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Title: A good introduction but professional developers beware.
Review: If you are looking for a good introduction to using XML with Java then this is as good as any other but over half the book uses third-party libraries which exist outside the standards (JDK, SAX and DOM) and therefore if you are writing code for commercial purposes this is not much use.What I wanted from the book was an explanation of issues such as using RMI and RPC to transfer XML data. What I got was whole chapters on using a library which might (but does not) achieve what I want. After an explanation of the SAX and DOM APIs the authors then introduce their alternative API which is then used through the book. At the same time the authors criticise Microsoft for not following the standards!!!In addition a number of O'Reilly books I have purchased in the last year suffer from poor binding quality; my copy of this has started falling apart within a week of purchase.
