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Originally published at Internet.comIT managers must balance their need to learn new technologies and the increasing demands put on their time. When managers want a "crash course" in a new area, they frequently turn to books, usually from such publishers as Wiley or Addison-Wesley. These books, however, tend to adhere to a one-size-fits-all philosophy: They provide overview information, but quickly expand to provide details specific to developers. Managers need to pick and choose the sections appropriate for them - and hope they didn't skip something important.
Book Information REVIEW: XML and the Enterprise for Managers.
By Benoît Marchal.
Published by and available through MightyWords, Inc. 2001. $12.95, online, Secured PDF.
In XML and the Enterprise for Managers author Benoît Marchal doesn't try to be all things to all people. He writes for the CTO and project leader market. In the short time it takes you to read Marchal's thirty-five page piece, you'll know what XML is, what standards have been built around XML, how to apply XML in publishing and development, and a little bit about parsers, the Document Object Model, Document Type Definition and XML Schemas. You will also be briefly introduced to some popular vocabularies such as WML, DocBook, and RosettaNet and have Web links to further explore these vocabularies. Will you be able to write your own well-formed XML documents and DTDs from scratch? Probably not. But that's why you read this book and your developers read one weighing in at 300 pages...
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