Customer Reviews

webchetan said
Excellent! for ones who are pro to ASP and need to intergrate XML with ASP! A must buy!

webchetan said
This is definitely a good book for developers having good knowledge of ASP and XML and how to integrate XML in ASP. I just loved this book. People who say they don't like it, they have not read the book I am sure. Its sure worth the money!

fed10011 said
I'm a big fan of the WROX publications (for ASP in particular), but this book was a disappointment. The writing was choppy - as you might expect from a book with 14 guys on the cover. The examples were cryptic and raise more questions than they answer.

The author(s) seem to me to be attempting to impress us (and each other) with their knowledge of the subject rather than really trying to write a digestible explanation of ways to utilize XML in an ASP environment.

cassi@familynook.com said
This book was a real dissapointment.

I LOVE wrox ASP 3.0 Ref and ADO 2.6 Ref. Maybe Wrox should have taken that approach with this book -- instead of trying to act like this book can in any way teach anything about XML.

The examples in this book are horrid, they aren't in depth enough, and more importantly, don't even correspond well with each other.

Too many of the chapters jump into the middle of a subject, then try to work back to the beginning and then forward to the end.

Trust me, I've read the first 5-7 chapters of this book and finally got so sick of all the ambiguity that I went out to the MS Site and learned more in 30 minutes there than I ever could have with this book.

Some of the case studies in the back are nice, and this book would have made a great reference (had they gone that route), but it is a horrible book to learn how to integrate XML with ASP.

Save your money.

i-summit said
With a LARGE library that consists primarily of Wrox published books, I'm surprised this one was allowed to hit the shelves. Just their examples of SIMPLY Traversing an XML Tree, they use RECURSIVE Function calls!!! Get real, how about a simple example!!! And I know how to do this, I'm just speaking for the beginner XML programmer who's goingto have to try and understand WHY you recursively calleda function. Buy a different book!!! Because this one [is awful]!