Review of ‘XML Handbook’

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TBR writes “Given the importance of structure in XML, and the fact that Charles Goldfarb was one of the fathers of it through his work with SGML, it’s a real surprise that this book is so poorly structured. It’s a great big sprawl of a book which lacks a coherent structure and ultimately proves to be a disappointment.

With 69 chapters organised into 24 sections, it would seem that just about everything XML ought to be covered. A quick glance at the table of contents would suggest that all is in order, most areas are covered, including XPath, XSL, XSLT, VoiceXML, EDI and a whole lot more. However, the coverage is patchy, with a lot of repetition and material stretched across different sections and chapters rather than handled in depth in one place.

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