From: Iain 'Spoon' Truskett <spoon@...>
Date: 2003-01-30T06:42:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Books -- A Question

* Peter Hickman (peter@semantico.com) [30 Jan 2003 04:31]:

[...]
> However a Ruby and XML book could be put together as an edited work
> from several authors, possibly the module authors with an editor for
> consistency.

> Looking to the O'Reilly Perl & XML book as a guide we have

> 10 chapters

> 1 - About Perl and XML and why Perl and XML
> 2 - Overview of XML and XML processing software
> 3 and 4 XML processing basics
> 5 SAX
> 6 Tree processing
> 7 DOM
> 8 XPath, XSLT and other stuff
> 9 RSS, SOAP etc
> 10 Coding XML

> and only a little over a cm thick.

And it glosses over most of the material. New Riders "XML and Perl" book
looks into things a bit more, but has other problems. (2cm, for those
who measure a book's quality by the width of its spine.)



cheers,
-- 
Iain.