Xml Complete (Mcgraw Hill Complete Series)

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Xml Complete (Mcgraw Hill Complete Series)

Xml Complete (Mcgraw Hill Complete Series)
By Steven Holzner

Publisher: Computing Mcgraw-Hill
Number Of Pages: 515
Publication Date: 1997-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0079137024
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780079137029
Binding: Paperback

HTML is like Latin-a language that soon won’t be spoken anymore. The new mother tongue for creating pages on the Web is XML (eXtensible Markup Language), the second-generation HTML available with Internet Explorer 4. How can you put it to work fast? This professional learn-it and do-it guide explains what XML is, shows how to implement it, and helps you master the intricacies. Invaluable for Web developers and content providers alike.

Summary: With JAVA background – you should be fine.
Rating: 4

With some java background, using XML Complete to learn XML is not a bad idea. The programs are well written. I do have some compilation errors with some of the programs; but with a little fix you’re good to go.

Summary: I renamed this book “XML Complete CRAP”
Rating: 1

After reading through this book, I was so thoroughly disgusted that I took the time to print out a new title, “XML Complete CRAP”, and tape it to the spine of this book. I even matched the color and the font exactly! Why did I spend an hour of my time doing this? Because I wanted to save my co-workers the effort of pulling this ridiculous book off our bookshelf and opening it. This book is a “complete” joke. The writing is muddled, the layout and font are awful, and the examples are repeatedly copied and pasted to fluff up the book and make it look respectable. I would be astonished if there was a worse book out there.

Summary: It’s a mirage
Rating: 1

I read this book cover to cover before I took out the CD. What could be simpler – just download the parser and off you go. No it didn’t work like that. The parser isn’t on the Microsoft site in that form and without it the book is a waste of time. I find it amazing that a book like this can be written that fails on the most fundamental point – the basic tools aren’t included.

Summary: BAD
Rating: 1

What was the author thinking i mean the book just talks about java infact one whole chapter i brought the book to learn XML and it doesn’t teach you that it teaches you more java then XML.

Summary: Perhaps the worst computer book I have ever read
Rating: 1

This book is bad on so many levels, it’s hard to know where to begin. The typesetter was clearly drunk, as evidenced by the unreadable spacing and inconsistent typefaces used in the code samples. The code samples themselves were often either useless, or just flat-out wrong. The Java code was not only completely extraneous, it was hideously bad, throwing out any semblance of style or normal coding conventions. The XML grammar itself was presented in difficult-to-read snippets of BNF notation, which is an incredibly irritating way to try to learn new concepts. I think the author must have been cutting and pasting from the w3c spec.

It doesn’t even seem worth pointing out that much of the information in the book is long out of date.

Just unspeakably wretched. Buy any other XML book, or buy none. You’d be better off.

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