Integrating XML Skills
One of the first concepts you learned in Chapter 10 is that the various parts of the XML family must be considered together if they are to be used productively. However, to best use XML technologies in many situations, you will need to use some (or occasionally many) of the XML family with non-XML technologies.
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Suppose that your data source is in a non-XML format. You will need to know how to convert from that format, which may be proprietary, to XML for further processing by an XSLT engine, for example. Many manufacturers of relational databases are in the ...
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