This book carefully explains XML-based systems development, including programming multi-tier, client/ server, database-oriented, Internet and World-Wide-Web-based applications. Includes CD-ROM. Preface, Introduction to the Internet and World Wide Web, Creating Markup with XML, Document Type Definition, Schemas, Simple API for XML (SAX), XML Path Language (XPath), X Link and XPointer and XI Include and X Base, Server-Side Java Programming, Accessibility, XHTML and X Forms, XML Technologies and Applications, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Microsoft BizTalk, HTML Special Characters, HTML Colors, ASCII Character Set, Operator Precedence Charts, Number Systems, Career Resources, Bibliography, Index.