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Title: Designing XML Internet Applications by Michael Leventhal, David Lewis, Matthew Fuchs ISBN: 0136168221 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 15 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.4

Rating: 5
Summary: Spacefiller without any real focus
Comment: This is obviously a book where the authors commited themselves to writing a certain number of pages and then, half-way into the work they realized that didn't have enought material to cover it. The totally useless 100-page poorly-commented pre-release Java source code for a DOM-implementation in chapter 10 is a particularily good example of this.

Another horrible chapter is chapter 11, which contains an explataion of user interface interaction that is so overly abstract but still so extremely stupid that I've used that particular chapter as an example of how a really useless book should be written.

Also, early in the book the author explains that the book is amed towards rpogrammers. It's interesting to see that they hardly ever back their examples up with and source code at all.

In short. Don't buy this book.

Rating: 2
Summary: I'm not impressed.
Comment: I was looking for a clean and concise approach to XML. Instead I got the impression that this book was just an excuse for the author to squeeze in as much minutia on SGML as he thought he could get away with.

It does give good background on XML along with a mind numbing amount of hype.

Look elsewhere for a good introduction to using XML.

Rating: 3
Summary: Good XML summary, too much reliance on Perl scripts
Comment: It's a pretty decent indication of the potential of the XML document/messaging structure, but lacks significant insight into designing any type of formal business application.

Most of the book relies heavly on perl scripts for message processing. I wish some attention was directed at VB/ASP or CGI for message processing.

With few XML books on the market, I would recommend this book, as it provides a good insight of the potential of XML.