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XML is one of the most exciting recent developments to hit the World Wide Web, enabling the further expansion of Web technology into new domains of content management, audience targetted presentation and distributed document processing. If you’re a current or potential XML user looking for just one reference to get you up to speed on XML with clarity, comprehensive coverage and precision, then this book will be your essential and constant companion.

Building on the success of the first edition of The XMLCompanion, Neil Bradley has updated this accessible, in-depth reference to release 1.0 of the XML standard to incorporate the results of the high degree of activity that has surrounded the standard since its release. This edition now contains the complementary standards that have been released, including detailed coverage of DOM 1.0, SAX 1.0, CSS 2 and NameSpaces 1.0, as well as describing the latest, most stable drafts of XSL & XSLT, Xlink & Xpointer.

The XML Companion:
• provides an accessible, comprehensive description of each XML feature
• does not assume experience of either HTML or SGML
• features a series of ‘Road Map’ charts that reveal the structure of the XML standard
• contains an extensive glossary of XML and related terminology
•provides up-to-date coverage of all complementary standards

New to this edition:
NEW – Detailed coverage of DOM 1.0, SAX 1.0, CSS 2 and NameSpaces 1.0
NEW – Describes latest drafts of XSL & XSLT, Xlink & XPointer
NEW – Covers recently proposed standards – XHTML and XML Catalog



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About the Author

Neil Bradley is an XML consultant with almost twenty years' practical experience in the field of mark-up languages. He is an experienced trainer, a regular speaker at industry events and contributes to specialist magazines and journals.



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5.0 out of 5 stars splendid introduction, Oct 12 2000
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This review is from: XML Companion, The (Paperback)
Particularly for the thoughtful reader who wants to understand the rationale behind the standards decisions- a level of understanding that makes the details much more meaningful and far easier to remember. I very much hope that Bradley will update his perspicacious elucidation of the xml specs (eg on schemas) as they continue to evolve. Easily my favorite among the dozen or so general xml books with which I am familiar.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Concise and Thorough, July 8 2000
This review is from: XML Companion, The (Paperback)
This is the book to read if you want to understand what XML is and why you should be interested in it.

Having looked at most XML books currently on the market, I like this one best because (1) it is short (2) it is authoritative (3) it is reasonably current (4) it talks about XML *and* all the related standards/proposals (XSL, XSLT, XPointer, XLink, etc) (5) it gives you the big picture and the details, but it never gets lost in the details.

*After* you read this book, you go ahead and buy a programming book for whatever platform you happen to be working on.

It is a common misunderstanding that introductory computer books have to be 1000+ pages long, must contain 50% code, and have to be written to the lowest common denominator. This book does not fall in this category; it is written for grown ups.

To summarize, this is the kind of book that usually gets published under the O'Reilly label.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Beginners beware!, April 5 2000
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This book has good coverage on a good deal regarding parsing of an xml document. But beyond that small part, this book provides the reader very little else, and does a terrible job in explaining the purpose and uses of XML. If you already know a great deal about XML this book could help, but even for that, it is by no mean thorough or comprehensive.
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