Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours

by Charles Ashbacher and Michael Morrison

Learn the fundamental concepts of XML using practical, hands-on examples. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672319500
• ISBN13: 9780672319501
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Find the listings

Great book and I too was looking for those listings.Found them on sams webpage. Search for the author (ashbacher), you'll find one reference (to this book and its listings in the download section).

Good with room for improvement, especially typos.

After having bought a few of the 24 hours books I have learnt they are not all equal. This one I have found mostly easy to read, despite others comments. There are a number of typos, even in the code, which does cause some headaches. But smart reading will notice them, the code is pretty much repeated with minor changes in every chapter.Probably the biggest problem I encountered was at first the book demonstrated a long and painful JavaScript way of making sure an XML file was loaded properly. I had to change this to accomodate a failure to retry rather than just fail first time. Thankfully my JavaScript knowledge is advanced, knowing some JavaScript is definitely needed with this book. Later in the book this is dropped as code but the easier option is never mentioned of using the simple line "DataSource.async = false". I found this myself on the net somewhere.SAMS have no downloads for this book. All code must be typed in yourself. Searching on the ISBN results in nothing. Searching on the title results in only finding the second edition. And the downloaded files for this obviously don't even come close to matching.

Good for beginners

Teach yourself XML in 24 hours is a very good book for beginners.You can find the code given in the book at the site of Sams.The whole book can be completed in two or three days.I would recommand it to any one who wants to learn xml from scratch.

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This is a great book for a beginer who has HTML knowledge. This book explains XML,DTD, XSLT in a simplest manner. I liked it !

Good book for XML Beginers !!

This is a good book for a XML beginer who has HTML knowledge and wants to quickly have a headstart on XML. There are other good books available in the market but this one is good for beginers