Technical book publisher O’Reilly announced on Tuesday the publication of Michael Fitzgerald’s “XML Hacks” (US$24.95), a 460-page tome that documents “100 industrial-strength tips and tools” for working with XML (Extensible Markup Language). The book offers hacks for beginning, intermediate and advanced users, offering such tips as creating and editing XML documents with different applications, transforming such application files as iTunes collection data into HTML, converting XML documents into PDF files and SVG graphics, creating and subscribing to RSS and Atom news feeds and more. The O’Reilly Web site offers 10 sample hacks as downloadable PDF files.
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