XML BOOKS

Berthold Daum, Markus Scheller

Review

Success with Electronic Business is the complete technical guide to designing industrial-strength electronic business systems for the long haul. Written by technologists for technologists, it offers unprecedented insight into the electronic business state-of-the art -- and specific guidance with the make-or-break decisions implementers face in designing architectures, building systems, and choosing products.

Author:
Michael Kay

Review

XSLT is the true muscle behind XML and is integral to putting XML to work in the real world. This title is simply a must-have for any developer utilizing XML. This book starts off with chapters that rapidly introduce the concepts and set the context for the core of the book, which is a complete documentation of the XSLT standard. The book uses this space well to explore the transformation process and the tree structure that is used for both input and output of style sheet documents. By the time the reader gets to the reference section of the book, he or she will be convinced of the power of XSLT. Review by Steven W. Plain

View chapter 1 online: XSLT in Context 

Author:
Neil Bradley

From the Inside Flap

This book covers a family of standards developed by W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium). These standards emerged out of a proposal for a stylesheet language, submitted in 1997, which was to be called 'XSL' (eXtensible Stylesheet Language). However, during its gestation, this proposal was eventually pulled apart into three separate standards. The first of these, XPath, defines a mechanism for locating information in XNIL documents, and it has many other uses beyond its role in formatting...

Author:
David Hunter

Review

Beginning XML explains and demonstrates XML and its related technologies, including XSLT, XPath, DOM and SAX. This book will teach you how to use XML in your data exchange applications - on the Web, for e-commerce or in n-tier architectures - by explaining XML theory, reinforced with plenty of practical examples and real-life examples. Read it and get a grip on what makes XML tick. Wrox Press Ltd., Paperback, 823 pages.

Author:
John E. Simpson

Review

XML promises to structure and deliver data within the next generation of Web browsers. Understanding XML can be difficult, but John Simpson's guide explains it with style, simplicity, and wit, showing what XML is and how it works.

Author:
Neil Bradley

Review

"Both a great way of learning about XML and related technologies, and an excellent reference book you'll want to keep handy on your shelf."

Author:
Charles F. Goldfarb

Review

With its two high-profile authors, this XML guide promises to be the most authoritative on the market. Authors Goldfarb and Prescod communicate with nonexperts in a friendly, engaging style, making their book well suited to mark-up language beginners. They describe what a mark-up language is, what XML is, how it works, and its advantages to users of the World Wide Web.

Author:
Simon St.Laurent

Review

Simon St. Laurent's foray into XML is best described by an adjective not often used with computer books: charming. From its portable size to its playful code examples, XML: A Primer is an interesting and well-crafted read. Stylistic considerations aside, it is also a useful introduction for anyone who does considerable work in HTML or SGML.
St. Laurent explains the nuanced differences between XML and HTML, stating, "Using XML requires a different focus, demanding that designers examine the way that their documents are built rather than the way they are formatted." He later comments, "XML doesn't go nearly as far as SGML in requiring conformance to standards, but it may still come as a shock to HTML developers. XML standards refer to processors (parsers), not to browsers, because much XML development will be intended for machine-readable data applications rather than graphically exciting web pages."

If you are curious about the hype surrounding XML, ready for an XML book you can read cover to cover, and comfortable with lengthy code examples, XML: A Primer will offer you the knowledge you need to understand this emerging technology.

Author:
Simon St.Laurent

Book Description
XML Elements of Style contains a hihg-level look at the structures XML provides and how best to use them. Readers with a basic back grounding in XML syntax can build on that foundation, moving from being able to create XML of some kind of XML of a useful kind.

From the Back Cover
XMLs best-practices guide for creating expert, reusable, and highly flexible document structures

If you have a basic understanding of XML document creation and want to use XMLs powerful technology to create quality structured documents and DTDs, then XML Elements of Style Guide is the right place to learn more. It fills the void between introductory texts and high-level, complex SGML references to give you the tools and techniques youll need to intelligently apply XML to a variety of situations....