New book teaches how to use Lotus Domino with XML
PRINCETON, NJ., May 16 /ZATZ Newswire/ -- ZATZ Publishing, a leading publisher of special-interest online magazines and e-books for technical consumers and IT professionals today published "Using XML with Domino," the latest in the publishing company's series of technical e-books for IT professionals.
DominoPower Contributing Editor Andrew Stuart explains why XML is a compelling technology in two simple sentences: "Broadly speaking, XML allows anything to talk to anything, quickly and easily. That's no mean feat."
In Using XML with Domino, readers learn how they can use XML (Extensible Markup Language) to help Domino communicate with Excel, Office, a content management system, and more.
It's all in the Using XML with Domino Solutions Guide, the best resource for building great online applications using XML and Domino. The Using XML with Domino Solutions Guide is another in the ZATZ series of Solutions Guides. Each Solutions Guide takes a given topic, like integrating Domino applications with other systems and applications using the power of XML, and combines all the information you need in one easy to read and easy to understand Solutions Guide.
Using XML with Domino presents four excellent articles from DominoPower Magazine. Each article has been updated and re-edited for this Solutions Guide. This guide is provided in Adobe Acrobat format and, of course, the Solutions Guide is completely free of advertisements.
Not only does the book cover the basics of XML, how to get started, and how to make the most of it, it also covers such powerful topics as how to get training, how XML can help you with with a content management system, and even how to integrate your Domino applications with Microsoft Office.
Here's some what's covered in Using XML with Domino:
- Why XML is so important for Domino development
- How you can make Domino talk to anything, quickly and easily
- How you can use XML and Domino to build your own content management system
- Why you might want Domino servers to talk to Microsoft IIS/ASP servers
- Reasons why you might never build an application with the Notes user interface again
- How to separate content from display
- How to design your system so you can easily replace components without breaking the system
- Where you can go to get quality help learning how to use XML with Domino
- Tips for learning about Java agents and servlets
- How to turn a Notes view into an XML-equipped Web page
- How to take one small XML step to convert large amounts of information into flexible Excel pivot tables
- How to use Web agents to work around the limitations of Notes views
- How to make best use of LotusScript Web agents (and three secret principles involved in writing them)
- The convert-any-view-to-HTML agent
- How you can go about marrying all the power of Office to that of Domino
- How Web documents work in Office -- and why that's important to Domino
- Using Java, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets to improve your interface
- How to reference ActiveX components
- How to access all the content and formatting of Office documents without needing to interpret binary files or object model coding
- How you can interact with Office files even if you're not running a "Wintel" server
- How to "insert" Domino added value into the Office document process
- Important XML traps you should avoid
- The three different types of XML data you're find when working with Microsoft documents
- Easy tricks to help you prevent "tag collisions"
- A gentle peek inside the internal structure of Office documents
- And lots more...
Each Solutions Guide is subject to the same high editorial standards and impartial perspective ZATZ brings to all publications. By combining a series of articles and tips into one comprehensive, handy, and incredibly useful Solutions Guide, readers will learn how to turn Domino into an interoperating powerhouse.
Using XML with Domino lists for $79.90, but has an introductory price of $39.95. It is available now from http://store.ZATZ.com.
About ZATZ Publishing
ZATZ Publishing is a leading publisher of special-interest online magazines and e-books for technical consumers and IT professionals. ZATZ publishes popular magazines, including OutlookPower Magazine, PalmPower Magazine, DominoPower Magazine, and PalmPower Magazine's Enterprise Edition (funded by Palm). Together, these publications have nearly one million readers and are the leading monthly magazines in their markets. ZATZ is also a leading publisher of electronic technical books, with thirteen e-books on the market and more arriving every month. To make the ZATZ Publishing process work, ZATZ developed ZENPRESS, a patent-pending software technology for Internet magazine production. For more information, please visit the ZATZ Web site at http://www.ZATZ.com or call (732) 422-6990.
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