Reviews for Xml: Learning by Example

1. *YAWN* --- What a waste of my hard earned cash!

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2008

   If mind numbing tech speak and pointless exercises are your thing then click on the "buy now with 1-Click" button right away! I have been battling my way through this tome of tedium but I am finding it increasingly difficult to stay awake through a complete chapter.
   
   The exercises in this book make no sense and one would think that a book claiming to teach by example would at least have a more consistent and interesting approach to exercises. Each one is named after the next available letter of the alphabet which results in much flipping back and forth to recall which pointless exercise the author is referring to. The explanations do not precede each exercise, nothing is explained in a logical order and the author assumes that all his readers are fluent in Acronym.
   
   On the plus side, I could always use this book as a substitute for sleeping tablets. It's not that difficult to make a book a liiiiiiiittle bit more interesting, enjoyable and memorable.
   
   
   this book is rubbish and boring
   rather buy some chocolates for your mum
   

2. A Godsend

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2003

   This book is a ready-to-go course. It is cheap enough to use on 2-day courses, but excellent for 4-6 week courses. Everything is in place and any teacher or instructor can easily deliver an excellent course with a minimum of preparation. An innovative teacher who can think up some more project work can easily use this book as basis for a 12-week (semester) course.

   I have been using this material for 2 semesters now and can really recommend it - why waste time developing your own stuff when this is available?

3. Excellent

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, February 12th, 2003

   This book covers XML tags, CSS1 and 2, the @media directive, XHTML, DOM, XMLNS, XPath, XLST, DTD, Schemas, XLink, XPointer and DSO. It even includes excercises on ASP, Java and UNIX. It explains XML really well and I was especially impressed by the excellent explanations concering the database nature of XML.

   The excercises are well thought out and include reading to and from databases, as well as storing and sorting database-type information in data islands, and presenting it using XSL.

4. An excellent book

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, November 12st, 2002

   This book has been adopted by us (and other colleges) because it is an excellent introduction to XML at the beginner level, for 1-credit courses. The book is well built up, pedagogically correct and at a price that suits the students pocket. It covers XML tags, CSS1 and 2, the @media directive, XHTML, DOM, XMLNS, XPath, XLST, DTD, Schemas, XLink, XPointer and DSO. It even touches ASP, Java and UNIX. Recommended for all teachers (and students).