Sams Teach Yourself XML in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself) | 
|  | | | Title: | Sams Teach Yourself XML in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself) | | Author: | Andrew H. Watt | | Publisher: | Sams | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 November, 2002 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0672324717 / 9780672324710 | | List Price: | $16.99 | | You Save: | $3.74 | | Amazon Price: | $13.25 | |
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XML is the de-facto standard for manipulating and sharing data among applications. It is supported by every major programming tool and language, including Java, Microsoft .NET, Oracle, SQL Server, etc. All professional developers and administrators - even those who don't intend to build XML applications - need a basic understanding of it just to read and maintain data they receive and process. Many of them don't have the time for a thick reference book or detailed tutorial. Sams Teach Yourself XML in 10 Minutes quickly covers the basics of XML and its family of related concepts, including basic syntax, DTDs, XML Schema, DOM, SAX, XSL, and XPath. Each topic is illustrated with an example to ensure readers' understanding.
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Customer Reviews:
• A Vague Introduction, Easily Beaten By The Sketchiest Source On The Web 09 May, 2008
The book is written in a very boring English. The authors tries to describe everything in text, whereas a simple example would have gone a long way.
The examples are scarce inside the text. Well, at least "good examples" are... Whenever he reaches the simple concepts such as parsed entities, he gives a couple of examples, but for more complicated such as unparsed, the examples are vague and trivial.
The same goes for explaining the attributes. CDATA is explained thoroughly (as in all other resources available on the web), but ID, IDREF, NMTOKEN,... just mentioned in one line, without a single example. I had to spend a lot of time surfing the web to find some clear explanations.
You could argue that he was trying to present a brief introduction. Well, that's not exactly true. He tries to touch everything in the least clear way possible.
There are tons of better books on XML out there. Don't waste your time and money.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1JKXDZLI6A6LO
• Fall Asleep In 10 Minutes 09 September, 2003
I have tried to read this book over the course of two weeks, I can't get more than a couple pages without nearly passing out. This thing reads like stereo instructions. I can not comment on how accurate the information is, as the author is so boring, I can't retain any of it. No specific examples, all very vauge references.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2GGHDFZEW0G04
• Really Bad 11 November, 2003
I've been a software engineer for 20+ years. This is the worst technical book that I can recall. Way too many forward references - "Now I'll use a technical term that I won't explain for another two chapters".Most technical books have some forward references but this is ridiculous. To make it worse, some of the terms are never clearly explained even when you get to that section of the book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1F6CJSS20QYLM
• Learn The Basics ? 22 February, 2004
The author uses lots of phrases which are explained very quickly, and to vague to be of much use. This is a book for beginners, and you wont come very far reading this book, but you might, perhaps, learn the basics.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A14DQTPVOEVK4M
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