibly powerful-and complex-document schema language, with such new capabilities as strong typing, modularity, inheritance, and identity constraints. This book guides you through the complexity so you can confidently use that power for your own projects."

–Charles F. Goldfarb

About this title

Synopsis

XML is revolutionizing business, enabling open information exchange that adds enormous value in both software development and content management. To make the most of XML, however, companies need a shared vocabulary to base their documents and scripts upon. That shared vocabulary has arrived in the form of a powerful new standard, XML Schema. Now, there's an authoritative guide to this widely anticipated technology, written by a key member of the W3C standards committee that created it. Priscilla Walmsley begins by showing how XML can allow companies to automate a wide range of B2B and content processing tasks -- and identifying the missing link they need to do so: a rigorous, complete standard for the structure, content, and semantics of XML documents. Walmsley shows how XML Schemas have been designed to fill that gap, offering extraordinary insight into the specification, as well as practical techniques for writing real-world schema. She covers every aspect of the standard, including namespaces, schema composition, instances, documentation and extension, and each key building block of XML Schema.

The book includes a full section of advanced coverage, encompassing reusable and substitution groups, identity constraints, techniques for redefining schema components, and a full chapter on schemas from the point of view of experienced DTD creators. Walmsley concludes with two full chapters on effective schema design.

About the Author

PRISCILLA WALMSLEY is a software architect at Vitria Technology, specializing in XML architecture and data management. She previously co-founded XMLSolutions Corporation. Walmsley has extensive expertise in electronic commerce, enterprise application integration, and data management, and has served with the W3C XML Schema Working Group since 1999.

About the Series Editor

Charles F. Goldfarb is the father of XML technology. He invented SGML,the Standard Generalized Markup Language on which XML and HTML arebased. You can find him on the Web at www.xmlbooks.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130655678
• ISBN 13: 9780130655677
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560