Rating:  - Please think before you buy.
Unlike most Wrox books, this one is very confusing. The topics are scattered everywhere and you have to look all over the place to get an idea of what is going on. For beginners, get Microsoft or xml by example than go straight to Professional XML. Skip this one, it will only confuse you.
Rating:  - Good book yet a little confusing
This book is a good introduction book on XML subject. I started reading this book with little knowledge about XML, and after completing it I felt I learned a lot. Yet this book is a little confusing at the beginning. I finished the first 9 chapters and really got very confused. Then I revisited the topics and got many problem clarified. The support for this book is very good, I sent the support team a few e-mails and got responses very quickly.
Rating: - Great book for Beginning XML Only...
..however if you are interested in combining VB and SQL Server with XML then get the ASP XML Wrox book which gives better examples of the integration of XML with the current technologies.
Rating: - a confused book
The book is trying to incorporate lots of stuff, in the process confusing the programmers. I have lots of experience with VB and ASP and the reason I bought this book was because I thought that I can improve upon my internet skills and also because I understood that XML was a relatively easy technology to learn. But the author in this book is just introducing the programmer to various xml related technologies without explaining clearly what is for what and what is deemed as useful for average programmer.
Maybe I was confused when I bought this book!!
Rating:  - A "must have" for web designers
If you have been designing web pages for at least the last couple of years, you have probably been beaten over the head with XML articles. Everyone saying that XML is the "wave of the future". Actually, it is the "wave of the present".
If you are a web designer and you still don't use XML, you are behind the curve. This book will catch you up quickly and help you understand how XML will organize you pages and save you time. Clearly written, this book was an ease to read.
If you aren't a web designer, don't start with this subject. Learn your HTML and then come back and get this book.
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