Well written for the XForms author

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Book:		XForms Essentials
Subject:		Well written for the XForms author
Date:		2004-04-06 08:14:20
From:		Doug D

Rating: The book is well written and organized by one of the authors of the W3C XForms specification itself. The intended audience is the technical person who needs to author XForms at the tag level. Knowledge of XML is very helpful. It's not formatted as a reference manual, but contains enough reference material to get by. Organization is good so that one doesn't need to extensively search through the whole book. An index and decent TOC is included. It is also not a cookbook. Brief examples are provided as illustrations, not as complete working solutions. Related technologies (i.e., XPath, XML Schema and CSS) are covered so that the reader doesn't need to turn to another book or online reference. Throughout the book, common traps and pitfalls clearly appear on the page. My favorite chapter is chapter 10 that includes 20 pages of design patterns and troubleshooting ideas. When learning a new technology, it is very helpful to see how it is intended to be used and what common problems to avoid. It saves many hours of frustration.