At least the cover's cool

Hmmm, how can I sum this up? Oh, how about...Crapity, crap, crap, crap.

What a waste of time. I got the book last year, thumbed through it and thought it was a solid book on the surface. Now that I'm actually using XML on the job, I can see this book is useless. I have the electronic CD version installed yet I have a bunch of MSDN printouts that are my main source of USEFUL information. BizTalk - who cares? SOAP - MSDN again. This book had ONE entry for getElementsByTagName from the MSXML DOM functions. And that one entry was just as part of a long blind list of all the DOM methods. Want a solid generic XML book? - maybe Wrox or Oriley. Want MS specific MSXML real world information? - use MSDN. I agree with another reader - I don't believe this author wrote a single real app before he started to write this book. I think with more practice the author could make a better product, but the whole book team failed on this one. I think the editors came from the BizTalk marketing group.

Other Reviews

• This is by far the worse book I ever read. REAL SHAME!
• Lack of direction; very dry and boring read.
• There has got to be a better XML book
• A very bad book!
• At least the cover's cool