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Review title: Good coverage of XML with a usable parser
Product review: Good coverage of XML with a usable parser ...... however, you are left the problem "why did I just learn all this stuff". It goes into great depths showing you how to traverse through XML, but it never tells you why you would want to do it. It certainly never connects the the XML applications with a .NET web service. After going into great detail showing you how you write a schemea, it all turns out to be pointless because you don't actually need to use one for a .NET Web Service (which is what I thought the book was all about). Similarly the subject of WSDL is covered in great detail - why go to this depth and never explain why. It mentions the passing of credentials as a SOAP header on page 316 and the book ends on page 327.This book is a Microsoft reference lift turned into a book with a scabby example of a "real-life" example. Forget this book and by the Microsoft Developing XML Web Serices and Server Solutions.
