XML and SQL: Developing Web Applications - Softcover

Appelquist, Daniel K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201657961 ISBN 13: 9780201657968

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

As XML has rapidly gained in popularity, many database developers have become confused about its relationship with SQL and traditional RDBMS technologies. In this book, Dan Appelquist demystifies the relationship between XML and SQL, and shows exactly how to integrate these technologies for maximum advantage. XML and SQL covers every leading approach to integrating XML and SQL, helping you clearly understand each technology's strengths and weaknesses, and choose the right solution for each task or application. Drawing upon his extensive real-world experience, Appelquist offers expert guidance on: architecting robust systems that incorporate both XML and SQL technologies; using SQL to overcome XML's limitations; bringing XML's formatting capabilities to bear on SQL data, and much more. For all database developers, system architects, Web developers, content managers, and others interested in the use of XML to build robust, data-centric software systems.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel K. Appelquist is an independent technology consultant specializing in content management and e-business strategy. While at TheStreet.com, he built a content management solution using XML and SQL and then went on to be CTO for TheStreet.co.uk. At E-Doc, he built SGML-based solutions for publishers such as John Wiley & Sons and Macmillan Press to put journals such as Cancer and Nature online. He has spoken at Seybold, Xtech, and other events, and has been active on the Advisory Committee of the W3C and in the Open Group's Mobile Management Forum. In addition, he has served as an advisory member of the ICE protocol group and is on the Advisory Board of Kinecta Corporation.

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From the Back Cover

"Dan's book provides something that the formal standards and development manuals sorely lack: a context that helps developers understand how to use XML in their own projects."
--Tim Kientzle, Independent Software Consultant

XML and SQL: Developing Web Applications is a guide for Web developers and database programmers interested in building robust XML applications backed by SQL databases. It makes it easier than ever for Web developers to create and manage scalable database applications optimized for the Internet.

The author offers an understanding of the many advantages of both XML and SQL and provides practical information and techniques for utilizing the best of both systems. The book explores the stages of application development step by step, featuring a real-world perspective and many examples of when and how each technology is most effective.

Specific topics covered include:

• Project definition for a data-oriented application
• Creating a bullet-proof data model
• DTDs (document type definitions) and the design of XML documents
• When to use XML, and what parts of your data should remain purely relational
• Related standards, such as XSLT and XML Schema
• How to use the XML support incorporated into Microsoft's SQL Server™ 2000
• The XML-specific features of J2EE™ (Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition)

Throughout this book, numerous concrete examples illustrate how to use each of these powerful technologies to circumvent the other's limitations. If you want to use the best part of XML and SQL to create robust, data-centric systems then there is no better resource than this book.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201657961
• ISBN 13: 9780201657968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256