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XML @ Web Programming
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XML Index - XML Book :
Python & XML
by Christopher A. Jones, Fred L., Jr. Drake Paperback - 450 pages 1st edition (December 15, 2001) O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 0596001282 Dimensions (in inches): 0.98 x 9.28 x 6.92 If you are a Python programmer who wants to incorporate XML into your skill set, this is the book for you. Python has attracted a wide variety of developers, who use it either as glue to connect critical programming tasks together, or as a complete cross-platform application development language. Yet, because it is object-oriented and has powerful text manipulation abilities, Python is an ideal language for manipulating XML. Python & XML gives you a solid foundation for using these two languages together. Loaded with practical examples, this new volume highlights common application tasks, so that you can learn by doing. The book starts with the basics then quickly progresses to complex topics, like transforming XML with XSLT, querying XML with XPath, and working with XML dialects and validation. It also explores the more advanced issues: using Python with SOAP and distributed web services, and using Python to create scalable streams between distributed applications (like databases and web servers). The book provides effective practical applications, while referencing many of the tools involved in XML processing and Python, and highlights cross-platform issues along with tasks relevant to enterprise computing. You will find ample coverage of XML flow analysis and details on ways in which you can transport XML through your network. Whether you are using Python as an application language, or as an administrative or middleware scripting language, you are sure to benefit from this book. If you want to use Python to manipulate XML, this is your guide. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Sunit Joshi from Madison, AL United States This book really dvelves into the using XML with Python. The chapter are well laid out and easy to read. There are some typos but nothing that you can't fix. There are some problems using the current XSLT processer that ships with PyXml0.7 but you can still apply the concepts (I used MSXML's XSLT). The best chapter (last one (:-|) ties all the concepts explained into a Web Service like app. that really shows the real strength of XML. Reviewer: A reader from Ithaca, NY I really liked this book because I was able to quickly start using XML with Python. I tried to use the package docs, but they were often hard to read, and didn't fill me in on the background stuff I needed to know. The examples in this book were easy to understand, and easy to see how to make practical applications from them. I didn't encounter any typos like the other reader did. Reviewer: Mario Diana from Troy, NY USA I'm not very far along in the book, but I don't like what I'm seeing. The preface purports that the book's audience need not "know anything about XML." There is very little in the way of explaining XML, however. The chapter on "Fundamentals" is O'Reilly at its most terse. If you already understand XML very well, you might think this chapter an excellent itemizing of the specification. Sadly, most people, I imagine, would be able to retain little from this. Regarding the code examples, the explanations hardly illuminate the API. The code stands as is; and the commentary does only a somewhat decent job of explaining the larger context. You could always check the documentation given in the back of the book, but that's hardly as helpful as a good overview and commentary. Moreover, and in some ways worse, I have found many typos -- and I am only as far as the first two examples. These mistakes include missing import statements, errant capitalization, bad indentation, double underscores ('__') written as one long underscore. This is unacceptable. I can only hope it is just this one chapter. I bought this book because of the topics, and because I figured Python would be the easiest way to learn XML API's. I am only hoping that the book will get better, and that I will be able to derive benefit from it. As it stands, I'm skeptical that I will get my money's worth. |
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