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3.0 out of 5 stars
Not an easy read -- mistakes -- relatively good coverage, May 22, 2003
This review is from: Beginning C# XML: Essential XML Skills for C# Programmers (Paperback)
This is not an easy book to read. The first 3 chapters are very heavy going with little in the way of productive examples. I was looking for a book that gave me the basics of XML with C#. I was not looking for a book that spent the first 3 chapters covering the basics of XML on its own. Having said that, I think the authors do a fairly good job of covering the material that they are attempting to do. This is definitely an introduction to XML, though, and there are a lot of unanswered detail questions that you will obviously need to research in other books. There are several mistakes in the quoted code, and the fact that the WROX site is no longer available makes this a tough book to work through. Fortunately my C# is good enough to spot most of the syntactical errors, but I pity someone who is new to C# too. In a nutshell, this book is okay, but you're going to need a lot more than this to really get to grips with the stuff. I'm going to look at a couple of the O'Reilly books...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
beginner XML, March 5, 2003
This review is from: Beginning C# XML: Essential XML Skills for C# Programmers (Paperback)
ALOT examples are missing in this book OR don't work, but this book is defineltly NOT good enough to get you started. The merits of the book is a good intro to new technology when working with .net but what is the good if the code don't work
as in this book there is missing code in chapter1 adding a recordset to xmlfile
chapter3 code in p118 and 119 don't work
Chapter 8 discusses xslt isn a very poor manner, in addition to all the missing xslt files and the non working application
in the download section. At this point I cannot continue reviewing this book, there are
too many fundamental flaws in code and I don't know where to begin As usual I have resorted to wrox support and again there is no comment to no surprise. As a veteran of xml and xslt for the last 4 yrs, if you want
a book with alot of questions and NO answers this is the book for you. until the code is this book is revised by the authors or WROX
this book is a death sentence to ALL who want to know about xml
and xslt in the .net world The validity of the review is only good if the programmer
actually tries to run the code and not just say it that
it works. Lets see if wiley can get these missing examples up and running for us
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Could have been better, June 17, 2003
This review is from: Beginning C# XML: Essential XML Skills for C# Programmers (Paperback)
I bought this book as an introductory text to teach myself XML with C#. The book gives me that, but it could have been done far better. I am left with the overall impression that this was either a first time effort for the authors, or that the book was rushed to make a deadline and not enough editorial review and proof-reading took place (I suspect both). Simple things like the illogical order in which topics are presented throughout each chapter, misleading diagrams, unclear or just plain bad use of grammar, inadequate use of examples in the early chapters, some VB code snippets (it's supposed to be a C# book) are all simple mistakes that could have been eliminated at editorial stage, and which, had this been done, would have made for a far better reader experience. This book does it's job, but I am sure there are better texts out there.
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