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Definitive XML Schema, 2nd Edition

Contains an in-depth coverage of the approved W3C Recommendation XML Schema design. This book introduces practical techniques for writing schemas to support any B2B, Web service, or content processing application. It includes working with schemas such as: Schema composition, instance validation, documentation, namespaces, and more.

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Definitive XML Schema covers the following topics:

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 will 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 maintenance
• Design considerations in creating schemas for relational and object-oriented models, narrative content, and Web services
• An all-new chapter on assertions
• Coverage of new 1.1 features, including overrides, conditional type assignment, open content and more
• Modernized rules for naming and design
• Substantially updated coverage of extensibility, reuse, and versioning
• And 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.

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About the Author

Priscilla Walmsley serves as Managing Director of Datypic, a contract software development company specializing in XML architecture and design, SOA and Web services implementation, and content management. She is the author of Definitive XML Schema.

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