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EBooks » XML
Building Web Applications with ADO.NET and XML Web Services | PDF(416 pages) | 5.5mb
Richard Hundhausen, Steven Borg, Cole Francis, and Kenneth Wilcox have combined their years
of expertise in this invaluable resource to teach you how a typical wired business can
leverage Web services in B2B commerce. Using a case study, the authors walk you step by
step through how to take advantage of new technologies in .NET, such as ADO, ASP, and SOAP,
to create XML Web services. They start with a discussion of a Web services provider case
study, including the analysis, design, construction, registration, and deployment of the
Web service. You'll then learn about the conceptual design of a system and receive an
introduction to Object Role Modeling (ORM).
 XQuery | 1.66 MB With the XQuery 1.0 standard, you finally have a tool that will make it much easier to search, extract and manipulate information from XML content stored in databases. This in-depth tutorial not only walks you through the XQuery specification, but also teaches you how to program with this widely anticipated query language. XQuery is for query writers who have some knowledge of XML basics, but not necessarily advanced knowledge of XML-related technologies. It can be used both as a tutorial, by reading cover to cover, and as a reference, by using the comprehensive index and appendixes. Either way, you will find the background knowledge in namespaces, schemas, built-in types and regular expressions that is relevant to writing XML queries. This book provides: A high-level overview and quick tour of XQuery Information to write sophisticated queries, without being bogged down by the details of types, namespaces, and schemas Advanced concepts for users who want to take advantage of modularity, namespaces, typing and schemas Guidelines for working with specific types of data, such as numbers, strings, dates, URIs and processing instructions A complete alphabetical reference to the built-in functions and types You will also learn about XQuery's support for filtering, sorting, and grouping data, as well as how to use FLWOR expressions, XPath, and XQuery tools for extracting and combining information. With this book, you will discover how to apply all of these tools to a wide variety of data sources, and how to recombine information from multiple sources into a single final output result. Whether you're coming from SQL, XSLT, or starting from scratch, this carefully paced tutorial takes you through the final 1.0 standard in detail.  Author(s): Matthew MacDonald Publisher: MS Press Year: Feb 2003 ISBN: 0735619336 Language: English File type: CHM Pages: 752 Size (for download): 5 MB Make the jump to distributed application programming using the .NET Framework—and introduce a new level of performance, scalability, and security to your network and enterprise applications. Expert .NET developer Matthew MacDonald shares proven techniques for fully exploiting .NET Remoting, XML Web services, and other .NET technologies and integrating them into your real-world solutions. MacDonald digs into key .NET building blocks and architectural issues, explaining which features and designs will best serve your customized distributed application projects—and when to use them. Case studies with full code examples illustrate these practical techniques in action, as well as demonstrating their benefits and tradeoffs. It's been roughly seven years since distributed application architecture first gained recognition in the business world. Back then, exciting new technologies such as COM/DCOM and CORBA/IIOP promised to revolutionize the way that large-scale, resource-intensive applications were built. Instead of trying to host a single monolithic application on a single computer, distributed architecture allowed software to be modeled as a group of objects communicating across different machines. Best of all, these machines no longer needed to be proprietary mainframes—instead, developers could use inexpensive servers running the MS Windows operating system. Increasing the overall throughput of the system was often as easy as just adding an extra computer to the mix. All this has made distributed programming one of the most exciting and hotly pursued areas of software programming, but it hasn't made up for some critical stumbling blocks. Quite simply, distributed applications are complicated. Programming a distributed application on the Windows platform requires a solid understanding of MS's COM standard, its enterprise software and component services (such as SQL Server and COM+), and a healthy dose of painfully won experience. And no matter how skilled the programmer, a distributed programming project can quickly mushroom into a collection of versioning nightmares, interoperability headaches, and unexpected performance bottlenecks. These problems are the key factors behind the creation of MS's .NET platform. MS .NET provides an entirely new model for creating components, communicating across computers, and accessing data—one that is optimized for distributed applications on every level. This framework still requires a healthy investment of developer time and a fairly steep learning curve for novice programmers. After the basics are mastered, however, .NET makes it dramatically easier to create truly scalable software systems. This book explores distributed programming with .NET. It details the key .NET technologies you need to master and explains the best practices for distributed application architecture with .NET. Best of all, it shows you how the separate .NET technologies can all fit together. TABLE OF CONTENT: Chapter 01 - Understanding Distributed Architecture Chapter 02 - .NET Components Chapter 03 - Disconnected Data: The Universal Language Chapter 04 - .NET Remoting: A More Durable DCOM Chapter 05 - XML Web Services (RPC the Easy Way) Chapter 06 - Threaded Clients (Responsive Interfaces) Chapter 07 - Thread Pools and Services (Scalable Programming) Chapter 08 - Messaging (Lightweight Communication) Chapter 09 - COM+ (Component Services) Chapter 10 - Enterprise Application Modeling Chapter 11 - Advanced Remoting Techniques Chapter 12 - Optimizing the Data Tier Chapter 13 - Implementing Security Chapter 14 - Monitoring, Logging, and Profiling Chapter 15 - Deployment Strategies Chapter 16 - Invoicer.NET Traveling Sales Chapter 17 - Transact.NET Order Fulfillment Chapter 18 - SuperCompute.NET Work Requests Chapter 19 - MS Case Studies 
XML for Bioinformatics aims to provide biologists, software engineers, and bioinformatics professionals with a comprehensive introduction to XML and current XML applications in bioinformatics. The book will assume no background in XML, and take readers from basic to intermediate XML concepts. Core topics will include: fundamentals of XML, creating XML grammars, web services via SOAP, and parsing XML documents in Perl and Java.  The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in the popularity and adoption of XML, the eXtensible Markup Language. This explosive growth is driven by its ability to provide a standardized, extensible means of including semantic information within documents describing semi-structured data. This makes it possible to address the shortcomings of existing markup languages such as HTML and support data exchange in e-business environments.
Dynamic Web pages, where the data resides in a backend database and is served using predefined templates, reduce the coupling between the data and its representation. However, the semantics of the data can still be confusing when exchanging information in an e-business environment. A particular item could be represented using different names (in the simplest case) in two systems in a business-to-business transaction. This enforces adherence to complex, often proprietary, document standards.  This is an excellent collection of XML best practices: essential reading for any developer using XML. This book will help you avoid common pitfalls and ensure your XML applications remain practical and interoperable for as long as possible. If you want to become a more effective XML developer, you need this book. You will learn which tools to use when in order to write legible, extensible, maintainable and robust XML code: - How do you write DTDs that are independent of namespace prefixes? - What do parsers reliably report and what don't they? - Which schema language is the right one for your job? - Which API should you choose for maximum speed and minimum size? - What can you do to ensure fast, reliable access to DTDs and schemas without making your document less portable? - Is XML too verbose for your application? 
As organizations begin to employ XML within their information-management and exchange strategies, data management issues pertaining to storage, retrieval, querying, indexing, and manipulation increasingly arise. Moreover, new information-modeling challenges also appear. XML Data Management—with its contributions from experts at the forefront of the XML field—addresses these key issues and challenges, offering insights into the advantages and drawbacks of various XML solutions, best practices for modeling information with XML, and developing custom, in-house solutions.
In this book, you will find discussions on the newest native XML databases, along with information on working with XML-enabled relational database systems. In addition, XML Data Management thoroughly examines benchmarks and analysis techniques for performance of XML databases.
 XML PROGRAMMING is the best place to find detailed instructions and insights on how to take advantage of XML and the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment to create extensible, end-to-end applications. Taking an architectural approach, the authors of the book carefully describe the XML hooks to be found in the next generation of Visual Studio and the .NET platform, plus how XML works with other Microsoft products such as Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000. This followup to Tennison's Beginning XSLT, has been updated to accomodate the revised XSLT standard. Part one of this book introduces XML and XSLT at a comfortable pace, and gradually demonstrates techniques for generating HTML (plus other formats), from XML. In part two, Tennison applies theory to real-life XSLT capabilities&emdash;including generating graphics. Each chapter includes step-by-step examples (with code available online), plus review questions at the end, to help you grasp the discussed features. In fact, all of the examples and exercises revolve around an interesting common theme: making TV listings available online. This book lives up to it's name, and will definitely take you from a novice to a professional, in no time!  XML lets developers capture, manipulate and exchange virtually any kind of document or data, without loss of integrity. Because XML lets you create common formats for sharing information between devices and platforms—such as mobile phones, Web browsers and company data stores—many experts have begun calling it the “lingua franca,” or universal language of the Digital Age. Developers, especially developers for the Web and intranets, can’t afford to be XML illiterate. But that powerful markup language has a lot of rules and can be a bit tricky to master. And that’s where this book comes in. XML For Dummies offers you a fast, fun, and easy way to become XML literate. With a minimum of technobabble and tons of sample applications and case studies, the authors get you on track with XML and all its special features. You’ll: |
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