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Summary: A very good XML reference book
Review: "XML IE5 Programmer's reference" has lots of good examples that are explained in a nice way. However, be noted that it uses JavaScript and not VB Script. I do recommend it for people who'd like to get involved with XML IE5 client side programming or people would like to get involved in XML programming and they know nothing about it. What I didn't see in this book and I was expecting to see, were ASP examples i.e. how to use the XML DOM on the server side.
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Summary: A very good XML reference book
Review: "XML IE5 Programmer's reference" has lots of good examples that are explained in a nice way. However, be noted that it uses JavaScript and not VB Script. I do recommend it for people who'd like to get involved with XML IE5 client side programming or people would like to get involved in XML programming and they know nothing about it. What I didn't see in this book and I was expecting to see, were ASP examples i.e. how to use the XML DOM on the server side.
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Summary: Good programmer's introduction to XML
Review: Author Alex Homer (NOT Horner) tackles the difficult task of explaining XML--for which the standards are not yet nailed down, but which Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 browser supports in its own peculiar way. The book is aimed at programmers already doing Web-based programming who want to manipulate XML documents on the Web. There are two key technologies supported in IE5 and described in this book. One is the Data Source Object, which can be used to process XML documents set up like a database. It requires that each XML record have the same kind and number of elements, like records in a database. The other technology is the XML Document Object Model, an Application Program Interface that lets Web programmers manipulate XML documents of different structures (using programming script). One chapter that does not seem to require any script writing is the one covering stylesheets, CSS and XSL, with which you can display XML documents nearly anyway you want in IE5. Finally, there are several chapters of references for XML and IE5 that should be of great help to any Web programmer itching to get into XML. The hands-on examples of code are great, often accompanied by links to the publisher's Web site, where you can download updates and source-code examples.
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Summary: A very good book.
Review: Clear and concise. Good examples. Good warnings about features in the spec but not yet implemented in IE5. I'd also recommend "XML The Annotated Spec" by DuCharme.
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Summary: Concise and well-written
Review: Finished this book in two days and made me fall in love with XML. This is the only book I've read on this subject but it still seems to cover most of the concepts you'd be concered with XML development in IE5. One of the few technical books I've read that I actually kinda enjoyed reading. If you're looking for a first book and a great reference book on XML in IE5 then this is definately the way to go.
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Summary: Complete
Review: I have to say that this book IS complete about the XML for IE5 subject. Of course, this a Programmer's Reference so it's not a book to learn and it's obviously IE5 specific. If you can live with those constraint and you are looking to do get the best out of IE, take this book and you will have all required information.Bottom line, very practical and compact reference; but it will probably need some adjustments when Microsoft will release future XML capabilities to be conform to the W3C recommendations.
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Summary: Complete
Review: I have to say that this book IS complete about the XML for IE5 subject. Of course, this a Programmer's Reference so it's not a book to learn and it's obviously IE5 specific. If you can live with those constraint and you are looking to do get the best out of IE, take this book and you will have all required information. Bottom line, very practical and compact reference; but it will probably need some adjustments when Microsoft will release future XML capabilities to be conform to the W3C recommendations.
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Summary: So, what can I do with XML?
Review: I'm not really sure how I first got involved in writing this book. Yes, I'd been following the emergence and progress of XML for a year or so, but it was hard to see any 'real-world' uses for it at that time. However, I think that once I realized how easily it could be used to shift data around, I was hooked. From there, it was a natural progression to XSL and the rest - and now I can't seem to tackle any project without finding a reason to include some XML/XSL in it.
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Summary: Verbose! Tests your patience then gets better.
Review: Problem #1: The publishers say "It gets straight to the point,..." -- I DISAGREE. Typical Wrox problem. Problem #2: In the first few chapters, sample code is either absent or in fragments that dont run as a whole program. Thus, you go thru' 110 pages and still feel like you are getting nowhere. Problem #3: Author keeps on jumping ahead of himself in the first 3 chapters. He talks early about advanced topics ("comes to the point" indeed!) giving sketchy, partial details that dont educate an old-hat but confuse the newbie. Now the good news: If you bear through the first 3 chapters, you will get a lot. Like most books, you will gloss over lots of stuff and learn to learn from learners.
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Summary: WARNING: NOT VBSCRIPT
Review: The book has a lot of information about XML and IE5. However, it is all in javascript and not in VBScript, which is not what I expected from a book on IE5. The two scripting languages are similar, yet sufficiently different to make the source code un-usable. I'm disappointed that a IE5 book written in a NetScape language has no warning to that effect.
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