Title: Not That Helpful
Product review: The book has a few good practical suggestions for XML, like "Now Throw the DTD Away." However, the bulk of the 900 pages contain a rather roughly written overview of XML that is not helpful to the student trying to master XML for some productive use. The various programs on the included disk are likewise not very helpful, which may indicate that the main problem is with the current state of the subject matter. XML is receiving a tremendous amount of hype over an undeveloped and time-consuming variation of SGML, a complex mark-up language that has existing for more than a decade without revolutionizing anything.
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