Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN num: 9781861003324
ISBN number: 1861003323
Label: Peer Information Ltd.
Manufacturer: Peer Information Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 725
Printing Date: 2000-03
Publishing house: Peer Information Ltd.
Sale Popularity Level: 879697
Studio: Peer Information Ltd.
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Professional Visual Basic 6 XML teaches XML theory and application for VB programmers with no previous XML experience. Following a complete introduction to XML concepts and syntax, you'll quickly discover where and how you can take advantage of XML in your own applications, and how to create new and innovative applications that use XML to achieve powerful results.
The open, extensible and self-describing nature of XML makes it ideal for any situation where complex data is passed from one application or tier to another, or where data needs to be stored in a custom XML format. As a VB programmer you will quickly learn how to integrate XML with VB in a distributed object architecture. This includes storing and retrieving XML from a SQL Server database using a VB front-end, implementing XML linking using a VB component, and the integration of XML and VB applications in a SOAP/BizTalk/Oasis environment. You'll learn how to write your own XML editor in VB and how to transform XML documents to and from HTML and other text formats, including MS Word.
Professional Visual Basic 6 XML is ideal for any VB programmer who wants to learn how to take advantage of XML technology and the available (free-to-use) implementations.
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Even though XML is still very much a standard in motion, it is nevertheless freely available for implementation today. Professional Visual Basic 6 XML explains the basics of XML and illustrates how to use the most popular development language, Visual Basic, to drive full-featured XML applications.
This book introduces XML concepts using step-by-step code examples. Don't skip past the very first part, since its descriptions of XML basics build a foundation for the rest of the book. An up-to-date snapshot of where the various pieces of the XML puzzle stand in the standardization process, and where the technology is likely to head, greatly aids the reader in understanding the discusion about schemas. For example, it's probably not a good idea to learn the syntax of the XML Schema, because the standard is still quickly evolving.
The discusion of the Document Object Model, the programming tool for manipulating XML data structures, is excellent, with code examples that turn XML concepts into reality with useful VB utilities for controlling XML trees. As the book progresses, the reader will be directed to build an XML editor and explore distributed objects, data transformation, and much more. All of the sample application code is available from the publisher's Web site. --Stephen W. Plain
Topics covered: - XML
- DTDs
- MS Schemas and XML Schemas
- Document Object Model
- XML Queries
- XSLT
- XPath
- XPointer
- XLink
- Simple API for XML (SAX)
- SOAP
- XML data manipulation
- Distributed objects
- Data transformation
- Microsoft Word-to-XML conversion
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Although Microsoft has moved on to VB.net, many developers are still using VB6. It has become increasingly hard to find VB6 XML info on, say, MSDN, so a book like this is essential.
The code examples are clear and practical. The book manages to work well both as a how-to and a reference. If I were to nitpick, there are two things would mention. First, because of when the book was published, it does not cover the most currenrt version MSXML. However, porting the code samples to newer versions of the DLL is quite easy. Second, the book does not come with a CD. An HTML or PDF version of the book, with a searchable index, would be sweet.
Overalll, though, this is a good deal if, like so many, you are still working with VB6.
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I purchased this book to learn to do DOM programming, not to use the code provided by the authors. I was hoping for clear examples, instead I got a book that expects me to download their sample code or type it all in (and there is ALOT) in order to easily follow the samples. Typically this would be fine, but a majority of the functions and classes you can download are poorly explained, or not explained at all. This book is more like instructions on how to use a lot of code written by the authors to manipulate XML.
I own two other WROX books, these book were easy to follow and gave just the right amount of code to get me going. This book does neither. Big disappointment.
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The following is a sentence from page 131 paragraph 1 of this book: "After declaring a generic Node object to serve as the parent node for the new node, and a variable to hold our function response, which we optimistically set to True - which will be changed if our endeavor at adding the node fails, we check to see if the node index is within bounds, using IsNodeIndexOK, described just after this function."
The logical flow to the entire book in not much better.
This makes learning anything about XML and VB difficult. I have spent more time attempting to determine what the authors are tring to say than I have learning about XML.
I was able to work with the sample code to some extent. But even the sample code was incomplete and more difficult to follow than necessary.
With a complete rewrite this could possibly be a good book.
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This is has been a disappointment for me. I purchased this book because of a project I am working on. It told me everything I already know and gave terribly laid out examples.
I was never quite sure working through the examples if the code was required or if the Authors were merely showing us what they could do with XML/VB.
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I looked for a book that would explain how I can use msxml.dll. This book had lots of examples that I used in my own app. The content was accurate, and simply laid out. Its worth the money!
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