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Title: Special Edition Using XML by David Gulbransen, Kynn Bartlett, Earl Bingham, Alexander Kachur, Kenrick Rawlings, Andrew H. Watt ISBN: 0-7897-2748-X Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Deficient
Comment: This book was written by six authors. It talks briefly about various XML technologies so you can know they exist. However, this book is deficient at teaching XML.
Rating: 2
Summary: Contains technical errors and omissions
Comment: This book covers a wide breadth of topics in XML, without going thoroughly into the depths of any one topic. It often refers the reader to other materials for depth information. This is as it should be, but then the byline "The ONLY XML book you need" is somewhat dishonest marketing; they should remove it.
Second, _Using XML_ has quite a few typographical errors. So far I've found more than one per 10 pages, more than I'd expect for a Second Edition book.
Far worse, the book contains technical errors and is not clear on important points. As an example of the first grievance, p. 44 states that PCDATA cannot contain <, >, and / characters. In fact, it cannot contain "<" or "&"; ">" can legally appear, but should be escaped for compatibility with SGML, and "/" is just fine. An example on p. 94 puts comments before , yet the xml prolog must occur first in any document (even before whitespace). Mr. Gulbransen should know that. Page 91 uses an unparsed entity inline, violating Well-Formedness Constraint: Parsed Entity. And the example soc="123-00-1234" p. 83 violates Validity Constraint: ID, because a SSN is not a valid Name. Having found all these technical errors in the areas of XML I do know, how can I trust this book to correctly teach me things I don't know?
I also can't say the book is very clear in places where I want it to be. After pp. 130-133, I should know how to associate XML Schemas with XML documents. Instead, I can only blindly follow the example; I surely don't understand what is the role of each of the components, especially of the URI ending with "/contact".
Due to technical inaccuracies and occasional lack of clarity, I cannot recommend this book. I would like to find an XML reference which is similarly broad in scope, yet both clear and correct in its details.
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Title: Special Edition Using Asp.Net by Richard C. Leinecker ISBN: 0789725606 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: The UNIX C Shell Field Guide by Gail Anderson, Paul Anderson ISBN: 013937468X Publisher: Prentice Hall Computer Books Pub. Date: 19 February, 1986 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0321115627 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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