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Review title: Not a very good book
Product review: I think the author does not need to go into parsing and EBNF to explain a simple idea as XML. There are too many chapters wasted on irrelevant material and a lengthy appendix. The book lacks a good chapter on XML and DTDs. I found the one XML chapter in the Java Server Programming book more useful than this entire book.
