1 XML and e-business applications

1.1 About e-business

1.1.1 Business transformation and innovation

1.1.2 Which is the e-business value?

1.1.3 A simplified classification schema for e-business applications

1.2 The Extensible Markup Language (XML)

1.2.1 World Wide Web document standards

1.2.2 A brief history of XML

1.2.3 XML — a universal data format

1.2.4 A short comparison of XML and HTML

1.2.5 XML linking and addressing

1.2.6 Advanced type definitions

1.2.7 Metadata (RDF and PICS)

1.2.8 Domain-specific document definitions

1.2.9 XML in wireless applications

1.2.10 XML styling and transcoding

1.2.11 XML query languages

1.2.12 Processing XML documents

1.2.13 Organizations concerned with XML

1.2.14 Typical applications

1.3 XML and e-business

1.4 Summary