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XML in a Nutshellcomprehensive manual on extensible markup language This is probably most suitable for people who have a basic grounding in HTML and web design basics, but who want to pass beyond these limitations into a markup language which will make their documents more portable and adaptable.
Nevertheless, there is the usual thoroughness one associates with O'Reilly publications. The coverage is totally comprehensive, and all the data is displayed in an attractive and consistent format. One interesting topic they explain is the issue of character sets - that is, the alphabetic groups of different languages. There are full lists, showing the XML, hexadecimal, and the decimal manner of representing languages from Latin and Greek to Welsh, Hebrew, Coptic, and Arabic. It contains all the elements of the XML standard. Serious web developers will find topics ranging from the most basic syntax rules, to the details of document type definition (DTD) creation. For more advanced users, they also include details of Extensible Stylesheet Transformation (XSLT) and the document object model (DOM). © Roy Johnson 2001-02 [more WEB DESIGN books] Elliotte Rusty Harold & W. Scott Means, XML in a Nutshell, 3rd edition, Sebastopol CA, O'Reilly, 2002, pp.480, ISBN 0596002920
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