Despite recognition of the vagueness of understanding technology reader, this book provides a more complete study of XML. Very little space is wasted details the history of XML and its relation to SGML, as happens in other titles. One important distinction of this book is an excellent coverage of related technologies, such as cascading style sheets (CSS) and relational databases. In addition to discussing the crucial companion standards to the core XML language (DTDs, XSL, and XSLT), this book adds a good perspective for applications in which XML can play a role. It's instilling a strong understanding of forest and XML XML tree. Plain Topics covered: Well-formed XML Cascading style sheets (CSS) XSLT and XPath Document Object Model (DOM), Simple API for XML (SAX) XML / database integration schemes Document Type Definition (DTD) Namespaces B2B data transfer applications group discussions