Title: Impractical
Product review: I am a Visual Basic programmer who wanted to learn XML. This book started out with history, goals, and the future of XML that took around 50 pages. Then it proceeded with theory that did not stop until the end. For example, it does not tell you how to display an XML document until Chapter 10, and that's 200 pages of boring, useless reading. And when it tells you how to display a document, it does so only theoretically. After quitting reading the book (appx. Chapter 7), I decided to load the sample XML documents from the CD and try to understand them without the book. I was able to learn more with just trial and error in 30 minutes than I was able with this book in 150 pages.In short, if you want to learn the theory of XML you might like this book, however if you need to learn XML to actually use it, look somewhere else.
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