XML and Perl
March 18, 2010 by BPELworld.com
Product Description
If you are a Perl programmer looking to explore Perl’s XML capabilities or an XML developer with a basic understanding of Perl, this book will provide you with all the tools required for XML processing with Perl. XML and Perl teaches you to create portable, powerful, and extensible applications when you use XML and Perl together. You’ll also learn to customize your XML processing facilities to accomplish unique tasks.With this book, you’ll quickly see the advantages of using XML and Perl together, and you’ll be able to perform even complicated tasks more easily with powerful Perl XML modules.
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Not sure if it’s all the good tech books have made me picky, this is one of the worst tech books I’ve read. Imagine an old school teacher keeps telling you all the theories about something without telling you how to do it? This is it. I wish I could return it for my money.
For the 1st half of the book, it seems the only thing XML::Parser can do is to print out what’s parsed. I refuse to believe so.
Rating: 1 / 5
I wrote a review VERY critical of what O?Reilly passes off as reference books. Their various CD Books are pathetic. Shortly after getting burned on two of their books, I was in need of a solid technical book on perl and XML. Well instead of O?Reilly?s Perl and XML I voted with my dollars for Reihl?s XML and Perl. This is how a technical reference should be written. If you want to get into the perl and xml saddle quick, you can?t have a better boost thatn XML and Perl.
Rating: 5 / 5
Using practical, real-world examples, XML And Perl is the collaborative effort of Mark Riehl and Ilya Sterin to demonstrates how to perform a variety of XML tasks, ranging from such basic tasks as XML parsing, to more advanced tasks such as writing XML event handlers, RDBMS integration, and XML transformation. XML And Perl is a continuingly useful addition to personal and professional XML and Perl reference collections.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you are interested in this book, you should already be aware of the importance of XML. Perhaps you already have used it elsewhere. More importantly, you should already have the basics of Perl. The book does not start from scratch on it. Though it assumes no prior knowledge of XML. It shows what can be done in Perl, to parse, change and write XML. Numerous modules already exist, especially for parsing. You really do not want to write an XML parser!
Once you’ve understood enough to have your own custom XML files and be able to write Perl to read and display these, then it should get easier. Those initial steps can then easily be modified as your XML data and analysis changes.
Rating: 4 / 5
The introduction tells you exactly what you’re going to get and then you get it. The chapters follow a logical and intuitive structure with plenty of helpful graphics and code samples. I would have liked to have seen more about the differences between XSLT and CSS and why I should use one over the other. A great job is done explaining the differences between DTDs and XML Schemas, advantages and disadvantages of each, who should use which approach and why. The section on using XML with RDBMS was especially helpful. Overall, this is an excellent book. I’d recommend it to any intermediate Perl hacker or XML type. For beginners, I’d recommend “Learning Perl” (O’Reilly) and “XML for Dummies” (IDG), then this book.
Rating: 5 / 5