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Contents
Figures...................................................vii
Tables.....................................................xi
Preface...................................................xiii
The team that wrote this redbook. ..................................xiv
Commentswelcome............................................. xv
Part 1. Introduction to e-business and XML ..................................1
Chapter 1. XML and e-business applications .....................3
1.1 About e-business . . .......................................3
1.1.1 Business transformation and innovation . . . .................5
1.1.2 Whichisthee-businessvalue? ..........................7
1.1.3 A simplified classification schema for e-business applications . . . 8
1.2 The Extensible Markup Language (XML) ......................15
1.2.1 World Wide Web document standards ....................16
1.2.2 AbriefhistoryofXML.................................16
1.2.3 XML—auniversaldataformat .........................18
1.2.4 AshortcomparisonofXMLandHTML....................19
1.2.5 XML linking and addressing . ...........................20
1.2.6 Advancedtypedefinitions..............................21
1.2.7 Metadata (RDF and PICS) . . ...........................21
1.2.8 Domain-specificdocumentdefinitions.....................22
1.2.9 XMLinwirelessapplications............................23
1.2.10 XMLstylingandtranscoding...........................24
1.2.11 XML query languages................................25
1.2.12 ProcessingXMLdocuments...........................25
1.2.13 Organizations concerned with XML......................29
1.2.14 Typicalapplications .................................30
1.3 XMLande-business......................................31
1.4 Summary..............................................34
Chapter 2. Introduction to IBM e-business solutions..............35
2.1 IBMe-businesscycle.....................................35
2.2 IBMApplicationFrameworkfore-business.....................37
2.2.1 Using an asset-based approach . . . ......................38
2.2.2 OverviewoftheIBMApplicationFramework................42
2.2.3 Patternsfore-business................................51
2.3 Summary..............................................57
