This book focuses primarily on XML itself. It covers the fundamental rules that all XML documents and authors must adhere to, whether a web designer uses SMIL to add animations to web pages or a C++ programmer uses SOAP to exchange serialized objects with a remote database. This book also covers generic supporting technologies that have been layered on top of XML and are used across a wide range of XML applications.
writing these tutorials it has been assumed that the reader has a fundamental Windows programming background and is also familiar with the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). The reader need not have any background in OpenGL
This book is the product of a twenty-year resarch project at Rice University
to develop fundamental compiler technologies for vector and parallel
computer systems. The effort was by Randy Allen and Ken Kennedy with the help of David Kuck and Michael Wolfe.
