Rating: 
Summary: Best book I've found, but there's room for improvement.
Review: The new XML features in IE5 are exciting, and we're starting to use XML to publish complicated db data on the web. This book got me up and running, so I've gotten a lot of use out of it. But my feeling is that no one has really figured out how to explain XML very well, and this book, like all of the other XML books I've read, seemed a little muddled and difficult to read. The first four chapters of the book are devoted to XML theory and descriptions of the various technologies MS uses, and I found them a little confusing, despite the fact that I was already running some of the XML-Apache code. For me, though, the bottom line is that the technology is so useful and exciting that it's worth expending a little extra effort to pick it up. If someone knows of a better book, email me and let me know. But for now, as far as I know this is an imperfect book that's the best way to learn an important new technology. For that reason, I recommend it.
Rating:
Summary: Best book I've found, but there's room for improvement.
Review: The new XML features in IE5 are exciting, and we're starting to use XML to publish complicated db data on the web. This book got me up and running, so I've gotten a lot of use out of it. But my feeling is that no one has really figured out how to explain XML very well, and this book, like all of the other XML books I've read, seemed a little muddled and difficult to read. The first four chapters of the book are devoted to XML theory and descriptions of the various technologies MS uses, and I found them a little confusing, despite the fact that I was already running some of the XML-Apache code. For me, though, the bottom line is that the technology is so useful and exciting that it's worth expending a little extra effort to pick it up. If someone knows of a better book, email me and let me know. But for now, as far as I know this is an imperfect book that's the best way to learn an important new technology. For that reason, I recommend it.
Rating: 
Summary: An excellent, complete reference to XML programming
Review: This book is packed with information about all the programming aspects of XML. XSL/T and DOM get thorough coverage. Code examples are concise, illustrating a point without tedious detail. Many more complete examples are available at the publisher's site. The appendices provide complete specifications of the API's.This book also highlights IE5's XML implementation differences and extensions from the current W3C recommendations. The author also includes a discussion of many new features in the recommendations, so that one can anticipate future browser functionality.
Rating: 
Summary: Appetitizing XML/IE5 cookbook, and an essential reference
Review: This is another example of the quality (most) Wrox publishings have. The book includes some very good and essential reference to the most useful XML technologies including core XML, XSL(XSLT), Schemas&DTD's, the MS-XML Document Object Model (DOM), ActiveX Data Objects and lots of other stuff. It also includes a collection of very extensive reference appendices to all the techniques described above. It makes a perfect starting point for XML beginners because:
 1) IE5 and the MS-XML parser are included in most modern PCs and their setup as easy as a few clicks with your mouse (unlike XML-Apache and Enhydra!).
 2) IE5 is a visual environment which easily creates results that can be instantly viewed. Something I did not personally like much is that it uses JavaScript(JScript) in most of its examples except for a few ones dealing with Active Server Pages. I 'd also wish it had a few examples on COM scripting with the MS-XML parser (yes, it's a COM server, but the book says nothing about it!). It's so important that if you use Distributed COM (DCOM) with the parser you can create client/server XML 'databases' on virtually every Win32 machine!
Rating:
Summary: Beginers book
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