Applied XML Solutions

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Sams, 2000 - Computers - 351 pages

"Artful Making" offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate striking structural similarities between theatre artistry and production and today's business projects--and show how collaborative artists have mastered the art of delivering innovation "on cue," on immovable deadlines and budgets. These methods are neither mysterious nor flaky: they are rigorous, precise, and--with this book's help--absolutely learnable and reproducible. They rely on cheap and rapid iteration rather than on intensive up-front planning, and with the help of today's enabling technologies, they can be applied in virtually any environment with knowledge-based outputs. Moreover, they provide an overarching framework for leveraging the full benefits of today's leading techniques for promoting flexibility and innovation, from agile development to real options.

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Contents

Introduction
1
Scripted Configuration Files
43
Electronic Forms
71
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Benoit Marchal runs the consulting company, Pineapplesoft, which specializes in Internet applications, particularly e-commerce, XML, and Java. He has worked with major players in Internet development such as Netscape and EarthWeb, and is a regular contributor to developer.com and other Internet publications. In 1997 he co-founded the XML/EDI Group, a think-tank which promotes the use of XML in e-commerce applications. Beno t frequently leads corporate training on XML and other Internet technologies. Benoit previously wrote XML by Example (ISBN: 0-7897-2242-9).

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