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

Posted By: scobleizer | Apr 20th, 2004 @ 12:26 PM | 28,670 Views | 5 Comments

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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#Apr 20th, 2004 @ 1:25 PM
jkirwan
jkirwan
carpe fermentum
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. Smiley
#Apr 20th, 2004 @ 5:48 PM
caspre
caspre

Here is a great RSS page:

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

Don't bother with RSS 0.91 or 0.92.

#Apr 21st, 2004 @ 5:43 AM
Cronan
Cronan
Ivan the Terrible
Have you seen the Amazon reviews lately for the Don Box book? They suck  big-time.
#Apr 21st, 2004 @ 7:03 AM
lars
lars
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.
#Apr 22nd, 2004 @ 5:34 AM
Cronan
Cronan
Ivan the Terrible
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.
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