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XML @ Web Programming
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XML Index - XML Book :
XML Step by Step, Second Edition
by Michael J. Young Paperback - 550 pages 2nd Bk&cdr edition (November 28, 2001) Microsoft Press ISBN: 0735614652 Dimensions (in inches): 1.32 x 9.20 x 7.36 Book Description: Building on the popular first edition, this hands-on learning title demonstrates step by step how to create effective XML documents and display them on the Web. It also reviews the latest W3C standards, shows how to process XML in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft XML Parser (MSXML) 4.0, and expands coverage of namespaces, cascading style sheets (CSS), and other technologies. A companion CD-ROM includes XML examples plus extensive links to further resources. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Robert Amiscaray from Longmont, Co United States I got this book to review my Microsoft XML practices. This book does an extreme number of forward page jumping - one or 2 errors. But it also does a fairly good job of backwards page referencing. The consistency of using one subject and format is awesome as you actually build on a starting foundation. While the author seems to lead you in a good direction, he introduces things that he doesn't give detail on until a few pages later. He seems to mention a lot of things that make what he's currently talking about confusing because he'll "Introduce it later in the chapter" or X amount of pages ahead. Make sure you get another book along with this one. Overall it's not a bad book. Reviewer: Michael Steinberg from Spring, TX United States I bought this book based on the reviews of the first edition. I generally like the book for its fast paced introduction to XML. However, I find some of the examples confusing and I do not like the way the author always has you jumping around to different pages for information. Furthermore, there are some pointers to other pages that are wrong. Also, alot of information is put in "sidebars". Some of these sidebars are multiple pages so I do not understand their purpose. I find myself referring to Holzner's "Inside XML" a good amount of the time for clarification. If you want a quick and dirty intro to XML, this book is for you. If you need to learn XML, you will want Holzner's book in addition to this. Holzner gives you best practices as you read whereas this book does not. For example, this book uses the MIXED format for declaring elements within DTD's. However, Holzner does not recommend this and tells you why. |
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