XML: Your Visual Blueprint for Building Expert Web Pages [With CDROM]

As with all of the visual blueprint book, this is a good reference for those new to XML. I found it easy to reference with. However if you need more explanation, then pick Microsoft step by step or SAMS 24 hours book.

This is one of the best books on XML. I bought the book 5 months ago with zero knowledge on XML, now, I'm an XML wizzard, got a raise of 7,000 over the last 3 months for my expertise with XML. This is a all-in-one XML book. It tells you step by step about XML, and it's all XML beginners need. A second best book on XML would be XML Bible, which is 1,300 pages. Would recommend reading the visual book first, then proceed to XML Bible to do some fancy stuff.

This book is wonderful, if you don't have a clue about all this new web-technologies popping up every day. I was totally lost buying book after book to learn XML (all with great reviews, very thick and boring). It was almost like learning an extraterrestrial language! This book is perfect to start building up your knowledge so you can understand the most complex books later on.Too bad I could just find this book going to a bookstore, examining it, since the reviews here were not very good.I hope that my review can help whoever is a beginner web-developer like me (not necessarily a beginner programmer).

I finally found a self-taught computer book that doesn't make me question my language comprehension ability. This book cuts to the chase and tells you what you really need to know, instead of long passages of history dating back to the Civil War, as often done by other publishers. Every chapter is done in two pages, and step-by-step screenshots of the programming steps are shown. Programming tips and potential errors are also stated clearly in a single sentence, instead of "nested" (a little programming joke ;-P)in another sentence. This book reads like a reference, yet it is informational enough. But if you expect explanation behind every coding, you'll hate me as your reviewer because this book is not comprehensive enough in that sense. The CD-Rom includes codes and examples and searchable e-book for your practice sessions. Aside from visual learners, I would definitely recommend this book to practical, on need-to-know basis learners and those who are not blessed with patience as their virtues. With all these new web standards coming up, who's got the time?