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Ceponkus, Hoodbhoy - Applied XML - Toolkit for Programmers

Introduction Overview

Acknowlwdgments
We would both like to extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation to all the wonderful
people who helped us out along the way, especially: Rich Rollman for keeping us up to
date and for his mentoring efforts; David Turner for arranging things for us at Microsoft;
Kathryn Malm for all the edits and for making sure we finished on time; and Cary Sullivan,
Christina Berry, and the folks at Wiley for all their help and for trusting two brand new
authors.
Alex would also like to thank
: Ian Graham, Scott Isaacs, Adam Denning and Peter Weiss
for sharing their writing experiences; my friends and my housemates for being patient
while I typed away at the manuscript; my family for their love and support; my friends at
IDRC and at Microsoft, and Faraz for teaching me the ways of the industry; and I wouldn’t
want to forget to thank all the 1s and 0s, for without them, we wouldn’t get too far with
these things called computers.
Faraz would also like to thank
: My parents, Samir and Khatoon, and my brother, Umair,
for their love and tireless support; my Aunt Naseem, Uncle Iftikhar, and cousins, Azhar
and Mahnaz, for their continual encouragement; my advisor, Professor Tom Willemain,
for helping me see the “big picture” and keeping me on track; my friend and co-author,
Alex, for being the best partner a guy could ask for; and my good buddies, Sabahat,
Awais, Masoud, Maroof, and Adil who taught me that when the going gets tough, the
tough take coffee breaks. Finally, to the late Dr. Eqbal Ahmad, thank you for having been
a part of my life and for showing me and so many thousands more, “the right path” by
walking there first.
Introduction
Overview
Technology is a funny business. One day everyone’s screaming “object-oriented!” the
next it’s “push!” and today it’s “XML!” How does one separate the wheat from the chaff?
That’s not something we try to tackle in this book.
Our objective in this book is to show you how to apply XML to real world scenarios. Yes,
we spend some time covering the conceptual details of XML—but that’s the easy stuff.
What we chose to write about are things that most books couldn’t cover before:
how to use
XML while creating real world applications.
About XML

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That XML is big is something you already know or you wouldn’t be picking out books from
this shelf.
If you’re asking yourself what XML is and why on earth everyone’s making so much noise
about it, XML is the eXtensible Markup Language. It is a universal method for
representing information that is especially well suited to distribution over the Internet. It is
a technology that, aside from having a lot of hype, has the real potential to change the
way we compute today and a technology that has the backing of virtually every major
industry player.
From a lifecycle perspective, XML today is where HTML was in 1992. Between then and
1995, if you knew anything about HTML, you were in for the ride of your life. While it is
dangerous to draw parallels in the technology business, we’re confident saying that
now
is
a good time to know how to use XML.

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