Aside from being a road map for the latest and greatest in what's on the horizon with XML, this book gives you what you need to know to become productive with existing XML tools. The author highlights certain lines of XML code, making it easier to see what's important. After 200 pages of material in depth on how to design XML documents, the book changed to use XML in the actual browser (both Netscape and Internet Explorer). You will learn how to use Java with XML, including navigating the XML Document Object Model (DOM) using IBM's Java XML (XML4J) package. Final sections look at combining XML with Perl and Java (through servlets and JSPS) and gives a glimpse at wireless content created with the Wireless Markup Language (WML). Suitable for any developer or IT manager who needs to understand and use XML, Inside XML provides an authoritative yet approachable source of information on the fast-changing set of standards that is almost sure to revolutionize computing over the next few years -. Richard Dragan Topics covered: a comprehensive introduction to the basics of XML and XML document design tools (including "well-formed" XML, tags and elements, and attributes and namespaces) Document Type Definition (DTD), entities and attributes (including design documents), XML Schemas (using Internet Explorer) Introduction to JavaScript Using JavaScript with XML Document Object Model (DOM), Cascading style sheets (CSS) Overview of basic Java programming IBM XML Parsing XML with Java (XML4J) Java and the Simple API for XML (SAX) XSL transformations (XSL style sheets and XSL formatting objects) XLinks and XHTML Introduction XPointers Resource Description Framework (RDF) Microsoft Channel Definition Format (CDF), Vector Markup Language (vml) Using XML with Java Perl and ASP on the server Quick introduciton into Wireless Markup Language (WML) Reference to the XML 1.0 Specification