XML Schema Complete Reference, The - Softcover

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Cliff Binstock, the owner of Robust Software, has more than twenty years of development experience, from hands-on architecture and coding to mentoring and project leadership.

Dave Peterson serves on the W3C XML Schema Working Group. Currently principal consultant with his own firm, SGMLWorks!, he has worked with the SGML and XML markup languages for sixteen years, and has been programming and designing software systems for thirty-six years.

Mitchell Smith has seventeen years of experience in software development, including architecture, development, project management, object-oriented analysis and design, and database design and implementation.

Mike Wooding has developed hardware and software products since 1975, and has extensive experience with XML technologies.

Chris Dix is lead developer for Navtrak, where he specializes in .NET development using XML. He is the coauthor of Professional XML Web Services (Wrox Press, 2001).

Chris Galtenberg is a writer, inventor, and methodologist interested in extending human intelligence through philosophy and software.

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With the successful implementation of XML Schema, developers are learning how to increase productivity, improve software reliability, minimize development time, and decrease time to market. This in-depth reference is an all-in-one resource designed to help developers leverage the power and potential of XML schemas by offering a complete roadmap to their creation, design, and use.

This authoritative reference and tutorial is filled with practical insights and detailed examples. The book begins by providing a conceptual introduction to XML Schema. From there, coverage shifts to the W3C Schema Recommendation and how to apply schemas to specific business goals. The authors provide insight and instruction throughout on integrating XML schemas into existing technologies such as .NET, Java, Visual Basic, Oracle, and more. The book concludes with a complete case study designed to reinforce and illustrate material covered.

Additional topics include:

• Applications for schemas
• Simple and complex types
• XML schema processing and validation
• Namespaces in XML
• Using schemas with DOM and SAX
• XML schema document syntax
• XML Information Sets
• XML Schema applications of XPath

Whether designing a schema from scratch or integrating schemas into contemporary technologies, The XML Schema Complete Reference is the most complete and definitive sourcebook available for the XML Schema environment.