O’Reilly Webcast: Essentials of an XML Workflow
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StartWithXML: Making the Case for Applying XML to a Publishing Workflow $149.99 Publishers face a “Copernican change.” Until recently, the book was “the sun” of a publishing solar system, and all other opportunities were subsidiary rights revolving as planets around it. Now, the intellectual property is the sun, and the book becomes just one of the orbiting opportunities. To be successful in the 21st century environment, publishers must produce agile content: content that can be rendered in different forms without great additional expense. XML provides both a path to agility and opens opportunities for current and future digital content revenue streams. StartWithXML is an industry-wide project to understand and spread the knowledge publishers need to move forward with XML. It’s about the business issues driving the “why” of XML and the technical and organizational issues, strategies, and tactics underlying the “how” of getting started. This research report takes a pragmatic look at XML workflows, addressing questions such as: Where am I and where do I want to end up? How much benefit do I want to obtain from content reuse and repurposing? How much work do I want to do myself? How much time and money will this take? What can I do internally to increase my chances of success? |
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XML $22.99 Offering a unique approach to learning XML, this book walks readers through the process of building a complete, functional, end-to-end XML solution; Featured case study is an online business product catalog that includes reports, data input/output, workflow, stylesheet formatting, RSS feeds, and integration with external services like Google, eBay, and Amazon; The format of presenting a problem and working through the design to come up with a solution enables readers to understand how XML markup allows a business to share data across applications internally or with partners or customers even though they might not use the same applications |
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XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+ $9.99 From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. What in the (real) world could you do with XML if you understood how it works in InDesign? Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes, and building chunks of content that can be reused in multiple publications. In this Short Cut, we’ll play with the contents of a college course catalog and see how we can use XML for course descriptions, tables, and other content. Underlying principles of XML structure, DTDs, and the InDesign namespace will help you develop your own XML processes. The Advanced Topics section gives tips on using XSLT to manipulate XML in InDesign. |
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XML Publishing with Adobe InDesign $9.99 From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes, and building chunks of content that can be reused in multiple publications. In this Short Cut, we’ll play with the contents of a college course catalog and see how we can use XML for course descriptions, tables, and other content. Underlying principles of XML structure, DTDs, and the InDesign namespace will help you develop your own XML processes. We’ll touch briefly on using InDesign to “skin” XML content, exporting as XHTML, InCopy, and the IDML package. The Advanced Topics section gives tips on using XSLT to manipulate XML in conjunction with InDesign. |
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XML Publishing with Axkit $3.98 Web developers rely on XML to separate data from presentation and create a consistent templating system for a web site. Although limited XML-to-HTML conversion is possible within some browsers, web developers creating dynamic or complex sites will find server-side XML transformation a necessity. Unfortunately, until recently, there have been few XML tools available for server-side XML transformation or authoring. AxKit, a mod_perl and Apache-based XML content delivery solution, was designed to meet that need with a cost-effective and efficient plugin architecture. AxKit allows the developer to quickly design modules to create faster web sites, and deliver them in a wide variety of media formats. AxKit also takes care of caching so the developer doesn’t have to worry about it. AxKit meets the demands of the web developer nicely, but, as with any new toolkit, there is a learning curve. For developers who want to flatten that learning curve and get right to work with AxKit, "XML Publishing with AxKit" provides detailed information on how to install, configure, and deploy AxKit effectively. The first book solely devoted to AxKit, "XML Publishing with AxKit" also offers a concise and focused look at how to create XSLT and XPathScript-based pipelines for XML data transfer. This solidly useful new book presents web programmers with the hands-on knowledge they need to get really creative with AxKit. It features a thorough introduction to XSP (extensible Server Pages), which applies the concepts of Server Pages technologies (embedded code, tag libraries, etc) to the XML world, and covers integrating AxKit with other tools such as Template Toolkit, Apache:: Mason, Apache:: ASP, andplain CGI. The book also includes invaluable reference sections on configuration directives, XPathScript, and XSP. With "XML Publishing with AxKit," web developers will have all the tools they need to deliver complex XML-based systems quickly, the power to develop their own systems for style sheet negotiation, and the flexibility to design completely new style sheet languages. "XML Publishing with AxKit" gives those new to XML all the background and the courage they need to jump right in and deploy AxKit. And it gives XML-savvy professionals everything they need to hit the ground running. |
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XML Publishing with AxKit $20.79 Web developers rely on XML to separate data from presentation and create a consistent templating system for a web site… |
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XML and FrameMaker $57.98 This book is designed to teach anyone working in data-intensive publishing how XML can be leveraged to make the job of presenting data easier. While the XML discussions within the book are general, FrameMaker is used for all of the examples since it supports a wide variety of XML import and export options. In addition, author Kay Ethier shows you how FrameMaker’s powerful formatting features lend themselves to publishing XML documentswithout reworking them. This book is written for a professional audience, including writers, database administrators, developers, and production staff. Ethier shows you how to Capture or emit XML from existing documents or databases Use XML to create documents that may be published to many other formats Build an "XML round-trip" for Adobe FrameMaker 7 This book is also a featured publication at the Society for Technical Communication. |
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