Product Description
XML is everywhere at the moment. It provides a versatile, cross-platform way of describing data. It is the way in which the information of the future will be stored. However, by itself, XML looks dull. It needs dressing up in diamonds and pearls to bring it to life. And how?
Flash is a visual feast, providing a fantastic way of interacting with web sites. It’s the optimum format for presentation over the web. XML is the best way of storing the data that drives the Internet, for delivering a main feature and not just a sideshow. Mix them together and they create dynamite results.Amazon.com Review
An intriguing part of the Flash scripting language is the XML object, and Flash XML StudioLab shows how to use it to build powerful dynamic Web applications. To enjoy this book you need to know Flash, but the XML aspect is explained from scratch. In fact, the first four chapters offer a general introduction to XML, which is useful or irritating depending on how well you know the subject already. Chapter 5 gets into the real story, introducing ActionScript’s XML object. The following chapter gives an example, using XML to manage a set of tarot cards. The same example is continued in the subsequent chapters, showing how to search and examine the XML data, and how to upload and download XML content. Next comes an event-handling example. The scene changes for a look at a Flash chat client using XML along with Perl on the server, and then comes a chapter on integrating an online database using PHP, MySQL, Flash, and XML. The final chapter shows how to draw on XML news feeds in Flash. Two appendices offer a general look at advanced XML, including DTDs, Schemas, and XSL, and a short Perl primer to help with Web server programming.
A book on Flash and XML is a great idea, and this title will undoubtedly get you started and inspire some creative thinking. It is spoiled by an uneven style and the space given to general XML background that can easily be found elsewhere. Even so, it’s a good read for Flash developers who want to use dynamic XML content in their Web designs. –Tim Anderson, Amazon.co.uk
last week I bought the book , and till now it looks SO gerat
Rating: 4 / 5
The reason I bought this book is to learn about Flash and XML. I did not buy it to read long winded passages, with cute word play. It takes way to long to get to the point.
The book claims to be for designers but the graphics are ugly.
Do we really need two basicly blank pages to introduce each chapter? What does the grey bar at the top of every page do? What are the 5 grey lines on each page for?
491 pages long and 20 percent is wasted paper, get rid of the graphic noise and save a tree.
Take a tip from the quick start books or the o’reilly books, make everything that is printed work for you. Edit out the fluff.
The information is OK, but only when one takes the time to remove the graphic junk and word fluff.
Rating: 3 / 5
Excellent for XML and Flash!!
Rating: 5 / 5
The book is too wordy, I think the reader donot want to read a story book, also it is better to put notes under screen shots and pictures.
I hope Friendsofed can notice the readers feedback. More content, few joke.
Rating: 3 / 5
The book is too wordy, I think the reader donot want to read a story book, also it is better to put notes under screen shots and pictures.
I hope Friendsofed can notice the readers feedback. More content, few joke.
Rating: 3 / 5