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Summary: Teach the way you write ERH
Review: This is a good introductory book on XML and taught me quite a lot. However, I would like to make a comment about ERH like all the others who have responded to this title. I've taken a Java course in which ERH is the instructor - I only wish he can teach as well as he writes. He is an example of why a good developer and writer doesn't make a good teacher. So in case you are reading this - no offense Elliote, just some helpful criticizm.
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Summary: Good intro to XML -- XSL info is obsolete
Review: This is a very good introduction to XML. However, I bought the book because it was the only one I could find that covered XSL. Unfortunately, XSL seems to have changed completely since this book was published. After reading the book I looked at the spec and found a completely different syntax. IE5.0 supports the spec and not what is documented in this book.
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Summary: A very good startup book.
Review: This is a very good tutorial for XML and good startup book. This book handled the DTD part in detail. This book came to handy, when I was studying XML usage in our projects then.
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Summary: Best Book on XML yet to find.
Review: Very good structured introduction to XML. Many other books are just refurbished SGML books, with too much stuff about SGML in it. The only drawback are some annoying redundancies and some typos in the 'code'.
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Summary: Build powerful web sites with XML!
Review: XML is the most exciting development on the Internet since Java It makes web site development easier, more productive, and more fun. This book is your introduction to the exciting and fast growing world of XML. In it you'll learn how to write documents in XML and how to use XSL style sheets to convert those documents into HTML so legacy browsers can read them. You`ll also learn how to use DTDs to describe and validate documents. This will become increasingly important as more and more browsers like Netscape and Internet Explorer 5.0 provide native support for XML.This book is the first one to look at XML not from the perspective of a software developer but rather that of a web page author. It doesn`t spend a lot of pages talking about BNF grammars or parsing element trees. Instead it shows you how you can use XML and existing tools today to more efficiently and productively produce powerful web sites. Fortunately XML has a decidedly unsteep learning curve, much like ! HTML (and unlike SGML). As you learn a little you can do a little. As you learn a little more, you can do a little more. This book is aimed squarely at web site developers. I assume that you want to use XML to produce web sites that are difficult to impossible to create with raw HTML. You'll be amazed to discover that in conjunction with XSL style sheets and a few free tools, XML lets you do things that previously required either custom software costing hundreds to thousands of dollars per developer or extensive knowledge of programming languages like Perl. None of the software in this book will cost you more than a few minutes of download time. None of the tricks require any programming beyond the most basic cut and paste JavaScript. XML is the wave of the future. Writing XML: Extensible Markup Language not only taught me about XML itself. It changed the way I looked at the Web. XML is a sea change in web sites and web site development. And I can think of no better way to! learn about it than reading XML: Extensible Markup Languag! e.
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Summary: html is dead, long live html
Review: You mean like how DOS was supposed to be replaced by better operating systems by 1982? Really -- we're going to be stuck with plain 'ol HTML for decades.
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