Business To Business (B2B)

As a data exchange standard, XML is not as efficent as many standards already in use, but it is very useful where organizations are "loosely coupled" yet need to reliably exchange information.

Resources

• Building Business-to-Business Applications - Sun Microsystems

Topics

Summary

HTML Is Not Enough

What Is XML?
  Ontologies
  SGML, HTML, & XML

XML Basics
  HTML Example
  XML File
  Structure
  Paths
  Well-Formed
  DTDs
  Schemas
  Validation
  Unicode
  What It Means

Transforming For
Presentation
  DHTML
  CSS
  XSL

Serving And Processing XML
  Server Side
  Client Side

XML Applications   Information Reuse
  B2B
  Text Encoding
  Syndication

Security

XML Resources On The Web

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