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Title: Too much fluff
Review: As a software developer and product designer, I was looking for a book on XML that could quickly give me an understanding of how XML works to allow me to ponder how I may apply it. I'm still looking. After a reasonably promising start (though a little too cute and rah-rah), there is a series of chapters that read like bad magazine articles geared toward managers. After a bit of puzzlement, I realized I needed to skip 400 pages ahead to get back to the explanation of how XML works! And in that section there are too many forward references to make reading comfortable. I have just ordered a second XML book. Wish me luck!
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