Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days [Paperback]

Simon North (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1575213966 | ISBN-13: 978-1575213965 | Publication Date: April 13, 1999

Sams Teach Yourself XML is an easy-to-use tutorial that breaks down the task of learning XML into 21 focused lessons. Readers learn through clear explanations of concepts, structured step-by-step tasks, and abundant code samples. This book covers all aspects of using XML to publish a wide range of content on the Web.

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From the Publisher

Teach Yourself XML in a Week is organized in the familiar day-by-day format. Each lesson provides a basic overview of the topics being taught, then shows lots of examples illustrating that topic, and follows up with a summary and exercises for further exploration. It will go over in detail what the XML specification is and how it relates to HTML and SGML, and will describe the basics of writing XML code, and creating XML-aware applications.

A step-by-step tutorial to XML; eXtensible Markup Language; the slimmed-down, Web enabled version of SGML from which HTML was created

The XML standard is being advanced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as an alternative and complement to HTML

XML is neutral with respect to vendor, application, and platform, just like HTML --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself XML is an easy-to-use tutorial that breaks down the task of learning XML into 21 focused lessons. Readers learn through clear explanations of concepts, structured step-by-step tasks, and abundant code samples. This book covers all aspects of using XML to publish a wide range of content on the Web.

Product Details

• Paperback: 580 pages
• Publisher: Sams (April 13, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575213966
• ISBN-13: 978-1575213965
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,321,938 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not this time..., December 25, 1999

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J. Osborne "sundownr" (New Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days (Paperback)

Sams has published a number of good computer language books... but this is not one of those "good" books. It appears this book missed the editor's desk entirely because the content of the book is very poorly presented.

The author seems prepared to rewrite parts of this book and should definitely do so.

If you do buy this book I would ask that you keep notes and then forward them to Sams. In this way Sams can then hopefully delivery a much better product... one which will not be a waste of time while reading.

Jim Osborne San Antonio, Texas

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mr. Kimble-itis, February 15, 2000

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Nat Francis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days (Paperback)

This book has a bad case of Mr. Kimble-itis (the bumbling county agricultural agent from the TV show "Green Acres" who could never get to the point). The author has a hard time getting to the point, and rambles all over the place telling you what it is you don't need to know at this point, but why it is important that I'm not going to tell you about it but will tell you, maybe, at some point later, but, aww' what the heck, here is a bunch of stuff you don't need to know.

The errata sheet is rather long, and some of the errors are so glaring I wonder if anyone edited this thing. I spent an hour trying to figure out why the book appeared to contradict itself in several places on the same page until finding the errata sheet.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty decent book, September 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days (Paperback)

I needed a book that would give me a jump start on XML. Normally I am kind of apprehensive about the "Teach yourself Swalhili, Russian, Hungarian and Finnish in just 24 hours!!!" kind of books. I decided to buy it based on the reviews by other readers and it was a good decision. This book really gave me what I needed: a good induction into xml and all related areas and practical examples. However, to my taste the authors could have spent some more on DOM. That is why I rate this book 4 stars.