Title: A vague introduction, easily beaten by the sketchiest source on the web
Product review: The book is written in a very boring English. The author tries to describe everything in text, whereas a simple example would have gone a long way.The examples are scarce inside the text. Well, at least "good examples" are... Whenever the author reaches the simple concepts such as parsed entities, he gives a couple of examples, but for more complicated ones such as unparsed, the examples are vague and trivial.The same goes for explaining the attributes: CDATA is explained thoroughly (as in all other resources available on the web), but ID, IDREF, NMTOKEN,... just mentioned in one line, without a single example. I had to spend a lot of time surfing the web to find some clear explanations.You could argue that he was trying to present a brief introduction. Well, that's not exactly true. He tries to touch everything, but in the least clear way possible.There are tons of better books on XML out there. Don't waste your time and money.
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