Definitive XML Application Development

This is the home page of my book 'Definitive XML Application Development', published by Prentice-Hall. The book is about developing applications that use XML in general, and focuses on general issues and techniques, but uses Python as the example language in most of the book. There is a separate set of chapters that deal with how to apply the concepts taught in the book in Java.

The structure of the book is roughly as follows:

• a general introduction to XML programming issues,
• an introduction to event-based programming, with a focus on SAX,
• an introduction to tree-based programming, with a focus on the DOM,
• an introduction to declarative XML development, with a focus on XSLT,
• coverage of more general issues like other approaches to XML development, working with schemas/DTDs and some larger examples, and,
• a set of chapters showing how to use SAX, the DOM and XSLT in Java applications.

You can see more details in the table of contents.

News

• 2002-07-25: Following the Amazon sales rank of your book can get quite addictive, but I've now come up with a solution.
• 2002-07-14: The first erratum has been found...
• 2002-06-17: The example source code is now available.
• 2002-06-06: I have finally gotten a copy of the book! It looks quite good.
• 2002-05-21: The printed book has now arrived at Prentice-Hall, and is being sent out to bookstores. This probably means that US bookstores will have it early July.
• 2002-04-11: We expect the final typeset pages to be delivered tomorrow. This means that Prentice-Hall will have the book in their warehouse in mid-June, and that it will appear in US bookstores in early to mid July. Bookstores elsewhere in the world should get it in August-September.
• 2002-04-08: The final text of the book has now been delivered to the publisher.

More information

• The ISBN number of the book is: 0-13-088902-4.
• Once the book is published, I will start collecting errata.
• The example source code is available for download.
• The book is listed on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
• The publishers, Prentice-Hall also list it. From their pages you can also get the preface and a sample chapter.
• For those who read Norwegian there is also a little presentation about it, from a talk I gave at a meeting held by XML Brukergruppe Norge.
• If you have questions, email me.