Learning XML
Learning XML
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2001
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通讯作者：
Christopher R. Maden
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Erik T. Ray;Christopher R. Maden
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浏览器和创作工具对 XML（可扩展标记语言）的支持经过了长期的热烈宣传。主要数据库、创作工具（包括 Microsoft 的 Office 2000）和浏览器都致力于 XML 支持。许多 Web 和其他媒体的内容创建者和程序员都想知道：“XML 及其相关标准到底能为我做什么？”充分利用 XML 需要能够标记和转换 XML 文档，以便 Web 浏览器、数据库、移动电话、打印机、XML 处理器、语音响应系统和 LDAP 目录（仅举几例）可以处理它们。
在学习 XML 中，作者引用现实项目和其他令人信服的示例，简洁而专业地解释了 XML 及其功能。学习 XML 展示了 XML 标记本身、CSS 和 XSL 样式语言以及用于创建丰富链接结构的 XLink 和 XPointer 规范的用途。
XML 相对于 HTML 的基本优点是，XML 允许 Web 设计者定义对要使用的特定文档或数据库输出有意义的标签，并且它强制执行支持错误检查的明确结构。 XML 支持增强的样式和链接标准（例如，允许同时以多种语言链接到同一文档）和一系列新应用程序。
对于生成 XML 文档的作者来说，本书揭开了文件以及使用适当的结构和格式创建它们的过程的神秘面纱。设计人员将了解 XML 的哪些部分对他们的团队最有帮助，并开始创建文档类型描述。对于程序员来说，这本书使语法和结构变得清晰。它还讨论了在下一代浏览器、数据库和其他设备中查看文档所需的样式表。
关于作者：
Erik Ray 是计算机图书出版商 O'Reilly and Associates 的软件管理员，帮助将生产转移到基于 XML 的工作流程。他与妻子珍妮 (Jeannine) 和 5 只鸟住在马萨诸塞州索格斯。写作之余，他会练习剑道、观看日本动画、下围棋，或者潜入古董书展，满足自己对 19 世纪儿童书籍和机械螺栓目录的迷恋。
Chris Maden 于 1994 年离开布朗大学，在罗德岛州普罗维登斯的 Electronic Book Technologies 担任技术支持职位，偶然进入结构化标记领域，该公司是第一个电子图书浏览器 DynaText 的创建者。在那里，他参与了标准工作，包括参与第一个 XML 工作。从 EBT，他摇摇晃晃地北上到 O'Reilly 的工具组，在那里他帮助开发了新一代 SGML 和 XML 发布工具，并且还加入了 W3C 的 XSL 工作组。 1999 年，他离开公司加入了旧金山的电子书初创公司 Yomu，目前与妻子 Ellie Fountain Maden 住在那里。
From the Publisher:
The arrival of support for XMLthe Extensible Markup Languagein browsers and authoring tools has followed a long period of intense hype. Major databases, authoring tools (including Microsoft's Office 2000), and browsers are committed to XML support. Many content creators and programmers for the Web and other media are left wondering, "What can XML and its associated standards really do for me?" Getting the most from XML requires being able to tag and transform XML documents so they can be processed by web browsers, databases, mobile phones, printers, XML processors, voice response systems, and LDAP directories, just to name a few targets.
In Learning XML, the authors explain XML and its capabilities succinctly and professionally, with references to real-life projects and other cogent examples. Learning XML shows the purpose of XML markup itself, the CSS and XSL styling languages, and the XLink and XPointer specifications for creating rich link structures.
The basic advantages of XML over HTML are that XML lets a web designer define tags that are meaningful for the particular documents or database output to be used, and that it enforces an unambiguous structure that supports error-checking. XML supports enhanced styling and linking standards (allowing, for instance, simultaneous linking to the same document in multiple languages) and a range of new applications.
For writers producing XML documents, this book demystifies files and the process of creating them with the appropriate structure and format. Designers will learn what parts of XML are most helpful to their team and will get started on creating Document Type Descriptions. For programmers, the book makes syntax and structures clear. It also discusses the stylesheets needed for viewing documents in the next generation of browsers, databases, and other devices.
About the Authors:
Erik Ray is a software wrangler for the computer book publisher O'Reilly and Associates, helping to move production to an XML-based workflow. He lives with his wife Jeannine and 5 birds in Saugus, Massachusetts. When not writing, he can be found practicing kendo, watching Japanese animation, playing go, or stalking antiquarian book fairs to indulge his fetish for 19th-century children's books and machine bolt catalogs.
Chris Maden left Brown University in 1994 and stumbled into a career in structured markup via a technical support position at Electronic Book Technologies in Providence, RI, creators of one of the first electronic book browsers, DynaText. There, he got involved in standards work, including participating in the first work on XML. From EBT, he staggered north to the Tools Group at O'Reilly, where he helped develop a new generation of SGML and XML publishing tools, and where he also joined the XSL Working Group at the W3C. In 1999, he left to join Yomu, an e-books startup in San Francisco, where he currently lives with his wife Ellie Fountain Maden.