Essential XML for Web Professionals

by Dan Livingston

*Learn XML fundamentals and build Web applications-fast *Focused on the XML skills Web professionals need most*Learn by doing, as you work on a fictional e-commerce site*Up-to-the-minute coverage... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130662542
• ISBN13: 9780130662545
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very good book

This book is a really good basic book to get started. I've enjoyed it.

Best I have read so far...

Just skip all the others and buy this one. Really.

Most useful XML reference/tutorial I've seen

There are certainly heavier XML books out there, but this one has dropped a lot useless filler than many of those books. I only work with XML once in a while, so I really don't need to remember exactly how, say, XPath works very often. This book contains many get-up-to-speed-quickly chapters that focus on teaching the most useful and most often used aspects of XML, as well as what clients seem to expect me to know about. For example, I was recently quizzed about SMIL and SVG by a client who I'm sure knew nothing about them, but since I had just finished this book, I was able to answer intelligently, and I believe it was a factor in my getting the job.This book covers basic XML, XHTML, XSLT, XML Schema, DTDs, XPath, XLink, XPointer, SMIL, SVG and WDDX. It's wonderfully written and very useful. Two thumbs up!

The only book you need to get started in XML

In order to keep my precarious web development job, I decided to learn XML - everyone's been talking about it for a while. As I usually do when I need to learn a new subject, I buy about a half dozen books on the subject. This book was one of those half-dozen. Suffice it to say that I returned the other five. Seriously, it's that good. It assumes nothing about your prior knowledge, and takes you step-by-step from simple XML into DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, XHTML, and more. The content is solid and the writing style is friendly, conversational, and intelligent.

Best XML book out there

This is my fifth XML book and it is absolutely, most definitely, the best one. XML itself is pretty simple, but all of the ways it can be defined and applied can be confusing. This book makes things like DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, XPointer, XLink and more very easy to understand. The author starts with simple, but not idiotic, examples, and builds on them throughout the book. The author is clearly both a teacher and a programmer. His goal is not to create a book of filler (like lots of others out there), but its clear he sincerely wants you to learn all about XML.I was truly impressed by both the content and the intelligence of the presentation of this book. Even if you have a bunch of XML books already, reading this one will fill in gaps in your knowledge that you didn't even know you had.