xml-dev - RE: Best XML book?

[Tom Butcher <tom@whatuwant.net>]

Wow this is a wealth of information.  Thanks to everyone who replied.  For
the record, I'm looking for an in-depth text dedicated to XML and XSL only.
I have been using XML for a few years in the field, but I want a good
reference, like Stroustrup's _The C++ Programming Language_.

t

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 9:13 AM
To: Tom Butcher; xml-dev@xml.org
Subject: Re: Best XML book?


At 08:22 AM 7/10/00 -0700, Tom Butcher wrote:
>What's the consensus (if any) as to what the best, most complete book for
>XML is?  I have  "XML: Design and Implementation", but I find it's not
quite
>suited for what I'm looking for.  Any recommendations?  Thanks

I think it depends very much on what you're looking for.  Everyone seems to
have a different interpretation of "best, most complete".

For a top-level view, you might try "XML: A Manager's Guide", by Kevin Dick.

For a general introduction, I tend to recommend my own "XML: A Primer",
Elliotte Rusty Harold's "XML Bible", and John Simpson's "Just XML" (2nd
Edition coming in August, it seems).

If you want a detailed analysis of just XML 1.0 and Namespaces, try my "XML
Elements of Style".

If you want the XML 1.0 specification marked up with explanations, try Bob
DuCharme's "XML: The Annotated Specification" or Ian Graham and Liam Quin's
"XML Specification Guide".

If you're document-oriented and/or have some SGML background, you might try
David Megginson's "Structuring XML Documents" or Rick Jelliffe's "The XML
and SGML Cookbook".

Java programmers seem quite happy with Brett McLaughlin's "Java and XML"
and Benoit Marchal's "XML by Example".

For a general introduction, I tend to recommend my own "XML: A Primer",
Elliotte Rusty Harold's "XML Bible", and John Simpson's "Just XML" (2nd
Edition coming in August, it seems).  "XML for Dummies, 2nd Edition" is a
good book - just make sure you get the SECOND edition and not the first.

For XSLT, Michael Kay's "XSLT Programmer's Reference" is excellent, and
Tony Graham's "Unicode: A Primer" provides a great foundation for Unicode
issues in XML and elsewhere.

(Yes, I've read all of the above except the "Manager's Guide", and "XML by
Example", both of which I've perused in the store and will buy soon.  Books
left off this list are quite probably because I haven't seen them.)

Simon St.Laurent
XML Elements of Style / XML: A Primer, 2nd Ed.
http://www.simonstl.com - XML essays and books

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