XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition Review

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Book:		XML in a Nutshell
Subject:		XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition Review
Date:		2003-06-16 18:06:17
From:		Jon Hardin

Rating: I am not a web designer, but rather a computer programmer. This book is tremendously helpful for someone like me, as it does not stop at the level of, "How can we use this in a website?". Rather, it extends far deeper that this, exploring the uses of XML as a means for storing database information, and as a way of manufacturing a portable file structure that, with the right parser, is just as versatile as Adobe's PDF format is for printed documents. That said, this book will not teach you HTML, and some of the deeper sections, such as the chapters on schemas, APIs, DOMs, and database parsing assume knowledge of at least basic object-oriented programming, in a language like C++ or Java. If you are familiar with at least simple XML, as explained in Oreilly's "Learning XML", though, the book will prove an indespensible reference for working with XML in whatever project you may be using it for, be it web design, database construction, or anything else that you can dream up.