Xml Complete (Mcgraw Hill Complete Series) [Paperback]

Steven Holzner (Author)

Book Description

Series: Mcgraw Hill Complete Series | Publication Date: December 1997

This is a complete guide to XML (extensible markup language), a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language. XML is the next-generation HTML. It will be available in early 1998 with Internet Explorer 4. The CD-ROM features an XML-compatible browser, and numerous examples of documents illustrating the capabilities of XML. Steven Holzner is the author of "Java 1.1: No Experience Required".

Product Details

• Paperback: 515 pages
• Publisher: Computing Mcgraw-Hill (December 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0079137024
• ISBN-13: 978-0079137029
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,254,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steven Holzner is an award-winning author who has written extensively on Ajax and JavaScript. With over 100 titles published, he's sold over a million copies of his books and been translated into 16 languages. As a former faculty member of MIT and Cornell, he teaches corporate seminars around the country.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the worst computer book I have ever read, October 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Xml Complete (Mcgraw Hill Complete Series) (Paperback)

This book is bad on so many levels, it's hard to know where to begin. The typesetter was clearly drunk, as evidenced by the unreadable spacing and inconsistent typefaces used in the code samples. The code samples themselves were often either useless, or just flat-out wrong. The Java code was not only completely extraneous, it was hideously bad, throwing out any semblance of style or normal coding conventions. The XML grammar itself was presented in difficult-to-read snippets of BNF notation, which is an incredibly irritating way to try to learn new concepts. I think the author must have been cutting and pasting from the w3c spec.

It doesn't even seem worth pointing out that much of the information in the book is long out of date.

Just unspeakably wretched. Buy any other XML book, or buy none. You'd be better off.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BAD, October 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Xml Complete (Mcgraw Hill Complete Series) (Paperback)

What was the author thinking i mean the book just talks about java infact one whole chapter i brought the book to learn XML and it doesn't teach you that it teaches you more java then XML.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's a mirage, August 29, 2000

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Lawrence Armour (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Xml Complete (Mcgraw Hill Complete Series) (Paperback)

I read this book cover to cover before I took out the CD. What could be simpler - just download the parser and off you go. No it didn't work like that. The parser isn't on the Microsoft site in that form and without it the book is a waste of time. I find it amazing that a book like this can be written that fails on the most fundamental point - the basic tools aren't included.