Probably not the response you are looking for but........XML is so easy to learn and understand, and getting the basics down for XML formatting can be garnered from the first few chapters of any book. I wouldn't bother with some thick book that over-analyzes the intricacies of what is essentially a high level data transit format.
The real power of XML comes into play when you utilize it's compatability in your application layer. For instance, .NET's built in XML classes make receiving and sending complex objects easy and....quite honestly...fun. So if that is your platform, you'd want to spend your time learning all the ..NET classes and methods that deal with XML.....serializing and deserializing your objects, receiving XML via webservices, parsing objects received via XML, etc. So I guess my advice would be, spend the bulk of your time becoming familiar with how you utilize the power of XML within whatever your application setup is, as opposed to "XML" by itself. Does any of that make sense? On 1/10/07, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alright. I have been asked what I need to go from beginning XML to as > expert as possible as soon as possible. Apart from a et of headphones > and lots of coffee... what books would be good for this? I'll also > need some windows server and sql server books -- mine are the > Microsoft texts, and I really don't like them. Anyway... any > recommendations? I'm told cost is not really an object. > > Thanks > Dana > > -- > The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there > are to laugh at it. > Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005 > US TV host and Science Guy > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:224192 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
