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Megginso offers an extensive discussion of document type definition (DTD): syntax, the DTD model, DTD analysis, processing, compatibility, customization, and architectural design. For advanced users.
Structuring XML Documents
by David MegginsonStructuring 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; and you already use HTML or SGML and want to try XML. In this… See more details below
Overview
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; and you already use HTML or SGML and want to try XML. 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; and use the new Architectural Forms standard to simplify complex DTD problems.
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For those ready to plunge into the Brave New World Wide Web of smart data and electronic commerce, Megginson (of Microstar Software Ltd.; Ontario, Canada) provides a tool more powerful than HTML for designing information structures: the eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Not for the clueless about DTDs or SGML, as there is no glossary. Includes a CD-ROM for plug-and-play parsing. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780136422990
- Publisher:
- Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
- Publication date:
- 03/20/1998
- Series:
- Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive Xml Series
- Pages:
- 420
- Product dimensions:
- 7.05(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.38(d)
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PREFACE: Introduction
I have written this book to help you use XML and SGML to solve your document-structuring problems.
The book is a result of my experience with and opinions about document structure after seven years work with SGML (and more recently, XML), first as an academic and later as a professional document-management consultant and systems architect.
While XML and SGML DTDs provide a convenient syntax for defining a document's structure, most of the principles of document design and analysis covered in this book are not specific to any syntax. Though the book necessarily deals with some of the idiosyncracies of XML and SGML DTDs and uses XML syntax in its examples, it deals with issues such as learning, usability, and ease of processingÑthat all document designers and analysts must understand, whether or not they use XML or SGML and whether they use DTD syntax or other notations to define their structures.
By itself, this book is not a general introduction to XML, SGML, or DTD syntax: I am assuming that you already know how to create markup in a document and how to write basic DTDs (though there is a review of DTD syntax in Chapter 1 if you're a little rusty). If you are entirely new to XML, you should start with a beginner's guide or with online resources such as the ones listed on the SGML/XML Web Page <...
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