Prentice Hall PTR, 2003. – 576 p.
ISBN: 0-13-142193-X.
Charles F. Goldfarb (the inventor of SGML) and Priscilla Walmsley (a consultant specializing in XML architecture) explain what XML and schemas are all about, how they help users share information, and how desktop XML enables easy integration of Office apps with back-end data sources and Web services. Individual chapters concentrate on topics like basic concepts, creating documents, spreadsheets, forms, web-based publishing, the XML language, XPath, datatypes, and web services technologies.
What do you give the software that has everything?
Who is this book for?
How much XML?
About the products
How to use this book
Foreword: A new era for XML, a new beginning for office documents
Introducing Desktop XML
Desktop XML: The reason why Introductory Discussion
Office before XML
Office documents as information assets
Enterprise data integration
Next stop: the Web
What next?
XML concepts for Office users Introductory Discussion
Formatting markup
Generalized markup
Elements and the logical structure
Well-formedness and validity
XML and the World Wide Web
Namespaces
Other XML constructs
More on XML
XML in Office Introductory Discussion
Information capture and reuse
End-user data connection
Data-driven application enhancement
Working with XML in Office
Creating and editing XML documents Word Power User Task
Creating and using schemas
Opening a document
Validation
The XML Structure task pane
Working with attributes
Saving a document
Combining documents
Rendering and presenting XML documents Word Power User Task
Word Markup Language (WordML)
Mixing WordML with other vocabularies
Creating WordML with stylesheets
Using external XML data in documents Word Script Developer Task
External XML documents
SOAP Web services
Using XML data in spreadsheets Excel Power User Task
Why use XML with Excel?
The Worldwide Widget expense report
Worksheets, maps and schemas
Importing and exporting XML data
Mapping from an existing XML document
Data analysis
More complex XML documents
XMLSS: The Excel XML vocabulary
Using Web services with spreadsheets Excel Script Developer Task
Analyzing stock quotes with a REST Web service
Currency conversion with a SOAP Web service
Other approaches
The Excel Object Model
Designing and using forms InfoPath Power User Task
Forms on steroids
Using a form
Designing a form
Using scripts with forms InfoPath Script Developer Task
Why use scripts?
A simple sample script
Script files and forms
Events
Launching Script Editor
The InfoPath object model
Using scripts for validation
Calculations
Inserting XML nodes
Additional features
Using secondary data sources with forms InfoPath Script Developer Task
Defining a secondary data source
Secondary XML documents
Databases
SOAP Web services
Access databases and XML Office Power User Task
Why use XML with Access?
Our example database
Exporting Access tables
Exporting other objects
Applying a transform on export
Importing XML data
Publishing XML to the Web with FrontPage Office Power User Task
Why use FrontPage with XML?
Web design by example
Set up the website
Choose a data source
Create a data view
Organize the viewed data
Format the view
Developing Office XML applications Office Script Developer Task
Smart documents
Smart tags
The research pane
XML expansion packs and manifests
XML Tutorials
The XML language Friendly Tutorial
Syntactic details
Prolog vs. instance
The document instance
The prolog
Entities: Breaking up is easy to do
Character references
Suppressing markup recognition
Comments
Processing instructions
Office support for the XML language
Namespaces Friendly Tutorial
The namespaces solution
XPath primer Friendly Tutorial
Location paths
Addressing multiple objects
Children and descendants
Attributes
Predicates
The XPath data model
XSL Transformations (XSLT) Friendly Tutorial
Transforming vs. rendering
XSLT stylesheets
Using HTML with XSLT
Rules, patterns and templates
Creating a stylesheet
Top-level instructions
Variables and parameters
Parameters
Extending XSLT
Referencing XSLT stylesheets
Web services introduction Introductory Discussion
Communication protocols
Amazon
Google
Service discovery
Web services for the REST of us!
Security
XML Jargon Demystifier Introductory Discussion
Structured vs. unstructured
Tag vs. element
Document type, DTD, and markup declarations
Schema and schema definition
Document, XML document, and instance
What's the meta?
Documents and data
And in conclusion
Datatypes Friendly Tutorial
Built-in datatypes
Defining user-derived datatypes
Constraining facets
XML Schema (XSDL) Tad Tougher Tutorial
A simple sample schema
Elements and types
Structure of a schema definition
Declaring schema conformance
Schema inclusion
Additional capabilities
Web services technologies Tad Tougher Tutorial
Web Services Description Language
UDDI
Implementation
XML Path Language (XPath) Tad Tougher Tutorial
The XPath data model
Location paths
ID function