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Title: Complete Idiot's Guide to XML (Complete Idiot's Guide) by David Gulbransen ISBN: 0789723115 Publisher: Alpha Communications Pub. Date: 18 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.22

Rating: 4
Summary: The Name Says it All
Comment: I found this book useful in getting started with XML, as it was the easiest to understand. It only covers XML and DTDs, not XSL, CSS, Xlink etc. Everything is spoon fed, and it assumes no programming knowledge. Still if you master the contents, you will have a reasonable basic knowledge of XML.

Rating: 1
Summary: world record for poor proof reading
Comment: I have never read a book so littered with mistakes. To a neophyte this book must be so confusing as to be totally useless. Can you believe the author gives three different renderings of the acronym SGML within a few pages of each other. Many absolutely critical points are muffed by the most banal and obvious proof reading errors. The final straw is the tear out reference card which can't even get the rules for XML names correct. Really, it's just too, too bad.

Rating: 4
Summary: good for nonprogrammers
Comment: This is an easy to read and understand guide to desigining and writing XML documents. It doesn't cover the programming half of the problem at all, not even mentioning popular XML parsers for various programming languages. So it's not complete for learning how to build systems that use XML. As befits a "Complete Idiot's Guide", it has a lot of redundancy. Maybe that's so you can understand what's going on no matter where you start in the book. There are some proofreading problems (wrong fonts, missing letters and punctuation, wrong words in examples) which suggest it was rushed out the door.

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