Essential XML for Web Professionals

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Summary: Best XML book out there
Review: This is my fifth XML book and it is absolutely, most definitely, the best one. XML itself is pretty simple, but all of the ways it can be defined and applied can be confusing. This book makes things like DTDs, XML Schema, XSLT, XPointer, XLink and more very easy to understand. The author starts with simple, but not idiotic, examples, and builds on them throughout the book. The author is clearly both a teacher and a programmer. His goal is not to create a book of filler (like lots of others out there), but its clear he sincerely wants you to learn all about XML.

I was truly impressed by both the content and the intelligence of the presentation of this book. Even if you have a bunch of XML books already, reading this one will fill in gaps in your knowledge that you didn't even know you had.