XHTML: Moving Toward XML [Paperback]

Simon St.Laurent (Author), B.K. DeLong (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0764547097 | ISBN-13: 978-0764547096 | Publication Date: January 15, 2000 | Edition: 1

XHTML promises to expand the power and versatility of the Web and pave the way for XML. With crystal-clear explanations and compelling case studies, this step-by-step guide shows you how to take advantage of this exciting new Web standard. From working with the rigorous XHTML structure and retrofitting your HTML code to extending XHTML with XML, this guide is just what you need to position yourself and your sites for the XML future.

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XHTML: Moving Toward XML helps Web developers make the transition from 'traditional' HTML to the World Wide Web Consortium's new XHTML. Web developers who have spent years dealing with cross-platform chaos brought on by the 'browser wars' can finally start moving to a single standard, but making use of XHTML requires a significant change in development style as well as patience with a few legacies of HTML.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) is the next generation of HTML, destined to replace HTML as the common format for exchanging documents over the Web. XHTML combines the familiar HTML vocabulary with the structures and extensibility of XML, the Extensible Markup Language. By adding a critical layer of predictability to HTML documents, XHTML opens new possibilities in document processing, creation, and storage, and makes possible an orderly approach to adding new functionality to documents built with the HTML vocabulary.

Designed for developers who already have a firm grasp on HTML and Web development, XHTML: Moving Toward XML focuses on the changes between HTML and XHTML, not the basics of Web development. If you're moving from HTML to XHTML, rather than learning XHTML from scratch, this book will provide you with the key information you need rather than basic tutorials on HTML vocabulary.

On the other hand, XML remains a somewhat mysterious topic to many Web developers. XHTML: Moving Toward XML provides a detailed explanation of the impact XML has had on XHTML, without demanding that readers have prior XML experience. By focusing on the core XML technologies used by XHTML, this book gives developers an opportunity to learn about the heart of XML without depending on some of XML's more mystical features.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764547097
• ISBN-13: 978-0764547096
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,644,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars informationally good, a bit confusing at times, January 24, 2001

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Catherine J. Rambo - See all my reviews

This review is from: XHTML: Moving Toward XML (Paperback)

this book is full of good information, particularly if you don't know much about xml but know a lot about html. the first 10 chapters are great, particularly the sections on the document type definition (dtd) -- you can see where the W3C defines html and how much of that definition is missing or added to by the different browsers. unfortunately, the book is not laid out very well. there are a lot of references to later chapters that leave you wondering what they are talking about until you get there. this book is written by two different people, and it seems obvious who wrote what chapters. i give 4 stars, not 3, because there is enough useful information in this book to make it worth reading and having for the html expert looking to make the move towards xml.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong content, but could have been shorter, December 31, 2001

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"the_coder" (Plano, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: XHTML: Moving Toward XML (Paperback)

This book had many positive qualities and a few negative ones. It was a well-written book, with comprehensive coverage of the topic. However, it was longer than necessary and contained to much filler.

The concept behind the xhtml 1.0 spec is relatively simple. You must perform the following: close all your tags, include the xhtml dtd, use all lower case letters, use CSS instead of the deprecated formatting tags, and put script in cdata sections. The book required 304 pages to make these points, as it showed how each would impact 12 different browsers. On the positive side, this book was very concise and well written. At one sitting, I completed over 200 pages. It was truly enjoyable to read and the topics retained my interest.

Overall, I give this book four-stars. The only negative being the large quantity of filler content. The book was perfect otherwise.

5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent resource, August 24, 2000

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Bruce T. Peat (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: XHTML: Moving Toward XML (Paperback)

An excellent resource for anyone who knows HTML and wants to learn XHTML; a critical component for future Business to Consumer commerce systems.