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David Hunter is a Senior Technical Consultant for CGI, a full-service IT and business process services partner. Providing technical leadership and guidance for solving his clients' business problems, he is a jack-of-all-trades and master of some. With a career that has included design, development, support, training, writing, and other roles, he has had extensive experience building scalable, reliable, enterprise-class applications. David loves to peek under the hood at any new technology that comes his way, and when one catches his fancy, he really gets his hands dirty. He loves nothing more than sharing these technologies with others.

Jeff Rafter is an independent consultant based in Redlands, California. His focus is one emerging technology and web standards, including XML and validation. he currently works with Baobab Health Partnership with a focus on improving world health.

Joe Fawcett (http://joe.fawcett.name) started programming in the 1970s and worked briefly in IT when leaving full-time education. he then pursued a more checkered career before returning to software development in 1994. In 2003 he was awarded the title of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in XML for community contributions and technical expertise; he has subsequently been re-awarded every year since. Joe currently works in London and is head of software development for FTC Kaplan Ltd., a leading international provider of accountancy and business training.

Eric van der Vlist is an independent consultant and trainer. His domains of expertise include web development and XML technologies. He is the creator and main editor of XMLfr.org, the main site dedicated to XML technologies in French, the lead author of Professional Web 2.0 Programming, the author of the O'Reilly animal books XML Schema and RELAX NG and a member or the ISO DSDL (http://dsdl.org) working group focused on XML schema languages. he is based in Paris and can be reached at [email protected] , or meet him at one of the many conferences where he presents his projects.

Danny Ayers is a freelance developer and consultant specializing in cutting-edge web technologies. His blog (http://dannyayers.com) tends to feature material relating to the Semantic Web and/or cat photos.

Jon Duckett co-authored Wrox Press' first book on XML in 1998. After 4 years with Wrox in the UK, Jon is now a freelance web developer working with clients in the UK, US and Australia, and has co-authored 10 programming books.

Andrew Watt has been programming for 20 years, including 10 years work with the Web. He has several books in the areas of XML and XSLT to his credit and is well known for his work on XML.com.

Linda McKinnon has more than 10 years of experience as a successful trainer and network engineer, assisting both private and public enterprises in network architecture design, implementation, system administration, and RP procurement. She is a renowned mentor and has published numerous Linux study guide for Wiley Press and Gearhead Press.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Introduction.

Chapter 1: What Is XML?

Chapter 2: Well-Formed XML.

Chapter 3: XML Namespaces.

Part II: Validation.

Chapter 4: Document Type Definitions.

Chapter 5: XML Schemas.

Chapter 6: RELAX NG.

Part III: Processing.

Chapter 7: XPath.

Chapter 8: XSLT.

Part IV: Databases.

Chapter 9: XQuery, the XML Query Language.

Chapter 10: XML and Databases.

Part V: Programming.

Chapter 11: The XML Document Object Model (DOM).

Chapter 12: Simple API for XML (SAX).

Part VI: Communication.

Chapter 13: RSS, Atom, and Content Syndication.

Chapter 14: Web Services.

Chapter 15: SOAP and WSDL.

Chapter 16: Ajax.

Part VII: Display.

Chapter 17: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Chapter 18: XHTML.

Chapter 19: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

Chapter 20: XForms.

Part VIII: Case Study.

Chapter 21: Case Study: Payment Calculator.

Chapter 22: Case Study: Payment Calculator—Ruby on Rails.

Appendix A: Exercise Solutions.

Appendix B: XPath Reference.

Appendix C: XSLT Reference.

Appendix D: The XML Document Object Model.

Appendix E: XML Schema Element and Attribute Reference.

Appendix F: XML Schema Datatypes Reference.

Appendix G: SAX 2.0.2 Reference.

Index.