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Originally developed by Netscape in 1999, RSS (which can stand for RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format that allows web developers to describe and syndicate web site content. Content Syndication with RSS offers webloggers, developers, and the programmers who support them a thorough explanation of syndication in general and RSS in particular. Written for web developers who want to offer XML-based feeds of their content, as well as developers who want to use the content that other people are syndicating, the book explores and explains metadata interpretation, different forms of content syndication, and the increasing use of web services in this field. Topics covered in the book include:

• Creating XML syndication feeds with RSS 0.9x and 2.0
• Beyond headlines: creating richer feeds with RSS 1.0 and RDF metadata
• Using feeds to enrich a site or find information
• Publish and subscribe: intelligent updating
• News aggregators, such as Meerkat, Syndic8, and Newsisfree, and their web services
• Alternative industry-centric standards

If you’re interested in producing your own RSS feed, this step-by-step guide to implementation is the book you’ll want in hand. Download Now »

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Whether you want to create your own RSS feeds or just would like to locate and add them to your Web site, this is the book for you. In the Secrets of RSS, author Steve Holzner provides real-world guidance and advice to introduce you everything you need to know about effectively implementing and using RSS:

• How to connect to RSS feed, handle them, and track down what you want
• The difference between RSS and blogs, and how nearly every major RSS reader works
• How to design an RSS feed, what you’ll find in RSS feeds, and formats and links
• Create your own first RSS feed from scratch:and subscribe to it
• Putting RSS to work in the real-world
• The free tools and software available to help you create RSS files
• Finding, subscribing to, and creating podcasts
• Spreading the word about your RSS feed
• RSS best practices
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Learning XSLT moves smoothly from the simple to complex, illustrating all aspects of XSLT 1.0 through step-by-step examples that you’ll practice as you work through the book. Thorough in its coverage of the language, the book makes few assumptions about what you may already know. You’ll learn about XSLT’s template-based syntax, how XSLT templates work with each other, and gain an understanding of XSLT variables. Learning XSLT also explains how the XML Path Language (XPath) is used by XSLT and provides a glimpse of what the future holds for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. The ability to transform one XML vocabulary to another is fundamental to exploiting the power of XML. Learning XSLT is a carefully paced, example-rich introduction to XSLT that will have you understanding and using XSLT on your own in no time.

Review
“I think this book is very well put together and succeeds in making what could be a very tedious subject relatively interesting. I am sure that anyone starting to work with XSLT will find it most helpful but you will need to get Xalan going as well as downloads the examples.” – John Collins, news@UK, March

About the Author
Michael Fitzgerald is a freelance writer and trainer specializing in XML and related technologies. He is the author of Building B2B Applications with XML and XSL Essentials, both published by John Wiley & Sons, and has published several articles for XML.com on the O’Reilly Network. Download Now »

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See how XML works for business needs and RSS feeds

Create consistency on the Web, or tag your data for different purposes

Tag — XML is it! XML tags let you share your format as well as your data, and this handy guide will show you how. You’ll soon be using this markup language to create everything from Web sites to business forms, discovering schemas and DOCTYPES, wandering the Xpath, teaming up XML with Office 2003, and more.

Discover how to

• Make information portable
• Use XML with Word 2003
• Store different types of data
• Convert HTML documents to XHTML
• Add CSS to XML
• Understand and use DTDs

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This book is designed to teach the FileMaker Pro developer about XML and XSL.

Suitable for both PC and Macintosh users. Designed to help the FileMaker Pro developer understand what XML is and how to create XML documents for the purpose of facilitating data exchange. In FileMaker Pro 6, XML-formatted text can be imported into databases, XML documents, HTML files, and text files through the use of XSL stylesheets. XML can also be used to publish web databases with FileMaker Pro. Examples and exercises throughout the book provide hands-on experience on a variety of topics including Document Type Definitions (DTDs), XPath function similarities, and importing and exporting XML.

Learn about the basics of XML, including the advantages of using XML and how to create XML documents. Find out how to import and export XML using FileMaker Pro 6. Understand how Document Type Definitions (DTDs) relate to XML. Learn how FileMaker Pro web publishes XML and how to design your databases for optimum web publishing. Explore stylesheet transformation of XML with XSL and how browsers handle XSL. The companion files can be downloaded from www.wordware.com/fmxml and www.moonbow.com/xml. These files contain the examples discussed in the book, as well as demo plug-ins from Troi Automatisering, information on networking FileMaker Pro solutions, and examples provided by third parties.

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This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of vocabulary creation, to transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. XML in a Nutshell, in fact, is the only reference of its kind among XML books.

Whether you’re a Web designer using SVG to add vector graphics to web pages, or a C++ programmer using SOAP to serialize objects into a remote database, this expanded second edition provides a thorough explanation of all the basic rules — including XML, DTDs, namespaces, Unicode, XML Schemas, XSLT, Xpath, SAX, and DOM. If you need explanation of how a technology works, or just need to quickly find the precise syntax for a particular piece, this is the place to look. XML in a Nutshell is an essential guide for developers who need to create XML-based file formats and data structures for use in any XML document.

Topics covered:

• XML history
• Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
• Namespaces
• Internationalization Download Now »