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• Subject: RE: Any Good Reference Book on XML & XSLT
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 17 Jan 2002 15:15:43 -0500
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Between my work as a writer and my work as an editor, I have too many
books to recommend.

My overall advice on XML books is pretty simple, though: go to a
bookstore and look through a few.  

Even XML books with similar titles and tables of contents often appeal
to different audiences, and the document/data, Microsoft/not-Microsoft,
Web/Web Services divides often mean that a book which is great for one
person is awful for another person.  Writing style matters as well.

Amazon reviews are helpful up to a point, but there are some serious
limits.  Some of my favorite books have mostly 1- and 5-star reviews,
while others have very few reviews.  Amazon's new "look inside" feature
can be helpful as well, if they're the right pages.
 
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets
Errors, errors, all fall down!
http://simonstl.com

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