- Paperback: 350 pages
- Publisher: Academic Press Inc; Pap/Cdr edition (Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0123555922
- ISBN-13: 978-0123555922
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.9 x 3.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,412,736 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Are you looking for a serious, intensely technical book on XML? XML for Real Programmers provides detailed instruction in the all techniques you need to master to build XML applications for any Web enterprise. Inside, the author begins with incisive introductions to the entire family of XML technologies. Then, building on this foundation, he guides you step by step through the development of three sample applications that together form a complete, cohesive e-commerce site: A reusable XML framework, adaptable to a wide variety of "document factory" Web applications and complemented by key business objects: an Account class, a Catalog class, and a ShoppingBasket class. A Java-based servlet responsible for all aspects of XSL transformation, including external stylesheets, conditional processing, flow-control, dynamically created attribute nodes for parent elements, and template invocation. An order processing application designed to accept and process data structured by a wide range of DTDs. Features: * Offers in-depth coverage of the essential members of the XML family-DOM, XSL, Xlink and Xpointer-including specification-level analysis and explanation. * Teaches by example, developing in detail three XML applications and showing how they function together as a single, integrated e-commerce site. * Focuses heavily on Java and how it is especially well suited to building and deploying XML applications. * Concludes with a chapter focusing on the future of XML, other emerging specifications, and the needs of Web-based enterprise. * On the CD, provides all the book's sample code, plus IBM Visual Age, IBM XML parser, and Java Tutorial by MindQ.
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UnReal Programmer disappointed
8 July 2000
Format:Paperback
What dissapointed me was the title compared to the contents. I was expecting lots of good code, explanations, and tips from someone who had found a lot of the gothcas that come about from writing code with these new XML parsers and stylesheets. There is almost no code until page 178, and even this code uses IBM's xml4j and the TX methods, which are very outdated. SAX is barely mentioned until chapter 8, pg 424 of a 449 pg book. The Author spends a lot of time on this "XML website" development, but I don't feel the pages were well spent. Not much code and not a real production level design IMHO. The "Java and XML" O'Reilly book is more of a programmers book. For XSLT, I like "XSLT Programmer's Reference" from Wrox.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
envelope pusher
14 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
This book on XML is a refreshing break from usual books on the topic, like "An XML Primer." It illuminates the creative possibilities that XML is uniquely qualified to afford, and its main thrust is to show the many innovative possibilities of XML that allow the XML programmer to interface his design structure with other languages and utilities, like Java and Perl. Anyone venturing into the XML world should make this their second book purchase, right after the one that introduces him/her to the basics of XML. This envelope-pushing book will have you doing the same in the very near future.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
XML Unexplained
13 Nov 2003
Format:Paperback
*** Disclaimer: I couldn't finish this book, so my review only covers the first half. For all I know, the 2'nd half is a masterpiece, though I doubt it. ****
This book is terrible. In 20 years of reading computer books (including several years reviewing prospective book manuscripts), I've never come across a book anywhere close to being as badly structured and written (and, just as unforgivable, as badly edited) as this mess. The author clearly is handicapped by not being a native English speaker as the writing is dense and sometimes takes quite a bit of effort to decipher.
OK, I can work around the language difficulty, but in addition, the book's remarkably content-free. For one, the examples -- which don't come till after a few extrordinarly tedious rehash chapters on XML structure -- are trivial.
The ultimate insult: the book assumes that the reader *is already intimately familiar with XML*. "XML for Real Programmers"? To me, the title sounded like the book would be a good intro. to XML for an experienced programmer; it's not.
Avoid this book. If you need to learn XML, start with the W3c.org standards documents.
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