Howdy Perl-XMLers,

Big news in the Perl/XML World...

_XML Publishing with AxKit_ has been published and is now available at 
bookseller near you! For more information, please see the Table of 
Contents below and visit:

http://www.axkitbook.com/

For those who may not know, AxKit combines the power and flexility of 
many of the Perl community's best XML processing tools with mod_perl to 
create a fully-featured XML application and publishing environement for 
the Apache Web server.

I did my best to make sure that book has something for everyone, 
regardless of their familiarity with AxKit. New users will find detailed 
but concise coverage of the common topics of XML-based publishing, as 
well as need-to-know level introductions to XSLT, XPathScript, and XSP. 
AxKit veterans will find advanced publishing techniques, exhaustive API 
references for each of AxKit components, and clear strategies for (and 
examples of) how to extend AxKit to meet new or specialized requirements.

Thanks for enduring my little pitch; we now return you to your regularly 
scheduled XML::Twig discussions, already in progress... ;-)

Cheers,
-kip

ps. I'll be giving a session talk on AxKit at O'Reilly's Open Source 
Convention next week in Portland. If you are attending OSCon (you are, 
aren't you???), feel free to drop by and say 'Hi' (and maybe even get 
your book signed :-) .


Table of Contents:

Preface

1. XML as a Publishing Technology
      Exploding a Few Myths About XML Publishing
      XML Basics
      Publishing XML Content
      Introducing AxKit, an XML Application Server for Apache

2. Installing AxKit
      Installation Requirements
      Installing the AxKit Core
      Installing AxKit on Win 32 Systems
      Basic Server Configuration
      Testing the Installation
      Installation Troubleshooting

3. Your First XML Web Site
      Preparation
      Creating the Source XML Documents
      Writing the Stylesheet
      Associating the Documents with the Stylesheet
      A Step Further: Syndicating Content

4. Points of Style
      Adding Transformation Language Modules
      Defining Style Processors
      Dynamically Choosing Style Transformations
      Style Processor Configuration Cheatsheet

5. Transforming XML Content with XSLT
      XSLT Basics
      A Brief XSLT Cookbook

6. Transforming XML Content with XPathScript
      XPathScript Basics
      The Template Hash: A Closer Look
      XPathScript Cookbook

7. Serving Dynamic XML Content
      Introduction to eXtensible Server Pages
      Other Dynamic XML Techniques

8. Extending AxKit
      AxKit's Architecture
      Custom Plug-ins
      Custom Providers
      Custom Language Modules
      Custom ConfigReaders
      Getting More Information

9. Integrating AxKit with Other Tools
      The Template Toolkit
      Providing Content via Apache::Filter

Appendix: AxKit Configuration Directive Reference

Index

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