Dare Obasanjo - What is the best place to learn about XML?

Posted: Apr 20, 2004 at 12:26 PM

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Dare, who is a program manager on the XML team, recommends visiting
MSDN's XML Dev Center to learn more about XML. How about you? What are the best places to learn about XML (and subsets like RSS)?

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jkirwan carpe fermentum

Apr 20, 2004 at 1:25 PM

Essential XML (Box, Skonnard, and Lam) has to be my favorite XML book. We used to call it the "Gay Porn XML Book" because of the cover art.
caspre

Apr 20, 2004 at 5:48 PM

Here is a great RSS page:

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss

Don't bother with RSS 0.91 or 0.92.
Cronan Ivan the Terrible

Apr 21, 2004 at 5:43 AM

Have you seen the Amazon reviews lately for the Don Box book? They suck big-time.
lars

Apr 21, 2004 at 7:03 AM

Don't put too much faith in the Amazon reviews. A recent bug on their site revealed extensive cheating with Authors writing good reviews for their own books and bad for their competitors.

I also read the reviews on Amazon before ordering new books, so I don't think they are totally irrelevant. You just have to read them with sceptical mode turned on.
Cronan Ivan the Terrible

Apr 22, 2004 at 5:34 AM

I agree. So I tested it out. I visited Waterstone's (UK book store) today at lunch. Found Don's book. Paged through the schemas chapter (as suggested by an Amazon reviewer). Dense. Unreadable. Turgid.

Not a book I am going to buy.

Let me know what you think.