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Title: XML Application Development with MSXML 4.0 by Danny Ayers, Steven Livingstone, Stephen Mohr, Darshan Singh, Michael Corning ISBN: 1-86100-589-X Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 16 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great, but keep Kay handy
Comment: MSXML4 is the fastest XML parser in the world and this book gives you needed details to take advantage of it. Some of these chapters are a gold mine. Some have obviously been sitting around from a couple years ago.
Please Wrox, stop it! I'll pay the same price to have the gold mine chapters alone.
Micheal Corning's chapter is filled with truly worthwhile stuff about the parser, coming as it does from Redmond. Danny Ayer's chapter on implement a XLink system is really brilliant and well written. Corning and Ayer show that you can be thoughtful and literate when writing about the specifics of a new technology.
The chapter on XPath is really incomplete to the point of not being an unusable reference. For the concat function we are given the example of concat('sku','562','B'). Now exactly why would anyone do this? Pointless examples do not help anyone. The concat function is almost always used for placing XML data with literal text. I use concat is creating URLs like this
With the contains function we are not told what happens if the second string is zero length. It always returns true, which seems pretty odd to me, which, in turn, makes it something worthwhile to mention.
Also, I don't see any mention of one of XPath's weirdest quirks. Namely, if a item in a filter evaluation is a nodelist, that XPath has uses an ANY semantics. That is too say
//product[@price>$Specials/@price]
gives us products that are more expensive than any of the specials.
The fault here is with the Wrox editors, not the authors. Chapters 9 10 and 11 are also great.
A very worthwhile, nay, essential book for Microsoft technology.
Alas, the book is already slightly out of date as MS has released MSXML4 SP1.
You will need to add
oXMLResp.setProperty("NewParser", True) to various places in the code
Rating: 5
Summary: Very readable and has good level of detail
Comment: The book is very readable; I read half the book in one sitting and found that the flow from one topic to the next was very natural.
To start with this book covers pretty much all versions of MSXML, including older non standard features such as WD-xsl. Naturally there is more focus on the new standards, but examples and recommendations are given for all. One feature I very much appreciated was a list of versions that shipped various OS / Browser / Major Applications.
This book also scores highly as a lot of examples are giving in Jscript, but also includes examples in VB COM and VBScript.
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Title: Professional Visual Basic 6 XML by James G. Britt, Teun Duynstee ISBN: 1861003323 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: 30 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More by Aaron Skonnard, Martin Gudgin ISBN: 0201740958 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: XSLT : Programmer's Reference by Michael Kay ISBN: 0764543814 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 03 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Visual Basic .NET Serialization Handbook by Andy Olsen, Matjaz Juric, Adil Rehan, Eric Lippert ISBN: 1861008007 Publisher: Wrox Press Inc Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML, Second Edition by Graeme Malcolm ISBN: 0735617740 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 12 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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