Best xml programming books according to redditors
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We found 1 Reddit comment discussing the best xml programming books. We ranked the 1 resulting product by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
I have been learning xpath this past year for webscraping. I suggest that you look at learning them simultaneously. Basically, you need to know XML structure and terminology really well. Backup and learn that first, and brush up on your HTML while you're in there. Once you know the words to describe the things in the XML tree, then you can lookup how to extract them using xpath.
http://www.amazon.com/Students-Guide-XSLT-Andrew-Whitmore/dp/1481951092 is XSLT but reasonably straight forward and short, quick to the point about XPath and manipulation of them.
http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/ is a really good reference as well. I know you mentioned looking at it, but open up a document and start practicing what it is teaching you on that document.
I use the Oxygen XML editor to preview my xpaths, but there are some online things you can use as well.
In all honesty, I've been doing stupid projects as methods of teaching myself xpath. This is the best way to learn, I think. Practice is key.
This all said, I still have to use regular expressions with my scraping. I extract everything I can from the HTML via xpath, but often times that element content will have multiple data values that can only be extracted via brute force or regular expressions.