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Title: Not very helpful - save your money.
Review: I got this book to learn some basics of XML. I've been working with HTML and JavaScript for a few years now, even doing some hand-coding now and then. However, this book was just about useless to me after the first chapter. What is most disheartening is that the author is assuming the reader will be using some flavor of the Windows operating system and nothing else! Many of the examples just don't work if you are a user of any other platform. That would have been all right with me if the author had offered alternative cross-platform examples. It would have been okay even if the author and/or the editor had simply bothered to put the platform requirements somewhere in its description or elsewhere so that an individual can make an informed choice. Although less convenient, I know that I can find useful cross-platform XML tutorials on the web, for nothing! I could have saved my money had I known more about what I was buying.
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