- Paperback: 720 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (25 July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0471422541
- ISBN-13: 978-0471422549
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 18.7 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- XML is now ubiquitous, not just in Web development, but as the underpinning of interactive Web services: applications that really do run on any platform
- Includes twenty–four one–hour lessons that recreate a typical week–long introductory seminar
- Provides readers with a sound, fundamental understanding of XML and how it changes application development
- Explains how to use XML when dealing with transforms, schemas, and other Web services requirements
- The authors teach courses for IBM Canada
- Companion Web site features an online presentation by the authors that follows along with each chapter and includes an audio–only option for readers with dial–up Internet connection
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Get up and running with XML using this innovative virtual classroom approach!
Interested in mastering XML? This revolutionary book and companion online presentation take you through 16 one–hour lessons that quickly get you up to speed on many of XML’s capabilities. With this unique approach and real–world perspective, you’ll be able to build your own Web site and custom XML documents in no time!
- Gain a better understanding of the fundamental XML concepts and information you need to know
- Explore several related XML standards and languages
- Create XML–related hyperlinks using XLink, XPath™, or XPointer
- Transform XML documents using the Extensible Style–sheet Language family
- Add multimedia to your Web site using SMIL
- Use XML with DTDs, schemas, style sheets, and data binding
- Exchange messages and access Web services with the SOAP protocol
Join the authors on the companion Web site in a training session. Follow along as they walk you through the online presentation for each chapter provided in streaming video or audio only. Source code is also available for download.
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Format:Paperback
This book promises to give the beginner a good grounding in XML by following each of its lessons for 60 minutes a day, over 16 days. As always, with this kind of title (learn in 24 hours, 21 days or 7 days), the attraction is the prospect of doing a few lessons and becoming proficient in a minimal time. It's important to remember that you'll still have to do the work, whatever the time schedule and breakdown of lessons. There isn't any way of magically learning without doing any work.
The book is aimed at complete newcomers to XML with no previous knowledge at all. If you've had any previous experience then some of the information in the first few chapters will be redundant. Strangely, straight after the basics the next subjects to be covered are DTDs and XML Schema. I think these are a bit daunting for the beginner and even though a lot of effort has been put in to providing a gentle introduction I felt that these might have been better as later, rather than earlier lessons to avoid the risk of putting people off completely.
XHTML, CSS and XSLT are are all covered and these sections would, generally, be most useful to anyone learning XML for the purposes of developing or maintaining websites. It is assumed that the reader already knows HTML, with the XHTML chapter just giving a description of the differences between HTML and XHTML and a guide on its use, rather than a guide to writing web pages with XHTML. The CSS and XSLT chapters both outline the basics, but anyone wanting to use them for serious work will need further material and would probably be better off with a different, specialised book.
The book does not cover using XML in conjunction with a programming language such as Perl or Java and concentrates on website development rather than application development.
It's a reasonable introduction for the complete beginner, but less useful to anyone who requires more than the basics. The content would need to be supplemented by other books for anyone using XML regularly for software development.
The book is aimed at complete newcomers to XML with no previous knowledge at all. If you've had any previous experience then some of the information in the first few chapters will be redundant. Strangely, straight after the basics the next subjects to be covered are DTDs and XML Schema. I think these are a bit daunting for the beginner and even though a lot of effort has been put in to providing a gentle introduction I felt that these might have been better as later, rather than earlier lessons to avoid the risk of putting people off completely.
XHTML, CSS and XSLT are are all covered and these sections would, generally, be most useful to anyone learning XML for the purposes of developing or maintaining websites. It is assumed that the reader already knows HTML, with the XHTML chapter just giving a description of the differences between HTML and XHTML and a guide on its use, rather than a guide to writing web pages with XHTML. The CSS and XSLT chapters both outline the basics, but anyone wanting to use them for serious work will need further material and would probably be better off with a different, specialised book.
The book does not cover using XML in conjunction with a programming language such as Perl or Java and concentrates on website development rather than application development.
It's a reasonable introduction for the complete beginner, but less useful to anyone who requires more than the basics. The content would need to be supplemented by other books for anyone using XML regularly for software development.
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This would be a good tutorial for those that are already familiar with the basics of XML. The book is packed full of examples and references. Unfortunately, it is mostly CIPU (clear if previously understood).
I have twice gotten as far as chapter 7 (CSS topics) but gave up going any further both times. The reason being, I STILL did not know what XML was good for! XML is certainly a mature and useful technology (to somebody?). But you will not come to that conclusion by reading this book.
This is my 5th primer on XML and I have yet to find one that clearly demonstrates what XML is good for. They all seem to say to have faith, and that by the end of the book your faith will be rewarded with understanding. Sorry, I prefer clear explanations over faith. I do not want to faithfully wade thru 15 chapters of DTDs, schemas, transformations, XSALT and SOAP topics, only to find out I still have no idea of what this technology is good for or who is even using it. Meantime, I will keep searching for that magical tutorial that can explain it all, before drearily wading again into the above topics.
I have twice gotten as far as chapter 7 (CSS topics) but gave up going any further both times. The reason being, I STILL did not know what XML was good for! XML is certainly a mature and useful technology (to somebody?). But you will not come to that conclusion by reading this book.
This is my 5th primer on XML and I have yet to find one that clearly demonstrates what XML is good for. They all seem to say to have faith, and that by the end of the book your faith will be rewarded with understanding. Sorry, I prefer clear explanations over faith. I do not want to faithfully wade thru 15 chapters of DTDs, schemas, transformations, XSALT and SOAP topics, only to find out I still have no idea of what this technology is good for or who is even using it. Meantime, I will keep searching for that magical tutorial that can explain it all, before drearily wading again into the above topics.
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