The Best-Selling XSD eBooks of All Time

If you need to create or use formal descriptions of XML vocabularies, the W3C's XML Schema offers a powerful set of tools for defining acceptable document structures and content. An alternative to DTDs as the way to describe and validate data in an XML environment, XML Schema enables developers to create precise descriptions with a richer set of datatypes?such as booleans, numbers, currencies, dates and times?that are essential for today?s applications. Schemas are powerful, but that power comes with substantial complexity.

This concise book explains the ins and outs of XML Schema, including design choices, best practices, and limitations. Particularly valuable are discussions of how the type structures fit with existing database and object-oriented program contexts. With XML Schema, you can define acceptable content models and annotate those models with additional type information, making them more readily bound to programs and objects. Schemas combine the easy interchange of text-based XML with the more stringent requirements of data exchange, and make it easier to validate documents based on namespaces. You?ll find plenty of examples in this book that demonstrate the details necessary for precise vocabulary definitions. Topics include: Foundations of XML Schema syntaxFlat, "russian-doll", and other schema approachesWorking with simple and complex types in a variety of contextsThe built-in datatypes provided by XML SchemaUsing facets to extend datatypes, including regular expression-based patternsUsing keys and uniqueness rules to limit how and where information may appearCreating extensible schemas and managing extensibilityDocumenting schemas and extending XML Schema capabilities through annotations In addition to the explanatory content, XML Schemaprovides a complete reference to all parts of both the XML Schema Structures and XML Schema Datatypes specifications, as well as a glossary. Appendices explore the relationships between XML Schema and other tools for describing document structures, including DTDs, RELAX NG, and Schematron, as well as work in progress at the W3C to more tightly integrate XML Schema with existing specifications. No matter how you intend to use XML Schema - for data structures or document structures, for standalone documents or part of SOAP transactions, for documentation, validation, or data binding ? all the foundations you need are outlined in XML Schema.

“XML Schema 1.1 has gone from strong data typing to positively stalwart—so powerful it can enforce database level constraints and business rules, so your data transfer code won’t have to. This book covers the 1.1 changes—and more—in its 500 revisions to Priscilla Walmsley’s 10-year best-selling classic. It’s the guide you need to navigate XML Schema’s complexity—and master its power!”. —Charles F. Goldfarb. For Ten Years the World’s Favorite Guide to XML Schema—Now Extensively Revised for Version 1.1 and Today’s Best Practices! To leverage XML’s full power, organizations need shared vocabularies based on XML Schema.

For a full decade, Definitive XML Schema has been the most practical, accessible, and usable guide to working with XML Schema. Now, author Priscilla Walmsley has thoroughly updated her classic to fully reflect XML Schema 1.1, and to present new best practices for designing successful schemas. Priscilla helped create XML Schema as a member of the W3C XML Schema Working Group, so she is well qualified to explain the W3C recommendation with insight and clarity. Her book teaches practical techniques for writing schemas to support any application, including many new use cases. You’ll discover how XML Schema 1.1 provides a rigorous, complete specification for modeling XML document structure, content, and datatypes; and walk through the many aspects of designing and applying schemas, including composition, instance validation, documentation, and namespaces. Then, building on the fundamentals, Priscilla introduces powerful advanced techniques ranging from type derivation to identity constraints. This edition’s extensive new coverage includes. Many new design hints, tips, and tricks – plus a full chapter on creating an enterprise strategy for schema development and maintenanceDesign considerations in creating schemas for relational and object-oriented models, narrative content, and Web servicesAn all-new chapter on assertionsCoverage of new 1.1 features, including overrides, conditional type assignment, open content and moreModernized rules for naming and designSubstantially updated coverage of extensibility, reuse, and versioningAnd much more. If you’re an XML developer, architect, or content specialist, with this Second Edition you can join the tens of thousands who rely on Definitive XML Schema for practical insights, deeper understanding, and solutions that work.

Making XML Data Streams Validated with XSD Schemas. XML has become the standard for transferring information from company to company or even from department to department. Although it is easily learned at first, the number of contingent technologies and the implementations of specialized versions of XML make it a very intense topic.

Making XML Data Streams Validated with XSD Schemas and Transforming Data Streams with XML Style Sheets and XSLT Data Transforms. XML has become the standard for transferring information from company to company or even from department to department. Although it is easily learned at first, the number of contingent technologies and the implementations of specialized versions of XML make it a very intense topic.

This book is a collection of tutorial examples and notes written by the author while he was learning XSD (XML Schema Definition).

Topics include: XSD (XML Schema Definition) specification and processors; JAXP (Java API for XML Processing) API; XSD Schema XML DOM/SAX validators; Using Xerces2 Java Parser API; XSD Built-in Datatypes: string, normalizedString, token, integer, long, int, short, byte, gYear, gMonth, gDay, gYearMonth, gMonthDay, duration, yearMonthDuration, dayTimeDuration, atomic, list, union; simpleContent and complexType; unique, key and keyref identity constraints; assert and assertion validation rules; Schema Component Reuse - include, redefine or import. Updated in 2024 (Version v5.23) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/XSD.

Making XML Data Streams Validated with XSD Schemas and Running Programs on the Server with VB.NET and ASP.NET. XML has become the standard for transferring information from company to company or even from department to department. Although it is easily learned at first, the number of contingent technologies and the implementations of specialized versions of XML make it a very intense topic. ASP.NET has become one of the most popular tools for developing server-side applications, and for good reason. The languages available (VB.NET, C#.NET, C++, J#, etc.

) are easy to use, the interface through Visual Studio is great and the capabilities are awesome.