Designing XML Internet Applications

by David R. Lewis and Michael Leventhal

Once web sites have been recoded in XML, web programmers need to create applications that take advantage of the additional functionality that XML offers. This book guides programmers through how to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136168221
• ISBN13: 9780136168225
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Ptr
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 2.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Spacefiller without any real focus

This is obviously a book where the authors commited themselves to writing a certain number of pages and then, half-way into the work they realized that didn't have enought material to cover it. The totally useless 100-page poorly-commented pre-release Java source code for a DOM-implementation in chapter 10 is a particularily good example of this.Another horrible chapter is chapter 11, which contains an explataion of user interface interaction that is so overly abstract but still so extremely stupid that I've used that particular chapter as an example of how a really useless book should be written.Also, early in the book the author explains that the book is amed towards rpogrammers. It's interesting to see that they hardly ever back their examples up with and source code at all.In short. Don't buy this book.

I have learned so much from this book.

Designing XML Internet Applications is a worthwhile aquisition, providing a great introduction to XML within a read world environment, yet within a historical context, which I found quite fascinating.It's chapters are humorous and informative when read through in full, and yet, I'm usually using it to find quick syntax info when I need it.Its index in the back could be better, but luckily the book itself is structured very well and it has an awesome Table of Contents, which I found myself using like an index (which I didn't mind, once I got used to it).I have not had a chance to really check out the CD -- but I have been literally carrying this book around with me ever since I bought it and I have found it quite useful.