Definitive XML Schema

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Pearson Education, Dec 7, 2001 - Computers - 560 pages

The authoritative XML Schema reference and tutorial!

  • Leverage the full power of XML Schema!
  • In-depth coverage of the approved W3C Recommendation
  • Schema design–practical and thorough
  • Transition help for experienced DTD developers
  • Authoritative! By Priscilla Walmsley–a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group

To leverage the full power of XML, companies need shared vocabularies to base their documents and scripts upon. XML Schema makes it possible to create those shared vocabularies-and Definitive XML Schema is the authoritative guide to the standard! Written by Priscilla Walmsley, a member of the W3C working group that created XML Schema, this book explains the W3C Recommendation with unprecedented insight and clarity–and introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any B2B, Web service, or content processing application. Coverage includes:

  • How XML Schema provides a rigorous, complete standard for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes
  • Working with schemas: Schema composition, instance validation, documentation, namespaces, and more
  • XML Schema building blocks: elements, attributes, and types
  • Advanced techniques: type derivation, model groups, substitution groups, identity constraints, redefinition, and much more
  • An in-depth primer on effective schema design, including naming, document structure, and extensibility considerations
  • Transition guidance for experienced DTD developers

Definitive XML Schema brings together expert guidance for schema design, superior approaches to schema development, and the most systematic XML Schema reference on the market. Whether you're a developer, architect, or content specialist, it's the only XML Schema resource you need!

"XML Schema is an incredibly powerful-and complex-document schema language, with such new capabilities as strong typing, modularity, inheritance, and identity constraints. This book guides you through the complexity so you can confidently use that power for your own projects."

–Charles F. Goldfarb

From inside the book

 

Contents

Contents
An introduction
A quick tour of XML Schema
Namespaces
Schema composition
Instances and schemas
Schema documentation and extension
Element declarations
Builtin simple types
Complex types
Deriving complex types
Reusable groups
Substitution groups
Identity constraints
Redefining schema components
Topics for DTD users

Attribute declarations
Simple types
Regular expressions
Union and list types
Naming considerations
Extensibility and reuse
Appendix A Table of XSDL keywords
Appendix B Builtin simple types

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About the author (2001)

PRISCILLA WALMSLEY is a software architect at Vitria Technology, specializing in XML architecture and data management. She previously co-founded XMLSolutions Corporation. Walmsley has extensive expertise in electronic commerce, enterprise application integration, and data management, and has served with the W3C XML Schema Working Group since 1999.

About the Series Editor

Charles F. Goldfarb is the father of XML technology. He invented SGML,the Standard Generalized Markup Language on which XML and HTML arebased. You can find him on the Web at www.xmlbooks.com

Bibliographic information

TitleDefinitive XML Schema
Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series
AuthorPriscilla Walmsley
PublisherPearson Education, 2001
ISBN0321629930, 9780321629937
Length560 pages
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