Schaum's Easy Outline of XML [Paperback]

Ed Tittel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071422455 | ISBN-13: 978-0071422451 | Publication Date: March 1, 2004 | Edition: 1

What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, there's no series that does it better. Each book is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, these new titles feature a streamlined, updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials. Each book:

• Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
• Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast
• Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject
• Deliver expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
• Perfect for last-minute test preparation
• So small and light that they fit in a backpack!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071422455
• ISBN-13: 978-0071422451
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,462,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ed Tittel is a full-time freelance writer, trainer, and consultant who specializes in information security, markup languages, and networking technologies. He is a regular contributor to numerous TechTarget websites; teaches online security and technology courses for HP; and writes regularly for Tom's Hardware and ITExpertVoice.

Ed has contributed to over 100 books on various computing subjects, including a dozen different titles in the ...For Dummies series. He is probably best known for creating the Exam Cram series of IT certification prep books in 1997, and for having edited that series from 1997 until 2006. Ed's best-selling titles include "HTML, XHTML and CSS For Dummies" (soon to go into a 7th edition, for a cumulative total of 13 editions of HTML For Dummies titles he's worked on), "The Guide to TCP/IP" (which he co-authored with protocol expert Laura Chappell), "Windows Server 2008 For Dummies," and "Networking Essentials." He's also written numerous titles on security including the "CISSP Study Guide" (4th edition, with co-authors James Michael Stewart and Mike Chapple), "The PC Magazine Guide to Fighting Spyware, Viruses, and Malware," and the "TISCA Training Guide."

For more information on Ed, please visit his personal Website at www.edtittel.com. You can also visit his profile on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/edtittel to get information about various blogs and other activities.

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3.0 out of 5 stars adequate for a quick introduction, July 18, 2005

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This review is from: Schaum's Easy Outline of XML (Paperback)

I would not characterise this book as being elegant in phrase. Yet in a somewhat mechanistic way, it does teach the basics of XML. Enough so that you can understand DTDs, Schemas, mixed content mode etc. Where, for example, you hopefully appreciate that mixed content should be avoided if you are defining a new XML application. A little ironic, because XML came from SGML, and the latter is often used in mixed mode.

If you need a quick way to learn XML, this book should be adequate. But if you have time, try consulting a more comprehensive text.

4.0 out of 5 stars Quick and dirty introduction, August 9, 2011

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This review is from: Schaum's Easy Outline of XML (Paperback)

Quick and dirty introduction to XML.

It does not give details on how to structure your data in XML, i.e. what should I call my elements, how should I develope my DOM.

This book will quickly run your through an XML document, XML schema, XML DTD, and DOM & SAX.

1.0 out of 5 stars This guy can't write, December 26, 2007

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This review is from: Schaum's Easy Outline of XML (Paperback)

If you don't know jak about XML, you may find that this guy just does not know how to write. When I read (top of p. 4) "a tag is simply the opening or closing tag or the empty tag", that was it, I gave up (think of a good analogy.. "a noun is a type of word"; "an electronic device is a thing that uses electronics"). I'm sure Ed is good at all things XML but he is clearly a programmer who can't explain. Lots of definitions to memorize, but no clear examples that would clarify what takes a thousand words to read. Markup is thrown around without clearly definition; historical context would have helped, eg, troff and nroff, Latex, with embedded tags,
the similarity to HTML's presentation aspect... It's an OK book but hard to read. On the plus side, it is fairly concise. I give it a C- to D.