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RE: Best XML book?

  • From: John Robert Gardner <jrgardn@e...>
  • To: Tom Butcher <tom@w...>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:57:03 -0400 (EDT)

best xml books
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Tom Butcher wrote:

> 
> Wow this is a wealth of information.  Thanks to everyone who replied.  For
> the record, I'm looking for an in-depth text dedicated to XML and XSL only.
> I have been using XML for a few years in the field, but I want a good
> reference, like Stroustrup's _The C++ Programming Language_.

I still swear by the bread-n-butter of Goldfarb/Prescod, The XML Handbook,
from Prentice Hall with its rich bed of case studies, range of
applications covered, and recent up-to-date Second Edition.

jr

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 9:13 AM
> To: Tom Butcher; xml-dev@x...
> Subject: Re: Best XML book?
> 
> 
> At 08:22 AM 7/10/00 -0700, Tom Butcher wrote:
> >What's the consensus (if any) as to what the best, most complete book for
> >XML is?  I have  "XML: Design and Implementation", but I find it's not
> quite
> >suited for what I'm looking for.  Any recommendations?  Thanks
> 
> I think it depends very much on what you're looking for.  Everyone seems to
> have a different interpretation of "best, most complete".
> 
> For a top-level view, you might try "XML: A Manager's Guide", by Kevin Dick.
> 
> For a general introduction, I tend to recommend my own "XML: A Primer",
> Elliotte Rusty Harold's "XML Bible", and John Simpson's "Just XML" (2nd
> Edition coming in August, it seems).
> 
> If you want a detailed analysis of just XML 1.0 and Namespaces, try my "XML
> Elements of Style".
> 
> If you want the XML 1.0 specification marked up with explanations, try Bob
> DuCharme's "XML: The Annotated Specification" or Ian Graham and Liam Quin's
> "XML Specification Guide".
> 
> If you're document-oriented and/or have some SGML background, you might try
> David Megginson's "Structuring XML Documents" or Rick Jelliffe's "The XML
> and SGML Cookbook".
> 
> Java programmers seem quite happy with Brett McLaughlin's "Java and XML"
> and Benoit Marchal's "XML by Example".
> 
> For a general introduction, I tend to recommend my own "XML: A Primer",
> Elliotte Rusty Harold's "XML Bible", and John Simpson's "Just XML" (2nd
> Edition coming in August, it seems).  "XML for Dummies, 2nd Edition" is a
> good book - just make sure you get the SECOND edition and not the first.
> 
> For XSLT, Michael Kay's "XSLT Programmer's Reference" is excellent, and
> Tony Graham's "Unicode: A Primer" provides a great foundation for Unicode
> issues in XML and elsewhere.
> 
> (Yes, I've read all of the above except the "Manager's Guide", and "XML by
> Example", both of which I've perused in the store and will buy soon.  Books
> left off this list are quite probably because I haven't seen them.)
> 
> Simon St.Laurent
> XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
> http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books
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