Editorial Reviews:
In the crowd of XML books, this book stands out, with its specific focus on the needs of Web-page authors. Elliotte Harold handles the technical details and programming aspects as briefly as possible in order to concentrate on the pragmatic issues of producing efficient Web sites. Harold divides the 11 chapters of the book into three parts. The first part covers the basics of XML, providing enough information to start creating XML Web pages. This section includes information on the philosophy behind XML, how XML uses extensibility in place of a multitude of tags, how to render XML documents into HTML, how to get pages onto the Web, and how to use Extensible Style Language (XSL) style sheets. The second part discusses more advanced issues, such as document type definitions, how to assemble documents from a variety of sources, how to use attributes to describe elements, and how to use Xlinks and Xpointers to provide greater functionality than HTML's hyperlinks and anchors. Each chapter builds upon the preceding ones so by the time you get to part 3, "Practical XML," you're able to follow right along as Harold demonstrates XML in action. In this section, Harold uses XML to build a push technology site and then a genealogy site, element by element. An enclosed CD-ROM contains the source code for all the book's examples. --Elizabeth Lewis
Not since Java has a new language turned so many heads in the Web community. Why is XML generating so much buzz? It offers greater flexibility and control when creating Web documents for one. If HTML doesnt have the tags you need, for example, make your own with XML. And thats just the beginning of what this powerful metamarkup language can do. In XML: Extensible Markup Language, renowned author and programming guru Elliotte Rusty Harold combines clear, concise explanations with practical real-world examples to give you a complete understanding of XML. You get expert advice on creating XML documents, step-by-step instructions for adding customized structure to documents, tips for converting HTML to XML, strategies for assembling documents from multiple data sources, in-depth coverage of international scripts, character sets, fonts, and Unicode, thorough analysis of Xlinks and Xpointers, and much more. The CD-ROM that accompanies XML: Extensible Markup Language features the source code for all the samples in the book as well as copies of Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Communicator.
Customer Reviews:
Displaying 1 to 5 of 22 total reviews (Page 1 of 5):
 Excellent place to start
So you've learned HTML and DHTML and CSS and who needs another bunch of angle brackets?Oh, well. XML is perfectly symetric (no more unbalanced "BR"s). Isn't that nice? But there's no getting around it. You've gotta learn XML because everybody really is moving toward its adoption. This book will do a good job of getting you started. It took me all the way from a standing start to creating my own Windows Channel (CDF) which is quite a lot. The book "XML Applications" will take you to the next step and these things become dated quickly. But if you start here, you will be happy about it.  html is dead, long live html
You mean like how DOS was supposed to be replaced by better operating systems by 1982? Really -- we're going to be stuck with plain 'ol HTML for decades.  DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! GET *THE XML BIBLE*
This book has been updated by Elliotte Harold and for some unfortunate reason is now called The XML Bible. (unfortunate for me, I just got this book to discover that it's completely revised. I'm out $32.) Still the best available...
...if you are interested in a concise overview of the W3C open-standard XML technology, as opposed to a getting yet another Microsoft sales pitch (a la Wrox). Every book on every Internet technology gets outdated fast. The book is outdated. That being said, I found the book clear, fast, and easy to understand. The author went to extensive pains to point out how quickly things were shifting in XML. His examples were well thought out, logical, and contained few (if any) obvious errata. Furthermore, he took the trouble to point out the cases where the commercial toolage failed to correctly implement the W3C standard. Readers who can deal with these caveats will find it a good way to come up to speed in a vendor-neutral manner. I was aware that the book was obsolete when I bought it. But I reviewed the alternatives carefully before I bought and decided that it was the best of the lot. I am happy with my purchase now that it's about 2/3 read. (The O'Reilly version isn't due out until December, or I would have been tempted to buy that instead. I may still.) I hope that Mr. Harold will update the examples as needed, that he will continue to stick exclusively to the W3C standard, that he will demonstrate using all the available tools (including the emerging open-source tools), and will point out cases where the commercial and open-source tools fail to comply with the W3C standard.  The book is out of date. It has to be rewritten
No software support, the contents are not comply with the technology. I couldn't get anything out of it. I found myself reading sample chapters from here and there. More Customer Reviews:
Next Page
|
