XML In A Nutshell

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XML In A Nutshell

What awonderful book! In 480 pages, O'Reilly has managed to put together what Iconsider an essential reference work for programmers having to deal with XML.This book is neither padded with unnecessary details that only serve to showoff the writer's ability to handle a keyboard, nor is it a dictionary of theW3C specification, as some other works appear to be. Simply put, it is a wellwritten and well researched work.

The wellorganized contents are divided into two major sections. The largest sectiondeals with the aspects of XML currently of interest to programmers: XMLfundamentals, DTDs, namespaces, XML on the Web, XSL transformations, Xpath,Xlinks, XPointers, CSS, DOM, and SAX are each given between 20 and 30 pages of coverage.The smaller section contains references for XML 1.0, DOM, SAX, etc., and evensome UTF-8 Unicode character sets of languages other than English.

However,XML In A Nutshell doesn't pretend to be the "all in one" solution to yourinformation needs; therefore, you should consider supplementing it with otherXML-related books.

With that said, if you are contemplating XML, this is a must-havebook.

- ThomasWagner

XMLIn A Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Elliotte Rusty Harold and W. Scott Means, O'Reilly &Associates, Inc., http://www.oreilly.com.

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ISBN:0-596-00058-8

CoverPrice: US$29.95

(480pages)