Professional XML Schemas

by Kevin Williams, Jon Duckett, Nik Ozu

Book Overview

XML Schemas will take over from DTDs as the primary method of defining XML data. Some of the most powerful reasons for using XML Schemas are their ability to: validate much more powerfully with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861005474
• ISBN13: 9781861005472
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 691 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Thank you, I became certified

The book helped me preparing for the IBM certificate for XML (IBM certified solution developer - XML and related technologies), thank you...

To get the job done

I had to create an XML schema out of an XML file that was already existing (I am sure that rarely happens:-)) and I could get the job done by reading half of this book. Would be a five star if not for the typos.This is a much better way of learning to write XML schemas compared to formal language at the XML schema specification site.

Documents vs Data

This book is worth the price for its discussion of modeling documents vs modeling data. Coming from the document world, I have found relational database types have a hard time understanding the "model" of a document schema. This book explains the document analysis process concisely, but clearly. If you work in a place that is trying to bring the document and database worlds closer together, this book is helpful.

Nice Book!

This is a nice XML Schemas book. It goes through the material thorougly with examples. It also brings up case-scenerios that help one think about tackling the projects we are likely to encounter (or in my case currently encountering) in our XML doings.Although there are some typos they do not glare the fine material in this book nor hinder learning.

Best XML Schema book out there!

This is the best XML Schema book I have read in recent days. I am especially grateful for the comprehensive discussion on Namespaces and tricks and trades of managing multiple schemas. There were a lot of books addressing the XML Schemas but they just give a chapter or two for this otherwise important topic in XML world. Most of the books I read in Stacys gave at the most couple of pages to discuss the Namespaces topic. However this book spent more than two chapters discussing this issue. The book also covers Design issues and best practices being discussed in XML-Dev. An earlier review of this book talked about incorrect examples. Well, as a career programmer I just take the examples as examples. There might be some syntactic errors, which are easy to resolve. I guess the publisher provides a download link for the corrected examples. I know it's a drag to get these; nevertheless it's a solution.