Elliotte Rusty Harold Books

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This fast-paced and thorough tutorial/reference contains everything an experienced web developer needs to put XML to work on established or new web sites. The book covers the fundamentals of the XML language, with emphasis on the creation of XML pages and their publication on the Web; the integration of XML with HTML, databases, and scripting languages to build complex applications; Cascading Style Sheets and XSL Transformation; and supplemental technologies such as XLinks and XPointers.

A reference to the fundamental rules of XML details tags, grammar, placement, element names, attributes, and syntax

All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. Focusing on Java 5.0 APIs, this book tells you about streams shows you how to control number formatting, use characters aside from the standard ASCII character set, and write multilingual software.

A guide to developing network programs covers networking fundamentals as well as TCP and UDP sockets, multicasting protocol, content handlers, servlets, I/O, parsing, Java Mail API, and Java Secure Sockets Extension.