XML Books

"250 HTML and Web Design Secrets" by Molly E. Holzschlag 

Covers topics such as HTML, XHTML, CSS, graphics and multimedia, cell phone and PDA accessibility, content development, tools, usability, information architecture, globalization, and site redesign

 

XML Processing with Perl, Python, and PHP

 The only book that focuses on the usage of XML with the most popular scripting languages, including Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Rebol, TCL, and Mac OS X's AppleScript.
-Complete coverage of the core XML processing issues, including the basics of parsing XML documents, converting XML to and from different formats and translating objects for use with databases.
-This book goes beyond the basics into advanced topics, such as using the SAX API for Perl, and using SOAP and XML-RPC to share XML formatted information over a network connection. 

System Architecture with XML

System Architecture with XML brings together object-oriented and relational theory with XML best practice, and it introduces a wide-ranging survey of current techniques and cutting-edge tools for XML application developers. I recommend it to anyone wanting to learn the basics and beyond about the design of XML systems. In a fast moving, dynamic environment like XML and system design, it is hard to keep up and understand the principles underlying the technologies. In System Architecture with XML, Daum and Merten capture the fundamentals of three fields that are shaping XML in a way provides insight critical to building effective and persistent XML based system architectures

 

Real World XML by Steven Holzner

 Updated to cover all the new and exciting features in XML, Inside XML, Second Edition, is the foundational book any developer or programmer will need. Full of thousands of real world examples, this book covers the latest developments in XML such as: web services (Soap, etc.), the newest update to the Schema specification, Java and XML support, New IE6 and Netscape 6 XML features, the latest changes with XSLT and XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO), Wireless Markup Language, XML and JavaScript, all the latest in W3C specs on XML, XLink, XPointer, XPath, etc., and more! As with the previous edition, Inside XML, Second Edition is a step ahead of its competition because it covers both the Microsoft and non-Microsoft approach to XML programming.