Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More

Got an used copy of this for my XML study.This book was arranged with great concentration of various key concepts in the XML realm. Very concise and quite useful for experienced program developers.However, the downside of this book is that some of its examples are not consistent with the Interface Definition, for instance, SAX 2.0, example in this book used .addAttribute Method, which could not be found in SAX 2.0 class definition at all, therefore confusion was there. The same problems were there in the DTD chapter, e.g. vague Entity explaination..For you can get an free copy of this book on the web now, I gave it 3 stars.

Excellent product and seller. Product as described, fast shipping, highly recommend.

This books is quite good for covering a wide range of topics and concisely. But all the time you are reading the book, you get the doubt "What could I be missing?" - as the coverage of topics is so minimal and unattached. Though, at the end of the day, those topics require no more attention than that, to get to that wisdom it takes time and this book does not bother to get you that wisdom.Otherwise, this is quite a good book.

"The character sequence that ends a CDATA section ]]> must not appear inside the element content. Instead, the closing greater-than character must be escaped using the appropriate entity >."That's incorrect. Within a CDATA section, the greater-than character cannot be escaped as >. The only way to escape the CDATA ends sequence is to end the CDATA section, print the end sequence, and restart the CDATA section.I knocked two stars off my 5 star review because of this error.

Is this a teaching book or a reference book? It is too advanced for teaching beginner XML. The examples are OK, but badly presented for teaching advanced XML. On the other hand it is incomplete as a reference book, for example the treatment of both schema and parsers are too sketchy. I feel the book lacks a target group and thus falls between too many stools.

Don't expect anything else or you will be dissapointed. I got somequick reference cards that are free for download that contain basiclythe same information! There are some code snippets and some explanitorylines of text, but nothing that helps you understand how the differentXML constructs really work - unless you already know it and just can'tremember the name, but this is what I have code-completion in my editor for. I would have hoped for some recipies that solvetypical problems that augment the pure reference style listing, but there's nothing like that.For me as an XML beginner this book is not very usefull and I doubt it is for a experienced developer.

Who can remember all the little details surrounding XML? This book is a great summery of the most important XML technologies. It isn't a tutorial, it isn't for beginners, it's for "What's the name of that XPath function that removes excess spaces?" (normalize-space). Highly recommended for finding answers fast.

A good XML reference. Nice references to other peripheral supported platforms.