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XML is greatly over hyped technology. But in moderate doses it is useful and permit conversion to several formats using well developed tools (XSLT). Old O'Reilly The XML CD Bookshelf can serve as a cheap and not bad start.
by Erik T. Ray, Jason McIntosh
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Based on 11 reviews.
Complete with great examples., February 27, 2003
This book definitely covers the state of Perl and XML. It goes over the most important modules, in great detail and providing concrete examples. I especially like the first two chapters, which in detail get you prepared for the rest of the book. The coverage of XML parsing theory was a great topic to cover. Two large chapters, each dedicated to SAX and DOM respectively, covered both parsing technologies in great detail. |
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by Scott Bonneau, Tammy Kohl, Jeni Tennison
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Good transition book from HTML, CSS --> XML, June 13,
2001
LONGER: The reasons that other people have given for not
liking this book are some of the same reasons that I find it
useful. I'm pretty well-versed in HTML and have some basic understanding
of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets. This book goes into
detail about both and gives comparisons and evolutions that
involve XML. I'm about halfway through it at the moment, and
it's giving me a clear, not-to-technical view of XML. The other
books I have go straight into the code, telling me HOW but not
really explaining the WHY of everything. That's what makes this
book great to me. The first half deals with explanation and
presentation, while the last half is more code-heavy. The two
other books I have strive to be highly technical, but proved
to be a bit overwhelming for me as a complete newbie to the
subject of XML. 23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
The title also has many errors, so the errata list on the publisher's web site is important. The book does not include any of the source code, so if you want that, you have to download it. Even then, it is not complete and file titles in the book do not always match the provided code file names. If you are looking for a hands-on book to learn XML, this
isn't the title. If you know XML and are looking for a reference,
again - not for you. However, if you are interested in it from
more of an administrative overview position, then the title
is worth the read. It can provide many answers and give a good
base of information without the need to actually write any XML
on your own. |
Paperback -
425 pages 1 edition (December 14, 1999)
Que; ISBN: 0789722429
; Dimensions (in inches): 1.22 x 9.10 x 7.38
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Very good book to start learning XML |
April 17, 2000 |
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| Reviewer: Armen Jamkotchian (see more about me) from Los Angeles, California, USA | |||
| I found this book to be excellent to start learning XML. If you want to understand what XML is all about without getting into scholastics, buy it. It doesn’t overwhelm the reader with endless empiric discussions and takes the shortest routes to get you to the point. That is what makes this book valuable for professional programmers who need a quick “jump-start” on XML. The examples are simple and easy to understand. However you should clearly understand that this book is not about sophisticated applications of XML. If you are already familiar with the basic concepts of XML and have some practical experience with it, you most likely will not find this book very useful. | |||
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Great Book -- For Java Programmers Only. |
April 11, 2000 |
| Reviewer: christian nuesa (see more about me) from California, USA | ||
| This book has given me great understanding about XML and its power when mix with Java. What I also love about this book is the example of an eCommerce with XML and Java as its backbone. You’ll really see the role of XML on the web application. I highly recommend this to Java programmers only. If your not you may wanna read about java first. | ||
Textbook Binding - 400 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (December 21, 1999)
Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0130866016 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x 9.24
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MICHAEL FLOYD is a veteran technical journalist and is currently serving as the Beyond HTML columnist and Editor-at-Large at Web Techniques magazine. He was a longtime editor at the prestigious Dr. Dobb's Journal and now publishes BeyondHTML.com, an experimental Web site based on his writings on XML.
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A practical guide for webmasters |
February 15,
2000 |
| Reviewer: Edward P. Hughes from USA | ||
| As the title suggests, this book is targeted for Webmasters with some knowledge of client-side scripting assumed. The examples are clear and most are general enough to be usable in any website. Later parts of the book go into short descriptions of XML-related products currently on the market and their inevitable quirks (most being beta code). Much of this would have been better handled with a link to the author's website considering that a good deal of this info may be obsolete in a few weeks. In the same vein, the included CD which includes a small example website done using XML could have easily been provided online, reducing the overall cost of the book. | ||
Paperback -
448 pages 2nd edition (September 1999)
IDG Books Worldwide; ISBN:
076453310X
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XML technology in its dawn | January 21, 2000 |
| Reviewer: Lubomir Masar from Houston, Texas | ||
| The recent book by Simon St. Laurent brought me really delectable reading about things I have never heard before. Nonetheless, it tremendously instigated my interest in this field. As for the content of his book, I highly value very comprehensible style with many straighforward examples and even more references to websites. The book is not just a primer - I consider it small beginner's encyclopaedia to the future of web. We may wish more such books by him, e.g. about CSS and topics related to XML documents formatting. If I could dare to evaluate the book in brief, I would say: well done! | ||
Contents
- Ch. 1. Internets
- Ch. 2. XML, Data, and Documents
- Ch. 3. XML and SGML Tools
- Ch. 4. The Desperate Perl Hacker and Internet Applications: Overview
- Ch. 5. An XML Bulletin Board
- Ch. 6. An XML Contact Database
- Ch. 7. Structure-based search
- Ch. 8. Type Transformation, Import, and Export
- Ch. 9. XML E-mail
- Ch. 10. XML Parsers and Application Programmer Interfaces
- Ch. 11. Input Gathering and Negotiation using XML
In XML in Action, William J. Pardi gives you a feel for what Microsoft is throwing into the mix by providing a general introduction to XML, with a focus on Internet Explorer 5.0's implementation in particular.
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XML Pocket Reference by Robert Eckstein. Paperback (October 1999) |
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Paperback - 426 pages 1st edition (April 1999)
Wrox Press Inc; ISBN: 1861002289 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.14 x 9.18 x 7.26
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Quite a valuable resource |
March 22, 2000 |
| Reviewer: A reader from Seattle, Washington | ||
| This MS-centric book is an easy read with great
detail on some of the mysterious aspects of XML that are not covered
in other books. XMLHTTP, DTDs, XSL and Schema are all very well
explained with supporting examples.
I must recommend that you buy this book instead of, or at least before Alex Homer's WROX book, "XML IE5 Programmer's Reference". This book will help you more easily learn the technology and how to make it work in your architecture. |
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XML IE5 Programmer's Reference
Mass Market Paperback - 479 pages First edition (June 1999)
Wrox Press Inc; ISBN: 1861001576 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.02 x 9.01 x 6.04
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Best book I've found, but there's room for improvement. |
December 3, 1999 |
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| Reviewer: Alex Strasheim (see more about me) from Chicago, IL | |||
| The new XML features in IE5 are exciting, and we're starting to use XML to publish complicated db data on the web. This book got me up and running, so I've gotten a lot of use out of it. But my feeling is that no one has really figured out how to explain XML very well, and this book, like all of the other XML books I've read, seemed a little muddled and difficult to read. The first four chapters of the book are devoted to XML theory and descriptions of the various technologies MS uses, and I found them a little confusing, despite the fact that I was already running some of the XML-Apache code. For me, though, the bottom line is that the technology is so useful and exciting that it's worth expending a little extra effort to pick it up. If someone knows of a better book, email me and let me know. But for now, as far as I know this is an imperfect book that's the best way to learn an important new technology. For that reason, I recommend it. | |||
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Good programmer's introduction to XML |
August 11, 1999 |
| Reviewer: Bill DuBay (bdubay@earthlink.net) from Costa Mesa, California | ||
| Author Alex Homer (NOT Horner) tackles the difficult task of explaining XML--for which the standards are not yet nailed down, but which Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 browser supports in its own peculiar way. The book is aimed at programmers already doing Web-based programming who want to manipulate XML documents on the Web. There are two key technologies supported in IE5 and described in this book. One is the Data Source Object, which can be used to process XML documents set up like a database. It requires that each XML record have the same kind and number of elements, like records in a database. The other technology is the XML Document Object Model, an Application Program Interface that lets Web programmers manipulate XML documents of different structures (using programming script). One chapter that does not seem to require any script writing is the one covering stylesheets, CSS and XSL, with which you can display XML documents nearly anyway you want in IE5. Finally, there are several chapters of references for XML and IE5 that should be of great help to any Web programmer itching to get into XML. The hands-on examples of code are great, often accompanied by links to the publisher's Web site, where you can download updates and source-code examples. | ||
Paperback - 320
pages (December 27, 1999)
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing;
ISBN: 007212220X ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.73 x 8.92 x 5.93
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Paperback - 1015 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (July 1999)
IDG Books Worldwide; ISBN: 0764532367 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.94 x 9.19 x 7.42
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Stephen Mohr (Editor),
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Michael Kay,
stev Livingstone,
Didier Martin,
Dino Esposito,
Steven Livingston,
Brian Loesgen,
Nikola Ozu,
Mark Seabourne
Paperback - 750 pages
1st edition (January 2000)
Wrox Press Inc; ISBN: 1861003110
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Good reference book, not a learning one |
March 20, 2000 |
| Reviewer: Maxime Bombardier (see more about me) from Montrйal, Canada | ||
| I've found this book very hard to understand as
a first book on XML. If you know what XML is about but are looking
for practical real-life exemples, look elsewhere. If you know XML
and want to know everything about it's internal work and how to
work with DTD, that would be your book.
I've also ordered the Professional XML IE5 Programmer's Reference at the same time and this book gave me an overview of what I can do with XML on the Internet and THEN I had an idea of what to do of the Professional XML book. You have to ask you those questions : Do I need to know how to show XML with XSL, ASP, DHTML, HTML? If yes, look elsewhese first. Do I need an XML reference to know how to create XML files? If yes, look no further. |
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by Erik T. Ray, Jason McIntosh
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Complete with great examples., February 27, 2003
This book definitely covers the state of Perl and XML. It goes over the most important modules, in great detail and providing concrete examples. I especially like the first two chapters, which in detail get you prepared for the rest of the book. The coverage of XML parsing theory was a great topic to cover. Two large chapters, each dedicated to SAX and DOM respectively, covered both parsing technologies in great detail. |
DocBook: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly XML) -- Norman Walsh, Leonard Muellner; Paperback
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Norman Walsh,
Leonard Muellner
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Paperback - 652
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1565925807 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.36 x 9.16 x 7.05
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Excellent but dense! |
March 2, 2000 |
| Reviewer: Glenn Booker (see more about me) from New Jersey, USA | ||
| This book describes the de facto standard for creating technical documents - the Docbook Data Type Definition (DTD). Docbook is used by most of the major Linux vendors, the Linux Documentation Project, and many large companies. Docbook is a specific set of SGML tags which can be used to create technical books, articles, etc. The book is largely a very clear description of each tag which exists in the Docbook DTD. The appendices cover issues like installation and getting started, which are too brief for my taste. The authors give a brief intro to SGML, describe the structure of a Docbook document, and then jump into the tag descriptions. The problem is, there is no such thing as a Docbook application, like MS Word or something. Either you have to write documents by hand in a text processor (e.g. Notepad or vi), or you need a terribly expensive SGML tool to automate the process for you (e.g. Arbortext's products). It took me quite a while to understand that! | ||
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