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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Quantity Not Quality, September 5, 2001
This book is thick, nearly 1300 pages. But do not let the size and title fool you, this book does exlain the chapter topic contents well, but I rated it three stars and here is why?
1. Chapters too short: The introduction to XML Schemas is only four pages and the Writing XML Schemas section is only about five pages, too short, that is one star minus.
2. SOAP/XML section too short, does not produce full fledged samples on how to use this HTTP/XML technology in its soon to be replacement of the DCOM wire protocol for COM and IIOP for CORBA.
3. Why does this book hold a thick chapter on XML Tools? Who cares? I would have like to have seen the length of the XML Tools chapter eliminated in favor of extending the chapter/section on XML Schemas, XMI- Extensible Metadata Interchange, and XSLT, and perhaps a chapter or two or three on beginning, intermediate, and advances XML Parser construction in both C++ and Java side by side, so as to appreciate the third party vendors, as well as beefing up your compiler/parser/generator programming skills in the XML world.
4. Mastering is not appropriate title, more like Superficial learning.
5. Content Ok, Font settings OK on the eye, but way to much third party XML support technologies that one may never use. This book should have focused on more XML syntax samples than what is already in the book, the XMI chapter should have been included, the XML Schemas should have its own lengthy but fulfilling chapter, XSLT vs CSS should have been investigated more, Object persistance support for C++ and Java class objects in the XML would have been smarter to include. SOAP protocol and its uses with existing component architectures, COM, CORBA, Java Beans, C++ ACE Network programming, but nooooooooooooo!In Summary, this book is fill, and superficial. Indeed disappointing, I know of one book and another on the horizon due out in the upcoming months, both from Addison-Wesley, first is Modeling XML Applications in UML or something to this effect and the other upcoming title, is XML Nitty Gritty...
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