If you're ready to enhance your Web or intranet site with the power of XML, this is the first book that shows you exactly how to get the job done -- step-by-step! Discover all technologies, tools, and techniques you need to build cutting-edge sites and Web applications with XML. Through detailed coverage of the new XSL style sheet standard, learn how to create dynamic sites that are customized based on browser and other user preferences -- including sites that support WebTV, PalmPilot, and other custom platforms. Learn how to use XML to enhance site look-and-fell, interoperability, operation and maintenance. Understand the XML document object model; then walk through building XML that is processed on both the client-side and server-side -- and learn when to use each. Finally, discover techniques for displaying XML in any browser -- even browsers created before the XML standard was established. The book includes extensive sample code, all of it provided on the accompanying CD-ROM. For anyone who wants to leverage XML to create cutting-edge intranet, extranet, and public Web sites -- including Web designers, application developers, and corporate Webmasters.
Michael Floyd is a veteran technology journalist and author of the Beyond HTML column in Web Techniques Magazine. He worked for Dr. Dobbs Magazine for seven years, and has been a speaker and co-chair of the Software Development Conference.