Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours (2nd Edition)

Rating:
Summary: Broad but shallow
Review: What's good: a quick summary of major XML technologies, including DTDs, schemas, XSL, SAX, DOM, and more. This book tells briefly what each does, and gives some idea of how the pieces fit together.

What's not: there's not nearly enough here to get a programmer going on a real XML project.

This may help a beginner get a quick, high-level idea of what the big pieces are and how they fit together. Don't expect to get any real work done once you've read it, though.

//wiredweird

Rating:
Summary: Waste of $$
Review: When I had first delved into it, I thought it had potential. Regrettably, it bogged down quickly and became incomprehensible. I concur with the previous author's statement that he stopped after reading 1/4 and could not continue further. Glad it was a loaner I picked up for curiosity.

Not worth the money.