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Summary: No practical use
Review: A great book for those who want to know in very general terms what XML is all about, but who don't actually want to do anything with it.
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Summary: Is this a text on learning XML?
Review: Chapter 1 -3 are interesting. However, few examples are provided, and the content is real weak on syntax. I feel gipped, but hey, you will get plenty of screen clips containing the IE browser! The CD lacks useful examples as well and is poorly documented as to its use or content. If you are looking for a book on using XML outside the web, you will not find it here.
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Summary: OUTDATED AND LIMITED
Review: Decent book, but it's already outdated and the code samples are limited. The background information is still informative, but there isn't enough coverage of the API. The DOM API documentation is out-of-date and few useful examples are given. There is no coverage of the SAX API (which is supposed to be easier to use) whatsoever. None of the examples work with a webserver and only work if you open the file locally! I found myself using the MSDN Online website instead of referring to the book.
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Summary: It's good book, but... yes it's only overview
Review: If you are interesting in XML and you need to confirm your concept on XML in short time, this book is good solution. Other , like XML Bible , XML Application has too much contents and nothing compared with this book. After read this book, you had better reference XML section in MSDN for real programming and more.
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Summary: Quick intro to XML with lots of examples.
Review: Pardi does a good job describing XML. The book starts at "what is a markup language", goes into the specifics of the XML syntax. Document Type Definitions, Style Sheets, and XSL are all covered in enough detail for technically savvy readers. Many of the examples work only in Internet Explorer, and don't work at all in Netscape, so if this is important, be warned. Otherwise, Pardi's writing style is easy to read and the book is well organized. I would give it 5 stars if it wasn't so IE centric.
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Summary: Quick intro to XML with lots of examples.
Review: Pardi does a good job describing XML. The book starts at "what is a markup language", goes into the specifics of the XML syntax. Document Type Definitions, Style Sheets, and XSL are all covered in enough detail for technically savvy readers. Many of the examples work only in Internet Explorer, and don't work at all in Netscape, so if this is important, be warned. Otherwise, Pardi's writing style is easy to read and the book is well organized. I would give it 5 stars if it wasn't so IE centric.
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Summary: Very poorly written, uses cryptic and difficult explanations
Review: The author seems to have trouble expresses how to structure and write XML in this book. As a veteran techie, I was able to understand most concepts....after I had read the chapter 2 or 3 times over. XML could be expresses much easier...and this book really only touches some of the amazing abilities of this truly powerful language.
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Summary: IE DOM Explained
Review: There are many books on the market that explain XML and what it is and does. This book explains the Microsoft IE DOM, and how to use it in the client. Since Netscape does not support XML, don't look for many examples of how to use it with Netscape. If I had to rely on this book to introduce me to XML, it would fail miserably. However, when I saw the possibilities of using XML to communicate between the client and server in the background, a whole new world opened up for our product. It is now interactive without a screen refresh. We do field level validations in real time. We have dynamic content in dropdown list boxes. This knowledge alone is worth many, many times the price of the book.
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Summary: Good primer to XML
Review: This book covers XML very well. Gives an informative overview of all the important elements of XML and how this technology can be beneficial to today's business. After browsing this book at Chapters for 30 minutes I felt this was the best primer to XML over many much larger tomes. A good read.
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Summary: Confusing and poorly organized.
Review: This book is a classic example of how [at least some] techies can't express themselves very well to non-techies. The examples don't work the way the author says they should (I've confirmed one example of this with Microsoft Press, whose rep couldn't figure it out, either), and worse, the author slides sideways into very technical discussions about concepts that haven't yet been defined. The accompanying CD comes with so little explanation that it only makes an already confusing situation worse. If you're trying to learn XML on your own, there has got to be a better choice than this.
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