Preface

“Hey, you got peanut butter on my chocolate bar!”

“No way, you got chocolate in my peanut butter!”

If you consider data management (DM) as peanut butter and XML as chocolate—and you like the combination—then you will easily understand what we are attempting to explain in this book. If you don’t like the combination of peanut butter and chocolate, then pick your own favorite flavor combination. We like the yin and yang analogy, but you should go for some combination that works together. These analogies have helped the literally thousands who we have assisted or have seen us present on XML and DM topics over the past few years.

You may be confused by XML hype but nevertheless you are intrigued as to what it—XML, that is—is all about. ...

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