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XML Index - XML Book :
Essential XML for Web Professionals
by Dan Livingston Paperback - 500 pages 1st edition (January 15, 2002) Prentice Hall ISBN: 0130662542 Dimensions (in inches): 1.08 x 9.02 x 6.06 XML skills needed for building dynamic, portable, and scalable applications are explained in this book for Web developers, Web page authors, and software developers whose applications run over the Web. Hands-on projects demonstrate tasks related to key XML technologies including schemas, namespaces, XSLT, XLink, and XHTML. Knowledge of HTML is useful but not necessary. Livingston is a Web designer. He has authored several books for Web professionals.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR Book Info: The fastest way for busy professionals to master the XML skills needed for building dynamic, portable, and scalable applications. By completing hands-on projects covering a wide range of development tasks, you'll master key XML technologies. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Antonio MacCabe from Kingston, WA USA I'm an ASP developer with just over a year's experience. This is the first book I've read on XML, and if I have a question, it will be the first place I look. This book has it all, except solid examples that tie it all together. I now understand how vast and capable XML is, but I haven't gained an ability to put it to any real practical use. Items I don't agree with: 1. The book is not 500 pages ...Page 223 marks the start of Appendix A, the XML 1.0 specification. The index ends on page 345. 122 pages of reference (over 33%). 2. The book's cover states I will learn to build web applications fast. Huh? There are no sample applications, only examples of how to use the syntax being discussed. 3. The cover states that I will learn by doing, as I work on a fictional e-commerce site. Huh? There are no exercises, and there is no e-commerce site being built. 4. The cover refers to real-scenarios. Again, where are they? 5. A chapter titled, "Common Examples of XML", was really an introduction to SMIL, SVG, and WDDX. Good stuff, but not what I was expecting. This book needs a companion to deliver all that's been promised. I still don't have a clear picture of the XML DOM, the difference between a node and an element, nor do I have an idea of where I should be using XML (instead of (or with) the technologies I'm already familiar with (i.e. ASP, ADO, and JavaScript)). Considering how the other reviews have labeled this book #1, is there any hope? Can anyone recommend a book that's better at painting the big picture? Reviewer: vampiretap from Middleton, Wisconsin United States Just skip all the others and buy this one. Really. Reviewer: Reggie R from NYC, NY USA There are certainly heavier XML books out there, but this one has dropped a lot useless filler than many of those books. I only work with XML once in a while, so I really don't need to remember exactly how, say, XPath works very often. This book contains many get-up-to-speed-quickly chapters that focus on teaching the most useful and most often used aspects of XML, as well as what clients seem to expect me to know about. For example, I was recently quizzed about SMIL and SVG by a client who I'm sure knew nothing about them, but since I had just finished this book, I was able to answer intelligently, and I believe it was a factor in my getting the job. This book covers basic XML, XHTML, XSLT, XML Schema, DTDs, XPath, XLink, XPointer, SMIL, SVG and WDDX. It's wonderfully written and very useful. Two thumbs up! Reviewer: danielbrit from Boston, MA USA In order to keep my precarious web development job, I decided to learn XML - everyone's been talking about it for a while. As I usually do when I need to learn a new subject, I buy about a half dozen books on the subject. This book was one of those half-dozen. Suffice it to say that I returned the other five. Seriously, it's that good. It assumes nothing about your prior knowledge, and takes you step-by-step from simple XML into DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, XHTML, and more. The content is solid and the writing style is friendly, conversational, and intelligent. |
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