This book presents an insightful view of XML that places this emerging technology in the context of the ongoing Web revolution. Written for business and technical professionals, this book revals the true value of XML for distributed information systems. It explains how XML is transforming the way organizations manage data and build software systems details the opportunities the language offers for organizatoins that understand tis significance and potential impact and explains how XML and Web services reflect a fundamental shift in software construction-from monolithic applications to software based on the composition of simple parts.
