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Summary: Good Book
Review: This book with real working code samples saved the day for me when building an XML Loader. One drawback: It doesn't explain XSL real well which is crucial for transforming your XML document into the canonical <ROWSET><ROW> format so I really give it 4.5 stars.
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Summary: THE book for Oracle and XML
Review: This book with real working code samples saved the day for me when building an XML Loader. One drawback: It doesn't explain XSL real well which is crucial for transforming your XML document into the canonical <ROWSET><ROW> format so I really give it 4.5 stars.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is a great book for those who have knowledge of XML and Oracle, but aren't entirely sure of how to get the two of them together. Lots of excellent code samples and concise explanation of the technology. If you're ever going to do any work with Oracle and XML, don't look past this one.
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Summary: !!!!!!!!!!!! The Best XMl book I have ever read !!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is a must for every developer even just thinking about XML and Oracle. Excellent job !!!!! Superb!!!!! Keep up the good work Steve
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Summary: This is THE BEST book on XML
Review: This is an essential book for anyone working with Oracle and XML. There's no other book which comes close in these topics. The examples are clear and well-explained. Within the book Steve Muench develops a package of XML utilities which accompany the examples. These utilities are extremely useful in their own right, and are sure to become a standard part of your toolkit. Both Java and PL/SQL developers will find the book useful as Muench covers the examples from both angles. The coverage of the Oracle XSQL technology is unique. I highly recommend this book and have pointed more than a few developers towards it already. After reading just the opening chapters you'll be itching to get started using the Oracle XML tools on offer. A must have for any Oracle/XML developers bookshelf.
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Summary: Great Book for Integrating Oracle and XML
Review: This is an excellent book for developers wishing to use XML with Oracle and Java, C++, or PL/SQL. I agree with the other reviews posted here previously about the book's coverage and strengths. The one thing I would like to see more of in this book is coverage of Oracle's handling of XML Schema, since XML Schema appears to be the eventual replacement of DTDs. The book is great for beginners since the author starts the book and individual chapters with basics, but it is useful as a reference since the author handles many of the complexities that more experienced developers will eventually run into when using Oracle and XML together. The included CD-ROM does not include the fabulous examples (it features JDeveloper 3.1 for Windows/NT) in the book, but these examples can be downloaded from the O'Reilly site (referenced in book's preface, pg. xiii). While there are excellent chapters focusing primarily on XML, the real beneficiaries of this book are people who need to integrate XML with Oracle and a programming language such as Java. Not only has reading this book increased my knowledge about integrating Java, Oracle, and XML, but it has also provided me with working code that I can start using in my applications.
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Summary: One of the best Oracle books recently
Review: This is one of the best Oracle books I've read for the last 2-3 years. It combines the importance of the subject with the depth and clarity of presentation technique. For instance, Ch.5 can serve not only as XML with PL/SQL but also as a great source of the PL/SQL scripts and approaches. The author deserves very high marks for the job he's done. I wish I had more books like this.
Vad Roytman,
Oracle DBA
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Summary: The best book on XML/XSLT applications written so far...
Review: This is perhaps the best book on XML written so far. Stepping out from the stereotype model of writing a book in XML, the material provides deep insight into the Oracle XML capacities by providing real world examples and issues faced with reading/writing XML datagrams from databases through Oracle XML capacities and covers a wide gamut of issues (mostly performance) faced by application developers in using XML as the format for data exchange and solutions to counter most of these issues. The best part of the book are the chapters on XSLT and the numerous examples that shows the power of XSLT in rendering and transforming XML data. The book is highly recommended for both beginners and experienced programmers in XML(/Java). There is something for every level of reader interested in using XML for B2B applications.
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Summary: Nice, but out of date
Review: Unless you're still running 7 or 8i, I can't recommend this book. As another reviewer noted, Oracle has added a lot of XML features in 9i and 10g. The content itself is great -- the authors should consider a second edition that covers the current Oracle XML features.
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