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Summary: Great! not an introduction
Review: This book is great if you understand the basics of XML and really want C++ coverage. If you are looking for introductory stuff this is not your book and you might get confused, but if you want a serious and concise work on C++ and XML this is a MUST HAVE.
Great work, much needed on a sea of introductory xml books.
Thank you.
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Summary: Disappointed me and it is not worth its money!
Review: This book is of type, learn processing XML in C++ in 24 hours.
It started out well with decent explanation of SAX and DOM (I personally feel any good c++ programmer can figure the algorithms himself). After that it completely lost track. If some one know the table of contents, he can probably search on google to find articles and bind them to make a book. xml_rpc example was directly copied from the original samples of xml_rpc implementation. For examples, the author kept on jumping from one XML parser to another one. I understand why he did that (because all existing C++ xml parsers lack some thing or other). He probably must have written chapters on XSLT, XPath, XMLRPC, SOAP in a lot of hurry to get the book done.
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Summary: great book for developers - pure C++ XML heaven!
Review: This is a great book for C++ developers working with XML.
Covers SAX 2.0, DOM 2.0 and other parsers (libxml for Linux).
I loved the discussion about XML-RPC and SOAP. This book will probably become THE classic for how to write C++ XML code!
My only complaint is chapter 11 on XSLT transforms is not sufficient. The author has a very readable writing style. This book finally helped me understand one of the most confusing API's, the XSD and XML schema.
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Summary: Clear and Practical
Review: This is a great book. If you are a serious c++ programmer and you
need to use XML this is your book. The book has a lot of examples showing you in a very clear and concise way the integration between c++ and xml. Besides,
you can find here much more than API descriptions because the examples always include design issues.
Rating: 
Summary: Very solid piece of work - ideal size
Review: This is the kind of book that a professional wants at his/hers side. Unlike a book which just spits out the API and some examples, this one delves into the why's and when's with respect to core XML technologies - without a lot of extraneous verbiage. The discussion of the mixing in STL with XML was particularly useful to me. While the coverage of XSLT is somewhat thin in terms of its depth (i.e., explaining XALAN in more detail for example), the examples provided gave me enough to think about. The author's suggestion of using SAX in lieu of XSLT in high performance applications would have been very useful had a "meaty" example been provided. What's the "real" tradeoff in terms of flexibility, performance and productivity. An example here would have made this book a grand slam, for me anyway. The coverage of TREX/RELAX is useful in that I tend to think of XML Schemas as a bloated and unnecessarily complex specification. The author provides some, albeit brief, examples to get started on using this alternative. There is enough there to get someone to "think" about alternatives to DTD's. This isn't a book about hacking XML, if your a committed C++ developer, I think you'll find a lot of very useful material to make it worth the cost of the book.
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Summary: Very solid piece of work - ideal size
Review: This is the kind of book that a professional wants at his/hers side. Unlike a book which just spits out the API and some examples, this one delves into the why's and when's with respect to core XML technologies - without a lot of extraneous verbiage. The discussion of the mixing in STL with XML was particularly useful to me. While the coverage of XSLT is somewhat thin in terms of its depth (i.e., explaining XALAN in more detail for example), the examples provided gave me enough to think about. The author's suggestion of using SAX in lieu of XSLT in high performance applications would have been very useful had a "meaty" example been provided. What's the "real" tradeoff in terms of flexibility, performance and productivity. An example here would have made this book a grand slam, for me anyway. The coverage of TREX/RELAX is useful in that I tend to think of XML Schemas as a bloated and unnecessarily complex specification. The author provides some, albeit brief, examples to get started on using this alternative. There is enough there to get someone to "think" about alternatives to DTD's. This isn't a book about hacking XML, if your a committed C++ developer, I think you'll find a lot of very useful material to make it worth the cost of the book.
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Summary: There are dozens of books on XML and Java and one for C++?
Review: Well I know Java and XML well, I needed a good reference book on "best practices" on using XML with C++, this book is really the only game in town and is quite useful as it covers all the bases. It will get out of date pretty quick as most tech books of this kind do but as a reference it does nicely.
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Summary: There are dozens of books on XML and Java and one for C++?
Review: Well I know Java and XML well, I needed a good reference book on "best practices" on using XML with C++, this book is really the only game in town and is quite useful as it covers all the bases. It will get out of date pretty quick as most tech books of this kind do but as a reference it does nicely.
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Summary: A excellent book for C++ programmers that begin with XML
Review: `C++ XML' does an excellent job addressing the specific (and difficult) issues associated with processing XML in C++. The first hurdle for a C++ programmer who wants to start using XML is to understand the big picture -- what has been done by whom and where.
In the first two chapters, the author does an admirable job of providing this background information. The books then leads the reader through most of the concepts of this flourishing technology in chapters illustrated by accurately commented examples. I am a C++ programmer and an XML beginner. Having read the book, I had my first real purpose SAX parser running in three days.
Incidently I learnt more deeply about XML in this book than in any general purpose XML book although,
as the author stresses, this is not the initial purpose of C++ XML.
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