Markup Languages Books

For someone that never touched HTML in their life this book was pretty easy to learn from. They carefully explained each lesson step by step. the Disk helped a lot too. It really was great....

Show you how to apply XML in various scenarios. All scenarios are made simple with very good example. Obviously this is a not a reference book for the technologies mentioned. But to start up with those XML technologies mentioned this one is great book. You will able to quickly go through all chapters. I started with the free chapters available in their web site and decide to try other chapters.
Obviously this not expert's voice but a very good beginners tutorials with excellent example. Again I liked their examples a lot as it is easier to understand.
Note - It is not like Wrox books usually with too verbose in theory or too complex examples

This book is very useful for any library and information science professional involved in the "new web", that is, the web of XML.

Goldfarb, the inventor of SGML, and two other experts present the HARP Analysis methodology for assessing publication operations in an intuitive visual way. The software and HARP materials on the CD-ROM is good for analyzing the diagrams many common publishing scenarios, including book publishing, proposal preparation, documentation, and electronic publishing. The guide also contains descriptions of some 150 SGML and XML tools, services, and vendors, as well as an unabashedly subjective sponsor showcase.

...several years ago. It is a reasonably slow introduction, so the concepts have time to sink in. (I did not try to learn it in a week, though.) Now Microsoft prefers that you use FrontPage for this purpose, but the Word Internet Assistant is still useful if you don't like FrontPage (like me).

If you are analysing various XML-encoded data, and am overwhelmed with the sheer mass of it all, you have probably wondered about displaying it. The problem is that there are an infinite number of ways to display data.

This book can only describe a small, finite number of display ideas. But it may well be worth your while to at least quickly thumb through the chapters. Various authors offer different takes on their data sets. The book also has some nice colour plates showing results.

In the book's title, you can ignore Semantic Web if you so choose. The key thing is supposedly that you have XML data. But it turns out that even this is not a necessary restriction. One way to read this book is to look for different data visualisation ideas. If you find one that is promising, you then have to reimplement it for your data structures.

If you are a web developer, this book is good for you. Author did excellent job. I like tis book for my skills development.

If you already have a background in HTML and JavaScript then you are ready for this text. The author does a nice job of introducing the concepts behind Dynamic HTML. Usually this type of book would be enormous because the subject is complex (see the O'Reilly text for a really big book on this subject). This book, however, covers the most common things you can do with Dynamic HTML without going overboard on the details. The book is also fun to read and, most importantly, there isn't a single error in any of the code listings when run on a modern browser. Not many books can make that claim these days.

This is a nice brief introductory overview of xml in general and its implementations in biological research. The thing I liked about it was it was not too intensive on any topic, and it provided a lot of useful resources both online and literature-wise for me to look up for more information.

It definitely sparked my interest in certain areas of xml and how I may apply it towards my research. One of the things that I really liked was that the author always spelled out all the mentioned acronyms (thank you, finally someone exists out there that does this!). In addition, I also appreciated that the author did not get too bogged down in anyone topic resulting in a bible-like introductory work - thank you again for that. As a result of this I was literally able to read it in few days and determine the usefulness of this technology called `xml`; and without having to read 1k pages to determine this. In this case 'Less is sometimes definitely more'.

My favorite chapter was the one covering Web Services and now understand the basic concepts behind XML-RPC, REST, and SOAP.
The only reason I give it 4 stars is a.)its pricey for a grad student and b.)I use Perl, and he has a two or so chapters using Java to parse xml. So those chapters were not useful to me. But hey you can't please everyone :)

Overall, it helped me recognize just what xml is, how it may be used, who uses it (esp. in biology) - and how they use it, and a list of references for more info. Definitely a good little book to check out for basic conceptual understanding. I want to say its almost a survey, but its actually a little more than that.

(Four stars to me means "very good".)

This book is a pretty good primer on XML. I bought it to learn about XML Schemas (XSDs) and XML Transformations (XSLTs). I read about two-thirds of the book thoroughly, and haven't read any other XML books closely yet.

The author's tone and pace are great. The back of the book says that the author is an experienced trainer, and it shows in the book. I have seen many a technical book that talks down to its audience, and this isn't one of them. If you're actually learning the subject and not just browsing, you won't be skimming through pages of fluff. The book doesn't assume that you've read three other books covering the subject already, or assume that you have a Master's in Comp Sci. (Personally I hate it when technical books use words like "orthogonal" or "reify".)

The book's coverage is remarkably broad. The author doesn't seem to have any bias towards any particular language or OS, and presents his examples in every language you're likely to want to use. There are primer-style review questions and exercises at the end of each chapter, and they are actually useful.

One of the ways that this book stands out is that the author talks about up-to-the-minute technologies including data binding and web services, and technologies that are not yet mainstream, such as XLink and XForms. Considering that most technical books are out of date by the time they are published, this is a remarkable achievement, especially for a book of about 1,000 pages.

A couple shortcomings -- the example files aren't available online as of this writing, and I wish that the XSL Transformations chapter more explicitly described how the processor processes a template in step-by-step fashion. It took me a couple readings to get the idea, but I bet that happens with every book that covers XSL Transformations.