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Summary: Too many cooks spiol the broth
Review: After purchasing this book and reading through the first 7 or 8 chapters I became annoyed with the lack of continuity and consistency. Just look at the cover and see how many contributing authors there are. This makes the book difficult to read and very disjointed. My advice, look for one with less mugshots on the cover.
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Summary: Too bad no 1/2 stars.
Review: As a ASP/VB/JAVA/XML/COM/COM+ developer, I must say this is not the best book to buy. First off, this book's ASP examples are in JScript. How many ASP developers out there truly develop in Jscript. 1% maybe. The book is definitely not professional level and as a great fan of wrox books, I am starting to think Wrox is saling out. In the past, you could depend on them for true professional books but now all you get is useless fluff. Guys, just because a book is thick doesn't make it the best. Especially if you do this for a living. True developers do not have time to read through all the fluff. I have gone through quite a few xml books and this one is one of the worst.. only a couple chapters are worth reading.
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Summary: Not well written
Review: ASP XML is simply not well written. I shall compare it to an EXCELLENT wrox book 'Beginning JavaScript' to explain myself.Beginning JavaScript has a superb index, in 5-10 seconds, I have a reference to information I need at any time. ASP XML has virtually no index - it has been useful exactly 0 times. This means you have to read all 800+ pages to get good information. ASP XML has a decent object reference, but no cross-reference to code (you have to scan the whole book to find applications), BJS has excellent code samples in the Core object technology appendix. ASP XML has out-of-date and inaccurate information on XSL (more accuratly, it is missing info on XSLT), BJS describes differences between JavaScript versions much better. ASP XML's chapter categories are rather convoluted, BJS's categories are very straightforward and follow the proper pattern for any description of a programming environment. ASP XML is still a beginner/intermediate book, so it should have: Introduction, DOM, XPath, XSLT, XML and CSS, String Functions, Database Functions, and then the advanced topics. The book skipped details on XPath (trust me) and details on string functions, making my knowledge inadequate to understand the rest of it. Translation, the book felt incomplete. It may be that all of what I needed to understand XML really is in the book, but I can't find it because it is so disorganized. I know the authors are brilliant (Having seen some of their programs) but if I can't understand them, it doesn't matter. Donald Derrick
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Summary: Best for Programmers to implement XML in ASP
Review: Excellent! for ones who are pro to ASP and need to intergrate XML with ASP! A must buy!
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Summary: Not worthy
Review: I don't usually rate things this low, but this book is not a good one for explaining things. Even though it is bulky, I could seldom find topics useful or enjoyable to read, Wrox should really give up the idea of putting multiple faces on a book cover and let whole bunch of different guys with different personality write on the same topic. I give it 2 stars, 1 for it being able to be used as a pillow, the other for its pleasing to scare people with this book on my table
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I skimmed through much of this book at a brick store. It looks excellent for someone looking to use XML in a Microsoft-centric setting. It appears very up-to-date (talks about the MS XML parsers beyond what comes with IE5). It goes through some very realistic applications of XML. I didn't buy it because I've already "been there done that", but it did give me some good pointers to go digging in the MSDN library.
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Summary: If you know ASP and want to use XML - this is for you
Review: I thought I better add my voice to the others who have given their praises for this great work. I had actually been looking all over for a book with this exact subject and finally found it (thanks Wrox). Personally, I am so busy with work and family that I haven't had time to sit down and do a thorough reading, but every chapter I have gone through (most of them) have been great!!! I have been working with ASP for a while, but the opportunity for a project (it seems like it is just for fun) has come up where my boss wanted me to create a survey building tool with ASP and XML - this has been my lifesaver as I have worked with XML, but not too much on the development side. So I was familiar, but didn't have any in-depth knowledge. (Note: Ironically, there was even a case study for an on-line survey (similar to what I have been asked to do).) The reading is easy, but don't mistake that for this book being simplistic. It isn't! It is for "professionals" who are looking to enhance and polish their skills with other technologies. If you're a newby to web development, and want to learn ASP, check out SAMS "Teach Yourself Active Server Pages 3.0" by Scott Mitchell - he's the man from 4GuysFromRolla.com and does an excellent job. If you're new to XML - check out either Wrox's "Beginning XML" or Que's "XML By Example" You shouldn't go wrong with either of these. Again, this book has been WORTH EVERY PENNY and I believe later will yeild an even higher return from my investment in it as I develop my skills with XML and ASP even more. Buy this book - you won't regret it.
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Summary: You might like the book
Review: I would be unfair to say that the 883 pages were a total waste, but it wasn't worth it for me. The title of the Book is "ASP XML", and from this title I choose this book, because I wanted a book that would help me to use XML in ASP. That wasn't the case in some of the book examples. The book content (without the case study) is only 15 chapter that spans 366 pages covering all different aspects of XML and XML integration of ASP. The information presented is very basic and lacks basic knowledge of XML, for example XSL was covered very poorly in the book ( MSDN was more helpful to me than the book). Chapter 11 through 14 were very useful though, especially chapter 14 that covers useful XML procedure libraries. The case studies spans around 180 pages, there are 6 case studies. They were very confusing to me and none of them helped me solving any of the business requirements I was tackling. The rest of the book contains appendices that are useful to have them all in the same book, but you can get them over the Internet for free. Last word to say is that I was disappointed with this book.
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Summary: You might like the book
Review: I would be unfair to say that the 883 pages were a total waste, but it wasn't worth it for me. The title of the Book is "ASP XML", and from this title I choose this book, because I wanted a book that would help me to use XML in ASP. That wasn't the case in some of the book examples. The book content (without the case study) is only 15 chapter that spans 366 pages covering all different aspects of XML and XML integration of ASP. The information presented is very basic and lacks basic knowledge of XML, for example XSL was covered very poorly in the book ( MSDN was more helpful to me than the book). Chapter 11 through 14 were very useful though, especially chapter 14 that covers useful XML procedure libraries. The case studies spans around 180 pages, there are 6 case studies. They were very confusing to me and none of them helped me solving any of the business requirements I was tackling. The rest of the book contains appendices that are useful to have them all in the same book, but you can get them over the Internet for free. Last word to say is that I was disappointed with this book.
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Summary: Best for Programmers to implement XML in ASP
Review: I'm a big fan of the WROX publications (for ASP in particular), but this book was a disappointment. The writing was choppy - as you might expect from a book with 14 guys on the cover. The examples were cryptic and raise more questions than they answer. The author(s) seem to me to be attempting to impress us (and each other) with their knowledge of the subject rather than really trying to write a digestible explanation of ways to utilize XML in an ASP environment.
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