Product Description* Covers all the most recent XML core and related specifications including XML 1.1, J2EE 1.4, Microsoft .NET's latest iteration, as well as open source XML items from the Apache project. * Strong coverage of XML use with databases, transactions, and XML security. * Discusses both Microsoft (.NET) and Sun (Java) programming integration with XML, an approach not taken in any other book. * Presents extensive business examples, including several major applications developed throughout the book. * No previous exposure to XML is assumed.
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Rating: - A good description of XML
This book does a great job at describing XML. It does not contain any exercise (although it contains some codes) to help you get your feet wet.
This is a good reference book. If you are a beginner, you will still need another book to help you get started.
Rating: - Excellent book!
As a follow-up to the XML 1.1 Bible review, I took a look at the XML Programming Bible by Brian Benz with John Durant (Wiley). For those who want to use XML within their application development (as opposed to just web pages), this is the perfect follow-on book to have.
The chapter breakout... Part 1 - Introducing XML - XML Concepts; XML Documents; XML Data Format and Validation; XML Parsing Concepts; Parsing XML with DOM; Parsing XML with SAX; XSLT Concepts; XSL Transformations; ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book!
Brian covers the topic areas complete, with examples and walkthroughs. Anyone who will touch more than 1 or 2 implementations of XML should have this book in their library.
Rating: - Going from "heard of" to "knowing about" XML in a few mins
As a graduate student who had "heard of" XML and was given a brief (as in a half of a powerpoint slide) introduction, I found myself in need of a XML reference book for the new job I had taken. My first choice was unavailable at the local Barnes & Noble so I picked up a few book and browsed the pages that were related to what I was going to be doing (updating parser and API code). Not only was able to find what I was looking for in this book, but in the twenty second glance that I gave it I ... Read More
Rating: - I�ve found my new favorite XML resource.
Because I do a lot of XML and XSLT my shelves are littered with XML and XSLT books. Although the information I am looking for is somewhere on the shelf, I sometimes have a hard time finding it. The first part of the XML Programming Bible largely fixes this problem. It provides the core information in an easy to find manner. For example, the XML Schema (XSD) elements are alphabetically listed as a group instead of broken out on the basis of there task. It also includes the type of minutiae I occasionally ... Read More
- A good description of XML
- Excellent book!
