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In addition to being a tutorial for learning how to use XML as an effective way to represent and transmit data across the Web, Read more

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Book Rocks!!
this is very well written book. the material presented in this book are exhaustive and gets you good insight on how xml would be used with dbms. the chapters 2,3 and 4 are very informatiove as they list ou tthe steps required for converting db table to xml and vice versa.

No details on NATIVE XML DBs???
Interesting that you basically ignore native XML DBs. They are the definitive choice in most XML Document Centric environments. While RDBs remain quite strong in XML Data Centric models, they must resort to BLOBs or risk an order of magnitude of sluggishness compared to native XML DBs, such as our GoXML DB. Even with BLOBs, you cannot create a new document from multiple existing documents because of the columnar structure. The lack of a full table of contents when your title is 'Professional XML Databases' is disappointing... Good overview of new XML and database trends
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I hope that guy from London doesn't code professionally
This is a code snippet from the book on page 25 (first code sample in the book): Could have been better
I bought this book as an introductory text to teach myself XML with C#. The book gives me that, but it could have been done far better. I am left with the overall impression that this was either a first time effort for the authors, or that the book was rushed to make a deadline and not enough editorial review and proof-reading took place (I suspect both). Not an easy read -- mistakes -- relatively good coverage
This is not an easy book to read. The first 3 chapters are very heavy going with little in the way of productive examples. I was looking for a book that gave me the basics of XML with C#. I was not looking for a book that spent the first 3 chapters covering the basics of XML on its own. Read more

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Highly impressive
What a delight to be able to actually "read" a book on VBA.
Julitta Korol on Excel
A very useful book for me.Her style and organization make an excellent complement to the more Microsoft-inspired style and organization of material of other experts.Her "warp" to their "woof." She's got a new one on Excel coming out in late 2005 and I'll definitely get it. ... Read more

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Editorial Review

XSL is an important piece of the XML puzzle and comprises two parts. The first--XSL Transformations (XSLT)--is responsible for transforming XML documents into other formats, including XML and HTML. The second part is XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO)--a language for applying styles to documents to prepare them for various output formats. Read more

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thoughtfully consistent and well presented
I might have been among the first hundreds people to own this book and I still have to use it; I even use it often now as XML-based applications are growing day by day. The book is an outstanding one when it comes to concision, to the fundamentals of XML/XSLT. The methOdology adopted is that of teaching by examples, going from simple examples progresssively through more complex examples that re-use the same simple examples but introduce new concepts that are to be explained within the new chapter. There is no comparable material in the litterature for the beginner and the intermediate learner of XSLT.
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Get it for the WMI coverage
I read Mr. Martinsson's other book, ActivePerl, and I really enjoy his writing style. I guess some people get it, and some don't. This book is especially strong if you are interested in WMI. While it touches on XML, it may be misleading to put XML first in the title. Nonetheless, it is an excellent treatment of scripting for SQL Server 2000 ...

Good Book
Wanted to learn programming SQL Server 2000 with WMI. I'm a programmer, so the book's approach fits me. WMI text and samples worked for me. I learned WMI. I'm happy. Save Yer Dough
I thought this book was one of the worst I have ever purchased.There are annoying mistakes in the sample queries, e.g., mispelled field names that will just drive you crazy.I can't speak for the WMI section, I bought this book for the SQL Server 2000 with XML info.I learned more at MSDN. ... Read more

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Not Impressed
I am VERY disappointed with this book.It was the required reading for a barnesandnoble.com online class, so I mistakenly figured it would be a good book.
HTML: Your Visual Blueprint
This book has good information, but is poorly organized. The "lessons" are not organized in a logical way.
Could have done so much better.
I bought this book because I wanted to learn CSS and, apart from this being the only book in my local store that covered CSS, I thought learning HTML and XHTML would be a bonus. The fact that the book covers the whole lot is a very good idea, the execution, however, leaves much to be desired.
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The author responds
The book doesn't claim to be an application development guide, nor is it a database API reference. The world of open source software is changing very rapidly, too, so rather than write about items that would soon be out of date, I tried to focus on techniques and strategies. It's a very broad field, and this is an interdisciplinary book, talking about document management as well as about delivering relational information as XML.It doesn't cover XSLT, nor libxml, but in 432 pages I couldn't have done justice to XSLT, and there have been two released of libxml since publication. So instead, you'll find out about using SAX from C and Perl, and learn enough XML, SQL and network programming to get by, and maybe have some fun along the way.

Where was the editor?
This book has some useful information, though it suffers from lack ofediting. I thought that a draft copy accidently went to press when Istarted reading this. Many of the errors in this book are typos, but someof the errors have more to do with presentation and may confuse the readerabout the topic. Less XML-Databases and more opensource
This book is not an application development guide. But it mentions aboutsome *open source* tools and covers some API available in Perl, Java and Ctowards the end of the book. And the rest of the book is filled withdescriptions of other open source tools, not completely irrelevant, butprobably you were not looking for and distracting.Read more

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An Excellent Resource
This book is, without a doubt, one of the most helpful resources available to anyone seeking to understand DocBook XSL. Bob Stayton has done an incredible job gathering everything you need to know regarding this topic, and he presents it in a style that is both easy to navigate and easy to understand.
A must-have for all serious docbook users
I purchased that book as soon as it came out: I just knew I'd need it some day. That day came three weeks ago and I got into the book with a vengeance. I needed to utterly customize the docbooks stylesheets and produce 12'000 different pdf's in four languages out of a huge documentation DB. With the book next to me it was a breeze. Extremely well written, knowledgeable, accurate, just verbose enough to get the point across and and and. Indispensable
With this book and "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" in-hand, IRead more

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Good primer
(Four stars to me means "very good".)Read more

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Too much Schematron for an XML Schema world
I bought this book, in part, based on the positive reviews I've read here. But in actually reading the book, I've found that far too much time is spent on the Schematron rule-based schema validation mechanism. Kirsanov evangelizes Schematron with the fervor of a religious zealot. By the middle of the second chapter (the chapters are long--that's okay) I was already tired of hearing how Schematron is the best thing since sliced bread. I'm not particularly interested in using Schematron (though I see how the hybrid XSDL/Schematron approach could be valuable) because I'm already committed to using XSDL schemas. Unfortunately, the examples in this book use Schematron rather than XSDL, so the value of the examples is limited.
A very good "companion" title for an XML developer...
If you are looking for an XSLT book that is more than just a reference or tutorial manual, you might like XSLT 2.0 Web Development by Dmitry Kirsanov (Prentice Hall).
Great book for pragmatic developers
If to try to classify this book, I would put it in 'how to's' category, rather than 'tutorials'. The book summarizes author's significant experience with building web sites that are sanely organized and easy to maintain. The approach he advocates is somewhat minimalist: XML to markup the content, XSLT to transform it into HTML and to perform other auxiliary tasks -- 'The Pragmatic Programmer' followers will appreciate this. It should be noted that the content is mostly static or treated as such; how to fetch data out of a database and to build an XML DOM/SAX representation is left for other numerous books to ponder. While XSLT is the main subject, the scope of the book is broader. It includes developing an XML vocabulary for the site, choosing a schema language and writing a schema (here Schematron gets special attention), designing stylesheets for transformation, including tasks like checking files existence and generating images via extension functions written in Java. Finally, there is a section about batch processing with XSLT for automatic generation/regeneration of the whole site. Every task is illustrated with examples, generic enough so that you can modify them for your own project.
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Editorial Review

Aimed at Oracle professionals planning or doing XML work, this in-depth guide, covering Oracle8 and Oracle8i, comes from Oracle's lead XML technical evangelist, Steve Muench. No prior knowledge of XML is required to dive into the book, but readers are assumed to be familiar with SQL and with programming using Java or PL/SQL.Read more

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Nice, but out of date
Unless you're still running 7 or 8i, I can't recommend this book.As another reviewer noted, Oracle has added a lot of XML features in 9i and 10g.The content itself is great -- the authors should consider a second edition that covers the current Oracle XML features.

Good Book
If you want to learn about using Oracle's XML packages and functions, this is a good book.It fills in for the lack of Oracle documentation.

THE book for Oracle and XML
This book with real working code samples saved the day for me when building an XML Loader.One drawback: It doesn't explain XSL real well which is crucial for transforming your XML document into the canonical Read more

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piece of garbage
Nice cut and paste job of basic information freely available out on the web. Don't waste your money..

Good for Basics
Good for Basics, Textbook like approach.Easy to follow ... Read more

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.net framework
Well I am a very powerful computer programmer now, even though I do not have either college, or university degree. I am working on a bachelors degree at the University of Berkley. ... Read more

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Excellent book, very well structured and succinct
It is very well structured. Organization of the chapters and subsections in each chapter is very well designed and extremely pleasant to follow. Sentences are succinct and straightforward to the point. Excellent code examples are given. Every technical book should be written in this style, in my opinion. This book is one of the best books that I have ever read among many technical books, regardless of the subject.

Great If you are new to .NET Web Services.
I bought this book used for $2.00 right here on Amazon and I must say that it's well worth that price.
Great introduction to web services with ASP.NET
I recently needed to quickly get "up to speed" on creating and using web services with ASP.NET. Although I was already very familiar with XML, SOAP, WSDL, etc., I found the explanations of how web services work to be very useful and understandable. Read more

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Poorly written.
The reason for 1 star is that i cannot put zero stars.
worst ever xml book!
I'm only giving this 1 star because Amazon won't let readers give negative stars. The chapter that contains "a quick history of html" is so far off base, I wouldn't read the rest of this crappy book. The 'author' (I use that word very hesitantly) claims that HTML is 'a simplified version of SGML'. There was a bumpersticker in the early 70s that read "Question Authority", and boy! does it apply to this book! The book writer is NO authority on SGML nor on HTML, thus HOW could he be expected to be any kind of authority on XML? HTML is a DTD WITHIN SGML. It was not developed by 'physicists' to create 'web pages' but as part of Timothy Berners-Lee WWW project for collaborative sharing of documents. While it is true that Timothy began working on the pre-cursor to HTML while working as a junior programmer-consultant for CERN (which is a Physics lab) he was NEVER a physicist, but a designer of typographic-programs (at the time). BY THE WAY, XML is a SUBSET of SGML. SGML is NOT an 'overcomplicated' language, unless you happen to be a twit who can't program to begin with. That's like comparing VB to C. VB is for lazy programmers. C is a far more versatile programming language. It is the same with SGML. XML is to SGML like 'reader's digest' book versions are to the real book, or maybe like those synopsis books that kids used to use for book reviews of books they were too undisciplined and unethical to read.
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Editorial Review

If we ever reach the point where businesses can efficiently and cost-effectively transfer information among themselves, chances are that XML will be the key technology that makes it all work. Read more

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Kooool...
XML,XML,XML everywhere. Excellent resource on XML. Refreshingly different.
When I got this book I already had quite a few XML books in my bookcase, all from Wiley, Addison Wesley, O'Reilly and yes, even Wrox... :-|Read more

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Most XML books focus on the XML language and its related dialects: XSL, Xlink, and Xpointer. Read more

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XML Unexplained
*** Disclaimer: I couldn't finish this book, so my review only covers the first half. For all I know, the 2'nd half is a masterpiece, though I doubt it. **** Just Great...
I think this is the only book on the market that shows useful code. I am very happy that I bought the book. This book is my bible for my consulting job.

Just Great...
I think this is the only book on the market that shows useful code. I am very happy that I bought the book. This book is my bible for my consulting job. ... Read more

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