Structuring XML Documents (Charles F. Goldfarb Series) - Softcover

MEGGINSON

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136422993 ISBN 13: 9780136422990

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

This book is perfect for anyone ready to build sophisticated XML or SGML DTDs that solve complex, real-world document systems challenges. In Structuring DTD Documents, David Megginson shares his extensive experience and wisdom about quality structured document design and DTD development. Learn proven techniques for building DTDs that are easier to learn, use, and process. Working with five detailed industry-standard models, discover how to: analyze DTDs and adapt them for your specific needs. Understand how to ensure structural compatibility throughout your DTDs. Finally, learn how to use the brand-new Architectural Forms standard to simplify many of the most complex DTD problems.

About this title

About the Author

David Megginson is senior architect for Microstar Software, Ltd. of Ontario, Canada, a leading supplier of XML/SGML large document management and production systems, and publisher of the acclaimed Near & Far Designer and Active sg/xml development tools.

From the Back Cover

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Real XML help for webmasters, developers, and publishing professionals!

Structuring XML Documents is the perfect book for you, if...

• You're tired of toy exercises and are ready to build XML/SGML DTDs for real-world document systems .
• You need to write DTDs that work both for your authors and for your computer specialists.
• You're starting with XML and want to make the most of it.
• You're migrating from SGML to XML - or thinking about it.

In this book, David Megginson shares his extensive expertise in quality structured document design and DTD development. Starting with five detailed industry-standard models, learn how to:

• Analyze DTDs and adapt them for your specific needs
• Build DTDs that are easier to learn, use, and process
• Ensure structural compatibility throughout your DTDs
• Use the new Architectural Forms standard to simplify complex DTD problems.

Whether you're a technical writer, documentation project manager, document systems implementor, or consultant, you'll refer to this book constantly.

On the CD-ROM...All these state-of-the-art model DTDs-pre-catalogued for plug-and-play parsing...

• ISO 12083 DTDs
• DocBook 3.0 DTD with documentation
• TEI P3 and TEI-Lite 1.6 DTDs
• MIL-STD-38784 DTD with Official Navy Baseline Tagset Library
• HTML 4.0

Plus...

• Ælfred-a small, fast, DTD-aware Java(tm)-based XML parser, especially suitable for use in Java applets
• SP/NSGMLS parser - source code and Windows binaries, for XML and SGML parsing and validating
• ISO character entity sets - a Web page indexing all the CD's contents, and including links to all the URLs cited in the book-sites where you can find the most up-to-date information on XML and SGML and more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0136422993
• ISBN 13: 9780136422990
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480