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Title: Includes 350 pages of advertiser essays
Review: I kept reading more of the book to see if it would get better. Unfortunately, it did not.Good points:--Part 1 offers a concise introduction to XML.--Part 5 offers a good, although wordy, treatment of XML definitions and usage.Bad Points:--Three sections (almost 350 pages) of superficial "case studies" (ads) sandwiched between Parts 1 and 5.-- Only in Chapter 33 is the Spec Reference Structure explained -- after over 400 pages of examples using this format-- Poor organization inhibits utility. The book is simply not structured in a logical manner which makes it difficult to understand a logical system like XML.
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