No comments about ACORD XML Standards Spur E-Commerce.(eXtensible Markup Language): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management.

5 comments about Presenting Xml (Presenting).

1. I've only read 4 chapters so far on this book. But, it has been extremely painful! I will probably press on, but this is definitely snooze material!



2. The book has some good information for the new and novice user. Unfortunately, you have to filter through too much to get at them. On several occasions, I had a sense of deja vu because the author decided to repeat a concept covered multiple times earlier in the book.

   I don't consider it a total waste of money because I did complete it and feel I learned something. However, if you have some experience with HTML or XML, spend your money elsewhere.




3. Briefly: this book is dry, repetetive, and way too light on code samples that should help reinforce key concepts.

   Just walk right past this one.




4. Very badly organized and hard to follow writting styles. If you are technical enough, just go to w3 website to learn XML, because this book does not provide anything easier to understand (if not more confusing) than the pure specifications.



5. I felt this book is decent enough. ... But when I was reading "Java and XML" I find that Presenting XML provides more information on XML than the OReilly book. Ofcourse OReilly book is good on Java programming part. Things like enity references are well explained by Richar Light. Some of the initial chapters try to present a story of sorts which is .... But the following chapters get more technial. Overall concepts are presented in reasonable and simple to understand style rather than W3C's website's formal XML specification.

No comments about Database and XML Technologies: 5th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2007, Vienna, Austrial, September 23-24, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

4 comments about XML and SQL Server 2000.

1. In this book, John Griffin has provided a readable discussion of how to incorporate XML into your SQL Server 2000 applications. Starting with a gentle introduction to both XML and XSLT, John quickly moves into incorporating SQL Server 2000 into web applications, including discussion on Virtual Directories, executing SQL via HTTP, and Forms based queries. He then moves onto advanced topics like XDR Schemas and XPath, before concluding with chapters on FOR XML and OPEN XML, which are both important Microsoft extensions to SQL that are explicitly designed to improve the performance of SQL Server 2000 with XML.
   One of the only disappointments I had with this book was the neglect of Web Services, which I would expect would be a major reason for using XML with SQL Server 2000. This is not a major criticism, and might be addressed in later editions of the book. In any event, any serious SQL Server 2000 developer should take a look at this book.



2. XML And SQL Server 2000 provides an informative, comprehensive, invaluable discussion of SQL Server 2000's new time-saving, easy-to-use XML capabilities. Following a brief discussion on XSL/XSLT and DTD's, users will find hundreds of hands-on examples that can be utilized in day-to-day operations in such areas as IIS Directories, http, xml views and xml schemas, openxml, and much more.



3. I haven't finished reading this yet but I just had to put it down real quick so I could tell eveyone how useful this book is. I'll warn you up front, you have to take the time to read this - it is packed with information. The XSLT chapter goes into great detail and takes the confusion surrounding this topic and blows it away. The rest are very informative, too. This book is far better than the Henderson/Soukup Guru's guide. Buy this one and you won't need anything else.



4. Based on the average review scores this book got, I decided to acquire an electronic copy of it through DevX's online bookshelf. After reading this book, I feel cheated. You see, at about the middle point of my reading, I wanted to look up SQL Server 2000's Books Online (BOL) - which comes free with SQL Server install - for details of a certain item. Lo and behold, most of the examples and text in this book closely resembles the BOL's "XML and Internet Support" section. In fact, a lot of the content is almost verbatum copy. In order to make the book look different from the BOL, the author seemed to shuffle the content a little bit and tried to describe the technical points from a different approach than BOL. But he apparently did not do a good job of it. After going through this book, I still feel not clear on a lot of the technical details. So I went back to the BOL and got my questions answered there. It seemed to me that the author manufactured - I don't want to use the word WROTE - the book just to make some quick money. The only merit I'm willing to give this book is its chapters that summarize XSLT and XDR Schema.

No comments about DataPower Technology delivers world's fastest XML Web Services Security Gateway.(DataPower XS40 XML Security Gateway): An article from: EDP Weekly's IT Monitor.

No comments about XML.NET Developer's Guide.

1 comments about Sgml Buyer's Guide: A Unique Guide to Determining Your Requirements and Choosing the Right Sgml and Xml Products and Services (Charles F Goldfarb Series on Open Information Management).

1. Goldfarb, the inventor of SGML, and two other experts present the HARP Analysis methodology for assessing publication operations in an intuitive visual way. The software and HARP materials on the CD-ROM is good for analyzing the diagrams many common publishing scenarios, including book publishing, proposal preparation, documentation, and electronic publishing. The guide also contains descriptions of some 150 SGML and XML tools, services, and vendors, as well as an unabashedly subjective sponsor showcase.

No comments about Advances in XML Information Retrieval: Third International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2004, Dagstuhl Castle, ... 2004 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

No comments about XML Data Warehousing: Modeling, Design and Analysis.

No comments about XML: Opportunities, Pitfalls & Areas to Watch (Inside the Minds series).