XML is the Extensible Markup Language. It is designed to improve the functionality of the Web by providing more flexible and adaptable information identification. XML Made Simple provides a brief introduction to XML for the person who favours home study and self teaching and does not have expensive computing facilities to learn on. XML Made Simple can be used by anybody running Windows and an entry-level database package. This book: *Introduces the basic concepts of XML *Shows step by step how to build an XML document and website driven by XML *Introduces XSL, XSLT, XPath, and XSL Formatting Objects *Looks at packages that can help you produce XML software

ASP Made Simple

by Sharon Deane and Robert Henderson

Published 24 March 2003
ASP Made Simple provides a brief introduction to ASP for the person who favours self teaching and/or does not have expensive computing facilities to learn on. The book will demonstrate how the principles of ASP can be learned with an ordinary PC running Personal Web Server, MS Access and a general text editor like Notepad.

After working through the material readers should be able to:

* Write ASP scripts that can display changing information on a web browser
* Request records from a remote database or add records to it
* Check user names & passwords and take this knowledge forward, either for their own web-development projects or as a stepping-stone to understanding more formal texts