As I have been working with clients, it has become obvious that one thing that practitioners need is help creating the infrastructure required to implement XML on a website. XML is an exciting new technology, but it needs software and tools to make it work. Although a little of each of these things is provided in this report, they are merely intended to give a background that will make infrastructure development understandable. There are two main audiences for this report. The first audience is managers, who will find the report to be an excellent overview of technical issues and infrastructure needs.
Managers can read through the report to create a vision of how to support XML for their business.
The technical folks will find the architectural options and the reasons for these options extremely helpful in designing their work. Also, the detailed checklists in the pertinent chapters provide the groundwork for in-depth understanding of product features and why they might matter in various architectural options. The Table of Contents is provided in a PDF file. If you don't have a PDF reader, the Acrobat Reader for PDF files is free. Table of Contents Sample Pages Sample pages of the XML Data Servers report follow.