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Summary: Worst Book I ever read !
Review: > Very theoritical. The way the book is organized is very confusing and boring. Too many links and pages referred in the examples and lessons are not available any more.I was forced to fill in one Star for the rating in the "Write your review " page. If it was left to me I would have selected ZERO.
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Summary: What a poor excuse for a book
Review: After reading this book, I still find myself asking "How do I use XML in the real world?". Guess I'll be ordering another book from WROX, at least I know what I am getting from them. Don't waste your money on this one...
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Summary: Not too shabby for a Dummies Guide to XML
Review: As a college student that didn't feel like diving directly into XML through some Schildt written book (great books) or what not, I figured that I would play it safe and figure out what the heck XML was. This definitely gives a general idea of how to apply it. The fact that they say that CSS plus XML is a good thing is something that I would have to say is incorrect sadly. Though they definitely do give a good idea of how to put together XML pages and the multiple uses that there are for them. My only suggestion is that after reading this bok it be a a good idea for the reader to pick up a more advanced book to actually put this stuff into any sort of web application.
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Summary: Oh my..
Review: Don't get this one. Wow. Read it, or tried to, several times. E-freaking-gad.
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Summary: incoherent presentation
Review: Even having the background suggested by the authors, this book was not for me. Some of the background of XML is presented but beyond that the book fails. Chapter 3 is confusing in many places unless you know SGML (not a requirement according to the authors). Chapter 4 stops before providing any useful information -- no examples; you are left to read the XML specification. Production errors (e.g. wrong examples used) make this book even more time consuming to grasp the material presented. I found a series of partially explained concepts that left me wondering if any topic would ever be presented sufficiently to understand. Midway through Chapter 6 I decided to find a better way to spend my time. Perhaps it gets better later. I wish I had read reviews before purchasing this book.
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Summary: The Dummies WROTE the book...and BOUGHT it!
Review: Given that this book was written over a year ago and is based on a specification that is STILL changing, I suppose it is too much to ask that it would actually contain some information that is still relevent. Incorrect information and expired links plague this book making it essentially un-usable. Too much emphasis on SGML, and not enough on actually teaching novices how to program in XML.
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Summary: Good to start but not a reference.
Review: Having bought 3 xml books, this one is the one I wish I read first. It does not go into any great depth but is an excellent introduction to XML and why it is different (and needed) from HTML. So, If you want to get a grip on what XML is for under $25, this is 4-5 star book. If you want something to have beside you at your computer, (meaning perhaps not a dummy like meself or the title implies) this is not for you, look else where.
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Summary: Low quality.
Review: I agree with a previous reviewer's observation that portions of the book are verbatim repeats (dare I say cut-&-paste?). I wonder what the ethical implications for such a practice might be (careful IDG, though the cover reads "Dummies," your readers are not).There seemed to be a lot of twoddle in this book ("twoddle" is a Charlotte Mason term meaning, all fluff, little substance). I appreciate IDG's attempt (through the Dummies series) to make technology accessible to the masses. I thought Lowe's Networking for Dummies was very good. Unfortunately, the silly content becomes a liability, particularly as you progress through one of these books. Cutesy prose can be as obstructive as the ostentatious white-paper puffery the Dummies series attempts to avoid. Until IDG does a revision, I recommend borrowing this one from the library, and read it with a mindset to skim. IDG, take this one back to the drawing board (no disrespect intended toward the author).
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Summary: I wish I could rate this NO STAR AT ALL
Review: I don't buy "...for Dummies" books to be directed to read some incomprehensible specification on the web! Seems like the authors' job should be to make the topic comprehensible. FOR A BETTER READ, try the "Project Cool Guide to XML for Web Designers." Even if you're not a Web Designer, it's still a better introduction to XML.
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Summary: STUFFED WITH FLUFF
Review: I finally found out the tie in and conicidence with the *ml books from IDG: They have similat designs and authors. They are going to run the humor element into the ground. It was nice for the begiining topics but now they are trying to this for every topic. This book falls into that category in that every topic that was not previously mentioned in the previous books was glazed over and stuffed with fluff. Just buy HTML for Dummies and More HTML for Dummies and you will have two-thirds of this book.
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