Clear, complete and well done book

The web was designed for people to read what was stored at a computer somewhere else. After the web was set up, it wasn't long before people wanted to extract information from one system to incorporate into their own web page.

For a quick example, go to www.books-on-line.com. At the upper left is a little box for you to enter an ISBN number. Put in a number and click on Get Prices. Then what happens is that the Books-On-Line web site goes to Amazon and gets up to the minute information and displays it back to you in a simple format.

As part of their ASP.NET design effort, Microsoft has added a new datatype called XML to their SQL Server database. This book is on using this new feature. It describes the data type. Talks about constraints, schemas, all the things you would expect. It then talks about the integrated features to facilitate the generation of XML code that can be sent out over the web.

XML is a major new concept in distributed computing. The book covers this aspect of the Microsoft approach and does so very well. It is complete and thorough and very well written.

Other Reviews

• Too many bugs in the codes.
• lazy edition
• examples and rest of book do not correlate.
• Clear, complete and well done book