Книга Скотта Шорта посвящена построению и применению Web-сервисов средствами платформы Microsoft .NET. Подробно рассматриваются интернет-технологии ASP.NET и Remoting, DISCO, UDDI, протокол SOAP, языки XML, WSDL, и их роль в разработке Web-сервисов. Приводятся сведения о новейших разработках корпорации Microsoft, облегчающих создание и распространение Web-сервисов. Обсуждаются эффективные способы отладки Web-сервисов, защиты передаваемой информации и обеспечение масштабируемости и повышенной готовности Web-сервисов. Весь материал снабжен большим количеством примеров. Полный исходный код всех примеров помещен на сопутствующий CD-ROM.

Knowledge and ability to apply XML are de rigueur in today’s world, and SQL Server developers and administrators are no exception to that rule. Pro SQL Server 2008 XML is your key to unlocking the powerful XML feature set first introduced in SQL Server 2005 and since refined in SQL Server 2008. Author Michael Coles shows how to store XML using SQL Server’s built–in XML data type. Learn to query and manipulate XML data using standard technologies such as XQuery and XSLT. No SQL Server database professional can afford to be without knowledge of the XML feature set. Pro SQL Server 2008 XML delivers on the knowledge that you need to remain competitive in your career.
Shows how to store, query, and manipulate XML documents in SQL Server
Provides step–by–step examples showing best practices and advanced features
Accurately discusses how SQL Server’s XML feature set stacks up against the ISO XML standards

This book presents XML programming from a conceptual perspective, teaching not just the technology, but the background and thinking behind it. Developers learn to do it right, gaining a thorough understanding of the hows and the whys from the ground up. Rather than teaching programmers to memorize specific APIs, this book teaches programmers how to think about XML programming in a language-neutral way, with examples in various languages (such as Java, C++, Perl, and VB) and provides guidance on how and when XML can be used in real-world situations.

This volume offers relentlessly pragmatic solutions to help your business applications get the most out of XML, with a breezy style that makes the going easy. Mike has lived this stuff; he has a strong command of the solutions and the philosophy that underlies them.Eve Maler, XML Standards Architect, Sun Microsystems. Businesses running legacy applications that do not support XML can face a tough choice: Either keep their legacy applications or switch to newer, XML-enhanced applications. XML presents both challenges and opportunities for organizations as they struggle with their data.

The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in the popularity and adoption of XML, the eXtensible Markup Language. This explosive growth is driven by its ability to provide a standardized, extensible means of including semantic information within documents describing semi-structured data. This makes it possible to address the shortcomings of existing markup languages such as HTML and support data exchange in e-business environments.

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This book is an important station on a long journey. I would like to thank all the people who have helped me and trusted me along the way. In chronological order, Ph. Capelle, who helped a confused student; Ph. van Bastelaer and J. Berge, who were curious about SGML; H. Karunaratne and K. Kaur and the folks at Sitpro, who showed me London; S. Vincent, who suggested I get serious about writing; V. D’Haeyere, who taught me everything about the Internet; Ph. Vanhoolandt, who published my first article; M. Gonzalez, N. Hada, T. Nakamura, and the folks at Digital Cats, who published my first U.S. papers; S. McLoughlin, who helps with the newsletter; and T. Green, who trusted me with this book. Thanks the XML/EDI Group and, in particular, M. Bryan, A. Kotok, B. Peat, and D. Webber. Special thanks to my mother for making me curious. Writing a book is a demanding task, both for a business and for a family. Thanks to my customers for understanding and patience when I was late. Special thanks to Pascale for not only showing understanding, but also for encouraging me!

XML started as an obscure effort driven by a small group of dedicated SGML experts who were convinced that the world needed something more powerful than HTML. Although XML hasn’t yet taken the world by storm, in its quiet
way it is poised to revolutionize the Internet and usher in a new age of electronic commerce. Until recently, the non-technical Internet user has largely written off XML as being more of a programmers’ language than a technology that applies to us all. Nearly two years after XML’s inception, there is still no real mainstream software support in the form of editors and viewers. However, just as with HTML, as the technology becomes adopted, the tools will start to arrive.
Netscape and Microsoft have already given us a taste of what is to come. Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days teaches you about XML and its related standards (the XSL style language, XLink and XPointer hyperlinking, XML Data, and XSchema, to name just a few), but it doesn’t stop there. As you follow the step-by-step explanations, you will also learn how to use XML. You will be introduced to a wide range of the available tools, from the newest to the tried and tested. By the time you finish this book, you’ll know enough about XML and its use within the available tools to use it immediately.

This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find topics on just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of DTD and XML Schema creation, to XSLT transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. Simply put, this is the only reference of its kind among XML books.

This hack lays the basic groundwork for XML: what it looks like and how it's put together. Example 1-1 shows a simple document (start.xml) that contains some of the most common XML structures: an XML declaration, a comment, elements, attributes, an empty element, and a character reference. start.xml is well-formed, meaning that it conforms to the syntax rules in the XML specification. XML documents must be well-formed.