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Summary: good
Review: This is a good book,any one who wants to buy only one book to understand XML and Technologies should buy this book.
This is complete book of XML.
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Summary: Outstanding book!
Review: This is an outstanding book. Everything I need, I found here. Great for beginners, great for experts, because there's so much covered. It's the perfect blend of theory and example (it's got hundreds of examples) and written in a style that makes it all clear. And as other reviewers have said, it's comprehensive. Very highly recommended!
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Summary: Incredible!!!!!!! ONE OF A KIND
Review: This is by far the BEST reference book that I have ever seen for XML. The hard work put in by the author is easily seen and the price is nothing to think twice about. It has many examples on how it is used in multiple languages and has alot of usable code, and as if all this wasn't enough, the author explains in much detail VML, WML, XHTML, and many more exciting languages.This book is definitly not for the unexperienced programmer, but any one with a pretty good programming background should definitly get this book if they are planning on programming in XML
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Summary: very clear and comprehensive
Review: This is the best book on XML that I have bought. The explaination and writing style is wonderful, and is great for beginners to advanced programmers. It is difficult to describe complex things in clear words, and I must say this one does it very well. I highly reccomend it.
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Summary: Very good overview of XML technologies...
Review: This is the second edition of Holzner's book, which was originally titled Inside XML. I purchased Inside XML back in 2001 when I first started exploring XML, and it was a good choice back then. Looking at the new version of the book, my opinion hasn't changed. It's still a good choice. Holzner assumes little programming knowledge in his writing. The JavaScript and Java chapters dealing with XML each start with a very high-level tutorial on the language. It's enough to allow you to understand how XML processing can fit in that environment. Throughout the entire book, there is an abundance of examples that you can study and use to get you up and running quickly. To me, the value of this book is how it gives you a great overview of all the pieces of XML as well as example code to make it all come together. Perhaps the only "drawback" to this book is how much it tries to cover. Looking at the table of contents, you see that XML is actually a number of technologies that are used in conjunction with each other. You could easily buy individual books that are more comprehensive in coverage for any one of these related technologies, like SOAP, XSL, or Cascading Style Sheets. Conversely, you would get so bogged down in the minute details that you'd miss the bigger picture of how they all fit together. This book gives you more than enough information to get started, as well as helping you to understand what it is you still don't know. For Notes/Domino developers, this is a perfect title to use to get started on XML technology. You will likely find yourself at some point having to either read or produce an XML file for exchange with another business entity. This book will help you to understand what you need to know to get it done. You could use the Java examples in order to code Domino agents to process XML, and those same examples could also help you to understand some of the LotusScript XML classes that are now provided in Notes/Domino. The SOAP chapters will also be valuable should you have to learn to use and/or create web services for your application. Conclusion
If you are a beginning or intermediate developer who needs to learn the basics of XML in a hurry, this is a very good choice. If you need in-depth knowledge of any particular part of XML, you could supplement this choice with a specific book on that subject. Recommended.
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Summary: Very good overview of XML technologies...
Review: This is the second edition of Holzner's book, which was originally titled Inside XML. I purchased Inside XML back in 2001 when I first started exploring XML, and it was a good choice back then. Looking at the new version of the book, my opinion hasn't changed. It's still a good choice. Holzner assumes little programming knowledge in his writing. The JavaScript and Java chapters dealing with XML each start with a very high-level tutorial on the language. It's enough to allow you to understand how XML processing can fit in that environment. Throughout the entire book, there is an abundance of examples that you can study and use to get you up and running quickly. To me, the value of this book is how it gives you a great overview of all the pieces of XML as well as example code to make it all come together. Perhaps the only "drawback" to this book is how much it tries to cover. Looking at the table of contents, you see that XML is actually a number of technologies that are used in conjunction with each other. You could easily buy individual books that are more comprehensive in coverage for any one of these related technologies, like SOAP, XSL, or Cascading Style Sheets. Conversely, you would get so bogged down in the minute details that you'd miss the bigger picture of how they all fit together. This book gives you more than enough information to get started, as well as helping you to understand what it is you still don't know. For Notes/Domino developers, this is a perfect title to use to get started on XML technology. You will likely find yourself at some point having to either read or produce an XML file for exchange with another business entity. This book will help you to understand what you need to know to get it done. You could use the Java examples in order to code Domino agents to process XML, and those same examples could also help you to understand some of the LotusScript XML classes that are now provided in Notes/Domino. The SOAP chapters will also be valuable should you have to learn to use and/or create web services for your application. Conclusion
If you are a beginning or intermediate developer who needs to learn the basics of XML in a hurry, this is a very good choice. If you need in-depth knowledge of any particular part of XML, you could supplement this choice with a specific book on that subject. Recommended.
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Summary: Excellent Reference, good for beginners too
Review: This is the second xml book I read. This books helps me get answers to many questions I got after reading Beginning XML from wrox. This book offers comprehensive coverage of XML technologies and the language is very easy to understand. I use it as a desktop reference. Yet I believe it will be good for users of all levels. If you want one XML book and only one, get Inside XML!
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Summary: A good reference book on XML and its uses.
Review: Title:Real World XML
Edition: 1st edition?
Author: Dr. Steven Holzner
City: Indianapolis, IN
Publisher: Peachpit press
Published Date: 2003
Reviewer Name: Ravi Mahalingam
E-mail address: mravichandran@hotmail.com
Review Date: 25 July 2004.
Overall value of the book:
4=Very useful and well written. I will refer to this book again.
Instructional value of the book:
5=Excellent! An essential book on this topic.
Please rate the reference value of this book from 1-5 where
4=This book has earned a valued place on my reference shelf.
The author is an exponent in this field and has written a number of articles adn XML. Due to the mastery over XML, the author has taken the time to explain all the concepts, history and ways to create XML document. the author has written the book at various levels. from basic to advanced depending on the need of the reader. this book can be used by the students of XML who want to start from scratch.
the author begins the book (chapter 1) by touching the salient features of the XML, its features, editor, and different implementations of XML in fields such as chemical markup language to name a few. the author has also explained about creating well formed documents, validating them against DTDs and XML schemas.
the author had provided history about XML schemas asn provided ways to create scheams. Javascript has been used for manipulating XML documents and examples to explain the difficult concepts. the book also describes how to use XML with data from a traditional RDBMS with simple examples.
this book is an excellent book and I will be buying my cousin this book - he was looking for a good book on XML. I think it is a great honor to evaluate a book by this author.
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Summary: Inside SIMPLE but EFFECTIVE XML
Review: Well I thought of writing a review for this book because it sure is very useful for anyone who is new to the XML world. It has helped me a lot to get a grip of the concepts. It has plethora of examples based on Java and XML , covers a lot of XSL and DTD. I would suggest this book for anyone who is really starting with Java and XML. However, I found a drawback in this book. It shows you the various techniques of manipulating data but did not show even a single example or application. Also the code is very simple probably just for the Java starters. But for advanced Java programmers it is just a good reference material.
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