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XML Programming (Core Reference) Review by wangwei
Worse than ...
The authors apparently made too many assumptions on the readers. They freely used buzzwords without giving any proper definition, and they used half a dozen different terms for the same concept, even on the same page. Take a look at this excerpt in Chap-1:
The are two categories of XML documents. A document is either "well-formed" or "valid". A document can be well-formed only if it obeys the syntax of XML. A document that includes sequences of markup characters that cannot be parsed or are invalid cannot be well-formed.
What the heck is the "syntax of XML" and "sequences of markup characters"? what does "cannot be parsed" means?
The authors seem to be in a big hurry to give any explanation.
The book is also full of geekspeak and long, ornate marketing stuff that bores intermediate and advanced readers, yet confuses beginners.
Wanna buy the book? forget it. Even if some friend gives it you, don't waste your time on it.
I wish somebody had advised me beforehand.
I gave it 1-star, only because amazon has no option for a minus 5 star.