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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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John Robert Gardner, Ph.D. **NOTE** As of July 12, please send mail to atman@v... I will have mail from this account forwarded, but atman@v... is always a permanent contact point. > > t > > -----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 > > *************************************************************************** > This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. > To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev > List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > *************************************************************************** > > *************************************************************************** > This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. > To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev > List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > *************************************************************************** > *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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