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I started with the first edition and bought also its 2nd edition. It is a great book to start with, whether you a beginer to XML or you are already an XML developer. If you have some programming background, this will speed up your process to take on all XML related techologies.

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O'ReillyLearning XML, Second Editionby Erik T. RaySecond Edition September 2003ISBN: 0-596-00420-6416 pages, [$] USFor the longest time, I had heard about XML and all it could do, but never what it was. I had many misconceptions about what it did and how it worked. My little head thought that for all of the hype, it must be some super complex programming language, not something as simple as a formatted document looking very similar to HTML. When I finally figured out what XML was, I started looking online at the various sources that attempted to explain what XML was, but then they got into XPaths, XSLT, SAX and DOM, but with little to no explainations. I almost gave up on XML because I figured out how to form an XML document, but how the heck was I to get that information and make it useful? Enter O'Reilly's Learning XML. In very clear, organized language (a common trait of almost all O'Reilly books) XML and all of it's basics were laid out before me. XSLT, XPath, XPointer, Schemas and more are all covered. The first three chapters are probably the most important to read straight through because they give you the basics of XML structure. Each subsequent chapter is organized so that you can reference them as needed to do what you need to do. The book assumes that you know nothing of XML and builds from there at a good pace. It wasn't so slow that I got bored, nor was it so fast that I felt lost.Learning XML, Second Edition met my needs for successfully teaching me the fundamentals of XML in a non-language/platform specific manner. I would recommend to anyone with little or no knowledge of XML. From reading this book, I now feel confident incorporating XML into some of my future projects.

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An excellent guide for gaining an understanding of the fundamental concepts that comprise XML. I have been implementing XML for several years (SVG, XHTML, even creating custom schemas), but did not realize how incomplete my knowledge of related concepts (particularly DTDs, XSL, and XSL-FO) truly was until I found this book. The detailed information on creating new document types via DTDs, XML schemas, RELAX NG, and Schematron (and the differences between them) is vital for those seeking to expand the horizons of their document systems, while the guides to using XPath and XPointer apply to anyone referring to one document from another. Learning XML is a must-read for novices and veteran implementors alike.

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Nice book but where have the online examples/code gone?