Professional Xml (Programmer to Programmer): 2nd Edition

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Summary: Incredibly Confusing and Unorganized
Review: ....but with 12 authors what would you expect. You get to a part where it seems important information is about to be revealed and then the author(s) write that we'll get to that later. Example code is horrible and does not track well with the book. For instance, where is interactive.xsl?

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Summary: Informative but confusing
Review: Although the book is full of in depth information, it lacks examples on how to apply the information in a real application. The book does provide code snippets, but does not really explain step by step what the code does. You're left trying to figure it out on your own and in many cases you end up more confused. The book is hard to follow. In certain chapters the author goes on and on about programming ideology - who cares, let's get on with learning XML.

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Summary: For In-depth XML Ideas
Review: Another excellent book by Wrox. Heed this books title "Professional XML". The strong point in this book for me was its in-depth DTD and WML coverage. I haven't found a book yet that describes WML as well, or at all for that matter.

I also plan on purchasing XSLT Reference Guide (also by Wrox) since this book doesn't go quite as far as I'd like into XSLT.

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Summary: Excellent for Learning XML
Review: Awesome "self-teach" book. I've been programming for years, but was new to XML and needed to start using it in my applications, so I had just the very basic concepts of what XML was before I started reading. This book is very complete, gives tons of practical examples and guidelines, and provides many external references. This is the ONLY book you will need to learn XML effectively on your own.

As others have stated here, the only real downside to the book is that it repeats many concepts more than once, so it is NOT the best choice for a reference book.

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Summary: Not for beginners
Review: For experienced XML developers, the book may be useful as a reference. However, I cannot recommend it as a tutorial. The book goes into far too much arcane detail about subjects such as character sets (UNICODE, etc...), entity and attribute naming conventions, and so forth; while giving examples somewhat short shrift. It does not develop topics from the simple to the complex - rather, it examines each topic in mind-boggling detail, with the result that one has not digested the basics of a topic before being overwhelmed with the specifics.

Perhaps as I gain experience with XML this book will become more useful, but for now I'll be looking for a more basic reference.

Sean

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Summary: Where can I find the source code?
Review: Hi, All

I bought the Professinal XML 2nd editon and quite like it so far. However I could not download any source code form www.wrox.com anymore, would anyone help to tell me where I can find a complete copy of the source code? Could some one help to email me one? My email address is [e-mail]. I really appreciate your help.

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Summary: An XML book is finally here!
Review: I am very pleased. Great job by the authors. My other 4 XML books are now supporting my Monitor, where they belong. The XSL, DTDs, Schemas, SOAP, XPath chapters and examples were excellent.

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Summary: I need exmple source code!
Review: I bought the book,but I can't download source code from www.wrox.com now ,anyone can help me? My email is [e-mail],can somebody email me the exmple source code?Thanks a lot!

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Summary: An excellent guide to programmers
Review: I could find all XML releated subjects in the topics of this book i.e. XML syntax, Document Type Definitions (DTD), data modeling, Document Object Model (DOM), Simple API for XML (SAX) 1.0, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), , namespaces, schemas, linking, XML--database integration, server to server transfers, eBusiness applications, and SOAP.

It is very usuful for beginners and some advanced programmers in XML. Thanks to authors for this collabrative study.

Volkan Evrin

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Summary: Poor Style and Organization
Review: I found this book very boring and tedious reading. The style of the book seems to vary as much as the number of authors. The concepts don't smoothly flow together. The book is a hodgepodge of technical information presented in patches by a huge bunch of authors. Obviously this book was an attempt to bring to market a book on XML as quickly as possible. The book doesn't provide enough examples or applications although it does present many examples on syntax. This may be a good reference book, but to really learn how to use XML I'm searching for another book.