XML is one of the most exciting recent developent to hit the World Wide Web, enabling the further expansion of Web technology into new domains of content management, audience-targeted presentation, and distributed document processing. This is the ideal reference with clarity, comprehensive coverage, and precision to get people up to speed on XML. Neil Bradley provides all users and potential users of the XML format with an accessible, in-depth reference to release 1.0 of the standard. The XML Companion provides an accessible and comprehensive description of each XML feature, and includes a series of \'Road Map\' charts that reveal the structure of the XML standard. It also fully covers the proposed Linking and Stylesheet standards. Finally, the book contains an extensive glossary of XML and related terminology.