Perl And XML: A Frozen Book From 2003
Perl book review: outdated, but deep dive into XML concepts like xslt, schema, xlink & xpointer. Good explanations on Web Services (SOAP, XML-RPC), but too many code samples make it hard to read.
I continue my reviews with another antic Perl book 😄 Disclaimer A lot of weaknesses of this book are due to the age but I won't refrain to report them with honesty :) I'm very grateful to the person that took time to write this book : Mark Riehl and Ilya Sterin ! The bad It is outdated, definitely, like a bit frozen in 2003. I wrote another book review about Perl and LWP which was outdated also but not suffering as much as this book. Clearly, this book was written during the "XML boom" in 2003 and keeps scars from this period : The coding style is not modern When you wan...