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M Fitzgerald
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Pages: 368 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0596003277
Pub: OReilly
Pub date: 2003-12-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31584
Reader Reviews:
Better than it seems from the first few chapters. (1/1 people found this helpful)
This was required reading on my course last year. It's a fairly good introduction if you already have some familliarity with XML. Strangely in the first few chapters some simple concepts are presented in a quite confusing way. More complex examples later in the book are much easier to get to grips with. As the previous reviewer noted the examination of namespaces is superficial, unfortunate as this is an extremely important area. However, while not comprehensive enough to be a working reference it is a good beginning.
A clear reference and tutorial (13/13 people found this helpful)
I'm not a huge fan of O'Reilly books - I purchased this because it looked like the best of a bad bunch. To be fair, however, it is actually very good. The author explains things well enough and covers as much as one would need to know to reach an intermediate level with XSLT. It also provides information on versions other than 1.0 and the variety of XML/XSL processors out there.
Although this book provides a guide of sorts for XML, it does get complex at times and it's easy to become lost in a sea of jargon - so I would advise that if you haven't already got some experience or knowledge of XML, then you should get a good book on the subject (John Shelley's How to use XML is excellent).
The only fault I could attribute to this book is that the subject of namespaces, while present, is not covered in any great depth - but it's still a fine piece of work that I would recommend to anybody intending to be doing what it says on the cover.
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