Content Management with XML

A concise introduction to the demands of modern publishing and the goals and methods of content management. It explains the various XML standards in this context, concentrating on their purpose and logical structure. While the book focuses on publishing-related XML standards, it does not neglect to discuss emerging XML standards in the e-business arena, such us SOAP. In addition, the book supplies a technical toolbox, explaining databases, graphs, trees, parsers and the like. Last but not least, technologies for multimedia and internet publishing are demonstrated. The subject is therefore treated in a self-contained manner, providing everything necessary for a good understanding of the technology and its inner workings. TOC:From the Contents:.- Why another book on XML?.- Part I: The Information Systems Angle.- Content and Publishing.- Documents in Detail.- Building Principles.- The Fine Print.- The Role of the Application.- Documents for Machine Communication.- Content Management.- Structured Publishing.- Software Based Content Management.- Content Management as Process and System.- XML – A first Look.- Roots and Goals of XML.- The Basic Concepts of XML.- Part II: A Look inside the Gear Box.- Processing Languages.- The Ticket to Automation.- Bridging the Linguistic Gap.- Formal Languages.- Scanners and Parsers.- Pragmatics and Formal Languages.- XML – a Close Up Look.- XML for Content Management.- Hypermedia.- Transforming and Formatting.- Multimedia.- Modelling Semantic.- Part III: XML based Content Management for Real.- Types of XML based Content Management Components.- Products, Components and Concepts.- Building a CM Production Chain with XML Components.- Real Life Products.