XML For Dummies Quick Reference

By Mariva H. Aviram

Find out how XML picks up where HTML leaves off--customize tags and create your own markup languages to fit your specific needs. With XML, users can better express data like catalogs, patient records, appointments and purchase orders, in a structured, consistent manner across different systems and browsers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764503839
• ISBN13: 9780764503832
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.4" x 0.6" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

It's great to have around!

I disagree: this book is very useful. Of course, I have several, more comprehensive XML references, but this is a lightweight companion to the heavier books, and I use it all the time to look things up quickly. Unless you've completely memorized XML (have you?), it can be very convenient. It's like an abridged dictionary.

Well-worth the small price.

This book is worth buying for the step-by-step instructions on how to write any type of DTD alone. The descriptions and examples of attributes, elements, entities, and character entities are useful as well. I was surprised to see a fair amount of space devoted to XML developments, such as with Java, Perl, style sheets, and more--but it's there. I recommend this quick reference as a starter or a companion to some of the larger XML books on the market.

Can't live without it!

I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs a good technical reference for XML, although anyone who is still learning XML will probably find this book useful as well. I was pleasantly surprised to find everything I needed for my project within this small book: the syntax of composing a DTD, declarations for all the elements and entities I was looking for, and tons of examples. The other books I looked at provide a lot of historical information, which I don't find useful and don't have time to read. If you remove all that and just keep the stuff you can use, you get this book.

This book has saved my rear-end!

This book is an excellent source of information packed into a small, convenient package. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a solid reference to XML without having to slog through pages of background information and long-winded explanations.