Product Details

• Actors: Jon Bosak, Tim Bray, CM Sperberg-McQueen
• Directors: Bryan L. Bell
• Format: Color, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: December 5, 1999
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0967848806
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #570,053 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

What is XML, and why should you care? These questions are thoroughly answered in Introduction to XML, a tight 80-minute program featuring several big names in XML development, such as Tim Bray and Microsoft's Jean Paoli. Amazingly, a six-chapter tape on programming narrated by programmers holds the interest of a nontechnical audience, but the producers know who their audience is, and they narrow their focus accordingly. Managers and executives can easily learn why XML is a powerful standard and what benefits it brings to businesses and other organizations that choose to implement it. As we move into an age in which information is a kind of currency, we are finding it increasingly important to transfer that currency more easily; XML is the mint of the future. Find out why, and get your business lined up with the rest of the world by viewing Introduction to XML. --Rob Lightner

Tim Martin, webmaster, Dance Europe Magazine [e-mail]

I guess I'm officially a geek now that I've spent last Friday night, enthralled, watching a video about XML instead of partying with the rest of society.

I enjoyed the tape very much...I realized some things I had never thought about and feel like I know so much more about XML than I did before.

I think this is a great tape and I should think everyone will want a copy. And although this is the icing on the cake itself, I thought your cover art for the box was very nice.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction to XML, March 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Introduction to XML [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I used this video to introduce XML to a roomful of managers and programmers unfamiliar with XML. Although the pace starts slowly, the content is just right as an overview and introduction and it picks up as the video progresses. The video moves from general to more specific information and gives code exmples to help explain the differences between SGML, HTML, and XML. It will help business leaders understand why they should incorporate XML into their information structures now to be ready for the future. If you want to learn to code XML, this is not the video for you. But use it if you need to help a general audience understand why XML is vital, it is a good buy.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very basic, not for techies, February 1, 2002

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B. Pomeroy "bpomeroy54" (Sewell, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Introduction to XML [VHS] (VHS Tape)

An excellent introduction and overview of XML for non-technical people, primarily managers and others chiefly concerned with ROI and the business implications of XML. All but the most novice developers, however, will find this video way too basic. Too many talking heads, and a mediocre use of visual examples. In fact, there's little here that couldn't have been covered as easily in an audiotape or book. A "sequel" of this video for developers already familiar with XML would be most welcome.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful introduction to XML, February 19, 2000

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David E. Garnett (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Introduction to XML [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video does an excellent job of explaining the evolution of SGML to XML with clear example of how they relate to HTML. In addition this video provides senior managers with a wake up call about the importance of properly using XML to provide the maximum international portability of their information. As the calendar hit 01-01-00 we clearly entered into an age where we'll see an explosion of multipurposed information available on virtually any platform. The use of XML will be the key for corporations that want to reuse and protect their corporate knowledge bases. This video has the right mix of technical and business perspectives on XML.