Hour 20. Creating an Online Bookstore

So far, this book has focused on demonstrating principles rather than the real-world applications of those principles. In this and the following two hours, you're going to put all of that background knowledge to use.

The scenario is a simple one: Your business sells books online, and you're going to use XML to build a basic retail site on the Web. Although not every possible feature will be constructed, the site will be functional.

In this hour, you'll learn the following:

  • The structure of the data entries in your catalog of books

  • The structure of the data object containing additional information about the books in your catalog

  • The structure of the data object used to store the information about a purchased ...

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