Divided into two parts, this book describes the technical features of each standard of web technologies, compares closely related technologies and shows how to implement them in various application scenarios. It is for students on web development or XML courses, and for practitioners seeking to improve their insight into this subject area.

    This thoroughly class tested text and online tutorial gives a complete introduction to the essentials of the XML standard. It will teach students how to apply web technologies to develop XML based web applications. Through the book, the student will build applications that work together to construct interesting and workable web applications.

Pert 1 HTML and Web pages
Pert 2 XML documents
Pert 3 Navigating XML trees with XPath
Pert 4 Schema languages
Pert 5 Transforming XML documents with XSLT
Pert 6 Querying XML documents with XQuery
Pert 7 XML programming
Pert 8 The HTTP protocol
Pert 9 Programming Web applications with servlets
Pert 10 Programming Web applications with JSP
Pert 11 Web services
Pert 12 A complete application