The main objective here is to combine theory and practice of XML and Java technology on a single, up-to-date source, which is expressly based on the concept underlying XML, and can be consulted time and again to rapidly speed up enterprise application development! It includes all the essential XML topics, including XML Schemas, handle XML documents through XPath, transformation of XML documents using XSLT stylesheets, storage and retrieval of XML content in native XML and relational databases, web applications based on Ajax, and SOAP / HTTP and WSDL based Web Services .