Imperfect XML: Rants, Raves, Tips, and Tricks … from an Insider

XML projects can fail for all kinds of reasons, from unrealistic overall goals to mishandled low-level technical decisions. Fortunately, one of the world’s leading XML experts is ready to show you how to avoid XML pitfalls on your next project.

Since its invention, David Megginson has been helping to drive XML to new levels. He led the team that developed the SAX streaming API now used worldwide, has been a key contributor to the World Wide Web Consortium, and has served as a consultant to many of the world’s leading companies, including Boeing, Reuters, and McGraw-Hill. Drawing on this vast experience, Megginson offers in this book expert solutions and problem-solving guidance for virtually any XML project challenge. You’ll discover best practices for planning, budgeting, scheduling, and managing any XML project: content management, data interchange, legacy integration, or Web services. And you’ll find technical insights that only an expert like Megginson can offer.

Coverage includes

• Setting expectations and planning for extensibility– key success factors in XML projects
• Choosing standards, technical approaches, and architecture
• Overcoming hidden pitfalls in single-source publishing from XML source
• Intelligent searching with XML: essential design and implementation strategies
• Using XML in enterprise integration: practical realities and workarounds
• Scaling smoothly from demo to production system
• Making XML fast: real help for overcoming XML performance problems
• Managing the security risks associated with sending XML data across the Internet
• Recognizing when XML technology is wrong for your project

From start to finish, Imperfect XML presents a clear-eyed view of XML’s advantages and limitations–and technical and management solutions proven to make it work.

About the Author

David Megginson, principal of Megginson Technologies, has been active within the SGML and XML communities since 1991. He led the original initiative that created SAX, the leading streaming API for XML that has been implemented in products by IBM, Oracle, Apache, and Sun. He also chaired the XML Information Set Working Group at the W3C Consortium and was a member of its XML Working Group. In 2000, he received the Java Technology Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Java Community from Sun and JavaPro magazine.

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