Building XML Applications [Import] [Paperback]

Simon St.; Cerami, Ethan Laurent (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071341153
• ISBN-13: 978-0071341158
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,981,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Simon St. Laurent is an Editor with O'Reilly and Associates. Prior to that, he'd been a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker. He lives in Dryden, NY.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars no detail on DOM and XSLT makes this a weak book, November 10, 1999

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Mark Volkmann (St. Charles, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building XML Applications (Paperback)

In my opinion, the most important tools for building XML applications are DOM and XSLT. This book covers neither of them. It only covers SAX and CSS which are poor substitutes. While SAX has some advantages over DOM, it does not help with outputting new XML which is a common need.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, September 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Building XML Applications (Webdev) (Paperback)

I recommend this book. It probably shouldn't be your first, or only book on XML though. For example, it doesn't go into much detail about designing/creating DTD's, or at least wasn't very clear in that aspect. However, for me, it served it's purpose well, to show me how to use XML, doing so using some small but practical problems.

I'm very satisfied.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Overview of XML and practical Java examples, August 19, 1999

By A Customer

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This review is from: Building XML Applications (Webdev) (Paperback)

I was looking for a book that gave me a brief overview of the XML specs and then some examples of how to use it. This book delivers with the appropriate focus on Java. The authors do a good job of covering several different parsers and parsing methods and provide solid information on SAX. As a beginning Java programmer, I found this book to be very helpful.