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Title: The Official XMLSPY Handbook by Larry Kim ISBN: 0-7645-4964-2 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for learning XML and XMLSPY at the same time
Comment: When it comes to reference books for XML and related standards, the "Essential XML Quick Reference" by Aaron Skonnard, Martin Gudgin, et. al. (ISBN 0201740958), has been a favorite of mine for the longest time - but the lack of a good introductory book that teaches XML basics, XSLT, XML Schema, and even WSDL from the ground up was a continuous source of frustration for me.
But not anymore! With the "XMLSPY Handbook" Larry Kim has created just that: a comprehensive book that explains XML, Namespaces, XSLT, XPath, XML Schema, SOAP, and WSDL using a wide array of relevant examples - and at the same time uses these to introduce the various features of XMLSPY, one of the most popular XML development environments, which incidentally makes learning XML a lot easier.
The CD that comes with the book also includes a 90-day eval of the full-blown "bells and whistles" enterprise version of the software, which gives ample time to go through all the examples provided and try everything out yourself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interested in learning XML? I'd recommend this book.
Comment: This book shines light on the pillars of XML: XML, XSL, and XSD (schemas) with simple procedures to create and manipulate XML documents. The book is organized with each major technology in its own chapter, or basic and advanced features in 2 chapters (great for learning/mastering a particular aspect of XML, such as XSL stylesheets).
Respectfully, the flame comments about the wrong CD coming with the book seem irrelevant now -- the book now comes with all the exercises and an incredible 90-day trial version of XMLSPY (the normal download trial is for 30 days).
The information builds logically, walking you through simple examples to introduce the XML terminology, then adding nitty-gritty fine-level details demonstrating, in context, what would otherwise be abstract and complex terminology.
I enjoyed the casual, friendly writing style. There are asides about some features defined in the XML standard, but not used in the real world. Other times the author points out the way he generally does something. There are several quick procedures using the XMLSPY editor that would otherwise require repetitive or manual actions.
There's a chapter on WSDL. I haven't read it yet (loaned the book to a friend learning XML), but a local MSDN director raves about being able to edit and examine WSDL visually with XMLSPY.
THE BEST FEATURE of the book may well be the 90 day trial version of XMLSPY Enterprise Edition. The 3 months use of a $400/$500 program the CD gives you for the cost of this excellent instructional book!
NOTE: If you can read and write schemas by hand, you probably won't need all the info on XML terminology and simple examples, though you'd probably still benefit from how to do things with XMLSPY and the full 90 days to explore it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Useful but not a great book
Comment: I just finished this book cover to cover.
One should keep in mind while reviewing any literature on xmlspy, that there is a wealth of things one can do with this tool. And that it takes huge volumes to cover all those details.
Considering that this 326 page book has done a good job.
The book will definitely get you started.
Only the first 250 pages are useful. The chapters on WSDL, SOAP are too abstract to be of any use.
Also in the first 250 pages, the 2 chapters on XSTL are not done well. I was surprised to see a lot of dead code in the snippets printed.
I also came across a lot of printing errors.
Oh yeah the CD provided is for some dummies series XML book. The software was unusable.
So you are actually buying a book with around 150 pages. But I will still spend that money if I am given the opportunity to decide once again.
Hopefully there will be a revised 2nd edition.
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Title: XMLSPY 5 User & Reference Manual by Inc Altova, Inc. Altova ISBN: 097235591X Publisher: Vervante Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $89.00 |
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Title: Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More by Aaron Skonnard, Martin Gudgin ISBN: 0201740958 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: XSLT Cookbook by Sal Mangano ISBN: 0596003722 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Definitive XML Schema by Priscilla Walmsley ISBN: 0130655678 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 07 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: XSLT and XPath On The Edge, Unlimited Edition by Jeni Tennison ISBN: 0764547763 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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