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Book:		Learning XML
Subject:		Learning XML Review
Date:		2001-12-04 09:15:53
From:		Robert Patton

Rating: The book was fairly easy to read (from the perspective of someone who hasn't used XML before) and is handy as a reference. I read it before writing an XML-based B2B system, and it covered everything I needed to create the DTD's for the different transactions - though I had to look elsewhere for info on reading the XML files from Java. I'd like to see more info on schemas if there is another edition. I think the section about programming with XML is uneccesary, better left for other books that can address the subject in more detail. Another review mentioned the lack of thorough examples, I'd like to note that I appreciate that lack. Other XML books I skimmed were bloated with examples that I couldn't care less about. Learning XML had the right mix of info and examples, imho.