Fwd: O'Reilly Releases "XML in a Nutshell"

[Jim]

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Subject: O'Reilly Releases "XML in a Nutshell"
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:19:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Denise Olliffe <deniseo@oreilly.com>
To: farli@wiredglobal.com


For immediate release
Review copies available
Contact:  Denise Olliffe
(707) 829-0515 ext 339 or deniseo@oreilly.com


INVISIBILITY IN A NUTSHELL

Mainframes on Wall Street trade stocks with one another by using it.
Children playing games on their home PCs save their documents in it.
Sports fans receive real-time game scores on their cell phones with it.
"XML is so important that very soon it will become invisible," says W.
Scott Means, coauthor of the new O'Reilly book "XML in a Nutshell" (US
$29.95). "What I mean is, that its applications are so broad and
diverse, that it will be taken for granted. Within the next five years,
products will no more tout XML support as a feature, as they tout
Windows support today."

XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is a W3C endorsed standard for
document markup. It provides a standard format for computer documents.
This format is so flexible that it can be customized for areas as
diverse as web sites, electronic data interchange, vector graphics,
genealogy, real estate listings, object serialization, wireless
devices, and voice mail systems. Because of that, XML is positioned to
be the key web application technology of the future.

"In most new projects the question is no longer 'Whether XML' or 'Why
XML?' it's 'Why not XML?'," explains Elliotte Rusty Harold, coauthor of
"XML in a Nutshell." "XML has become as important to developers as
Java, Perl, or C. Actually it's probably more important. You can always
choose a different programming language, but there isn't any good
alternative to XML for standard data formats."

"XML in a Nutshell" is a comprehensive guide to the rapidly growing
world of XML. It covers all aspects of XML, from the most basic syntax
rules, to the details of DTD creation, to the APIs you can use to read
and write XML documents in a variety of programming languages.

Developers can either write their own programs that interact with,
massage, and manipulate the data in XML documents or they can use
off-the-shelf software like web browsers and text editors to work with
XML documents. Either choice gives them access to a wide range of free
libraries in a variety of languages that can read and write XML.

"XML in a Nutshell" covers the fundamental rules that all XML documents
and authors must adhere to, detailing the grammar that specifies where
tags may be placed, what they must look like, which element names are
legal, how attributes attach to elements, and much more.

Harold adds: "'XML in a Nutshell' is a complete introduction to the
state of the art in XML. Very few XML books even attempt to cover this
much material. This book is the most concentrated, cost-effective way
to educate yourself about XML."


Chapter 9, XPath, is available free online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlnut/chapter/ch09.html

For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
index, author bio, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlnut/

For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/0596000588.jpg

For an in-depth and real-life look at XML, catch Elliotte Rusty
Harold's tutorials at the O'Reilly Conference on Enterprise Java, March
26-29, 2001 at the Westin Hotel in Santa Clara, California.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/java2001/

XML Fundamentals:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/java2001/view/e_sess/1132

Processing XML with Java:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/java2001/view/e_sess/1135

Register for your press pass at:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/java2001/register?x-t=java2001.press


XML in a Nutshell
A Desktop Quick Reference
By Elliotte Rusty Harold & W. Scott Means
ISBN January 2001
0-596-00058-8, 480 pages, $29.95 (US)
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
http://www.oreilly.com

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Jim

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