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3 comments about Open Source XML Database Toolkit: Resources and Techniques for Improved Development.

1. This book is not an application development guide. But it mentions about some *open source* tools and covers some API available in Perl, Java and C towards the end of the book. And the rest of the book is filled with descriptions of other open source tools, not completely irrelevant, but probably you were not looking for and distracting.

   If you are just looking for some description of tools or guide to use tools available, I suggest just you spend the time the web and you get lot more useful information than presented in this book.

   Even when the author talked about XML Databases, he is mostly interested in Document Management not the data. He did not do justice to the data that can be presented/stored in XML/Database.




2. This book has some useful information, though it suffers from lack of editing. I thought that a draft copy accidently went to press when I started reading this. Many of the errors in this book are typos, but some of the errors have more to do with presentation and may confuse the reader about the topic.

   Open Source XML Database Toolkit does have useful information. Its strength is that it is geared to help readers understand how XML, DBMSs, and all the middleware fit together.

   XML and other computer markup and languages use esoteric symbols and naming devices; it is crucial that technical books about these topics get them right consistently. This book doesn't do that, which is why I have given it 2/5 stars. Informative (thus far in my reading), but -3 for poor editing.




3. The book doesn't claim to be an application development guide, nor is it a database API reference. The world of open source software is changing very rapidly, too, so rather than write about items that would soon be out of date, I tried to focus on techniques and strategies. It's a very broad field, and this is an interdisciplinary book, talking about document management as well as about delivering relational information as XML. It doesn't cover XSLT, nor libxml, but in 432 pages I couldn't have done justice to XSLT, and there have been two released of libxml since publication. So instead, you'll find out about using SAX from C and Perl, and learn enough XML, SQL and network programming to get by, and maybe have some fun along the way.

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5 comments about Using XML: Special Edition (with CD-ROM).

1. The author seems to know her staff pretty darn good but I think she doesn't know her audience. I am not a "computer geek" by any stretch of the imagination but I do code a lot and I purchase and read a lot of computer programming books. This is the first one I have read and didn't understand. There are no examples its all just theory. I read up to the the 150th page and still couldn't write a 6 line XML document. She talks about "well formed" documents, DTD's etc and doesn't show you what they look like. It was until I read another book, that I actually new what XML was all about and I could write somewhat sophisticated xml documents.

   I certainly think this book is good for some people but it just didn't do it for me. So next time Lee Ann, when you write your book put a "for computer geeks only" sign in front to let us know not to touch it. There are three audiences for computer books: 1. Beginners ...2. Intermediate ...3. Professional ...Just pick one and and stick to it.




2. This book uses far too much theory and virtually no examples for clarification. I had hoped for a book that would give me something to *do* with XML. There has to be somthing better. Don't waste your time with this one.



3. I don't even know how they can pass this off as a reference book, since the index is so incredibly bad. There was ONE page listed for the ELEMENT definition, and that page had nothing to do with what it is or how to write one.

   I can imagine, based on the MEANDERING style of writing, what this author is like when she talks - interrupting herself over and over again, until it is forgotten what the conversation was about.

   I'll never buy a book from this publisher again, since obviously the editors never read it OR they DID read it , and weren't technical enough to know that it was garbage.

   Glad I only paid three bucks.




4. I bought five XML books, and have discarded some. I thought twice before buying this one, and still bought a used book This is the first book that explains in plain English the fundamentals and foundations of XML, Document Type Declarations (DOCTYPE), Document Type Definitions (DTD), and other related technologies. So far, I've only read the first seven chapters, which gives me enough material to understand the underlying principles of XML. It's true, you have to do a lot of reading, but it's rewarding. This is not a tutorial book (for that you may need a more basic Step-By-Step book) This is for Intermediate-advanced level XML users. Five stars for Ms. Lee Anne Phillips.



5. I'm an IT professional and I don't use XML in my work. I just wanted to find what XML is about. So I decided to buy a book. It happened that I chose this one. And I didn't like it.

   First of all, the author writes a lot, but says few things. This becomes annoying. Then, another thing that I didn't like is that, after reading 150 pages, I couldn't tell anyone what XML was about. I had to go to www.w3c.org, spend some time reading some XML specifications and then come back the to the book. Only after I did this, the book made sense to me... But I bought the book in order to avoid reading the W3C specifications. I wanted something "lighter" than the standards...

   Probably the book has some good things, but I don't want to mention them here because I am too affected by the weakness of this book.

   My advice: if you want to read a book about XML, try another one!

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