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Check if O'Reilly has an XML book (I'm sure they must). Their books are always good, in my experience. XML is somewhat difficult to learn in that it's useless by itself; it needs to be applied to something to be useful. (With JavaScript, you can write a Hello World program. With XML, there's not really anything of that sort you can do.) XML is easy enough though, especially if you know HTML. XML is nothing more than a language which you can use to hold tree-structured data. By tree-structured, I mean something like this: [url=http://www.slimeland.com/content/articles/jsenhance/xhtmltree.gif]http://www.slimeland.com/content/articles/jsenhance/xhtmltree.gif[/url] (from [url=http://www.slimeland.com/content/articles/jsenhance/]http://www.slimeland.com/content/articles/jsenhance/[/url] ). Since XML is simple (it's just plain text), it can be read by lots of different programs, and makes a great way of communicating between them. A common usage is to have a server-side application generate XML data about what a web page should have, and then an XSLT style sheet (which is sort of an XML programming language in XML, kinda) written by a web developer takes that data and creates an XHTML page, which is sent to the user. The solution to the learning problem you mentioned is to not copy examples from the book, but write your own examples in light of what you're learning in the book. You'll end up copying the bits and pieces, but in the end you'll be making your *own* code, which helps you learn a lot better.
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