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| Book: | Java and XML | |
| Subject: | Java and XML Review | |
| Date: | 2000-12-20 09:58:58 | |
| From: | Dave | |
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Rating:
 
It's been a while since I read this book, but I saw this review forum and figured I should share my experience with this book. Overall I am usually impressed with O'Reilly books, but this one was distinctly poor. This book had numerous editing problems (seems like they rushed this one to press) and a weird continuity to it. It just didn't flow nicely at all. But I think my biggest complaint would be that I found way too much info on the simple things that I either already new, or had no trouble understanding (this book was excessively verbose IMHO) and not enough on the topics that are more advanced, and more useful for programers. I don't think we really needed to see a chapter on xml configuration files! One good thing is JDOM, but that doesn't make up for the book''s poor quality. I would have liked to have seen more on newer changing topics, despite the fact they are changing frequently, ones like XPath, XPointer, more on XSLT, and XML Schema. I could go on, but I won't =) |
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