XML: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Kevin Howard Goldberg, Elizabeth Castro (Foreword by)

A guide the the basics of the XML language covers such topics as XPath, creating a DTD, XML schema, complext types, namespaces, XQuery, and Ajax.

Genres: Computer Science, Programming, Nonfiction, Reference, Technical, Technology, Academic

269 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 2008

Reviews

[Tori]

Kind of frustrating, but so is XML.

[Wendelle]

step-by-step instructions for absolute beginners are really helpful! Much appreciated!

[John]

A very gentle introduction to XML. A professor I knew suggested it to students who were struggling with the basic concepts for XML and after reading the book I see why. It breaks things down into simple step (like all quickstart guides) and let's the reader feel a sense of accomplishment in dealing with creating XML documents, schema, XSL and even some XQuery. There's even a brief look at the .epub format (now slightly out of date due to changes in the format)! I will suggest this for students as an introductory text, but the book isn't the text for those who want to build and create sophisticated XML.

[Steve Whiting]

Has good coverage of the subject - XML, XSLT & Xpath and Xquery. Unfortunately , the whole approach ("type this, then type this, then type this...") starts out irritating and ends up infuriating - it's like being read a book one syllable at a time.

It's usable as a reference book, but the style is not very conducise to recollecting the information which is supposed to be being conveyed - I can't help but feel the approach has been selected to fit into the half-page columns, whereas a 'shorter & wider' approach, where the whole syntax is shown at once - either in text or syntax diagrams, might have been better.

[Trent Bac]

Very well informative and easy.

Appropriate in detail. You can get general knowledge of Xml and related technology in basic level easily and quickly. Better than I expected from other reviews.