Motivation and rationale for using XML -- XML document types -- The importance of naming standards (taxonomy) -- W3C XML schema vs database data types -- W3C XML schema data type facets -- Structure models -- Architectural container forms -- W3C XML schemas and reuse -- Design and engineering for the data architect -- Web services, an introduction to the future.
Summary
"The book addresses a sorely missing set of considerations in the real world ... This is a very timely book."--Peter Herzum, author of Business Component Factory and CEO of Herzum SoftwareXML is a tremendous enabler for platform agnostic data and metadata exchanges. However, there are no clear processes and techniques specifically focused on the engineering of XML structures to support reuse and integration simplicity, which are of particular importance in the age of application integration and Web services. This book describes the challenges of using XML in a manner that promotes simplification