Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days

By Simon North

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is the slimmed-down, Web-enabled version of SGML. This text explains how to write Web page markup tags without the complexity of SGML. It covers document types,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575213966
• ISBN13: 9781575213965
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 580 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days

I think the book is a great challenge! It lets you find out the answers for yourself rather than just chewing them out. Everybody knows that the best way to learn something is to play with it and find out for yourself! I am surprised by the fact that a lot of the reviews are so negative. Don't these people think for themselves? The book is very helpfull and it did teach me a lot!!Marie Duchateau

Very Good Book

Very insigthful book. Covers almost everything I wanted to know about this exciting technology. Simon North and Paul Hermans did a great job. Higly recommended, especially for developers.

Pretty decent book

I needed a book that would give me a jump start on XML. Normally I am kind of apprehensive about the "Teach yourself Swalhili, Russian, Hungarian and Finnish in just 24 hours!!!" kind of books. I decided to buy it based on the reviews by other readers and it was a good decision. This book really gave me what I needed: a good induction into xml and all related areas and practical examples. However, to my taste the authors could have spent some more on DOM. That is why I rate this book 4 stars.

An Excellent XML book

I spent quite some time looking for a good XML book. This one is quite exactly what I was looking for. Simon North and Paul Hermans did a good job and made an exception to the "Teach Yourself ..." series.

A real Teach-Yourself book

I have reviewed many of "Sams Teach Yourself" series. I think Simon did a good job on covering the usefulness of XML without going through the huge SGML background check. Having three year's SGML programming practices, I still found several surprises and useful reference links in this book. Well, I have to admit that I failed to finish reading it in 21 "hours" which I normally did for these Teach Yourself books..... ;-)