Xml
XML Schema
Format: Paperback
Author: Eric Van Der Vlist
ReleaseDate: 15 June, 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Rating:
It is not easy to read it but there is not so much of other books 
). XML Schema is used almost everywhere (in connection with XML documents, Web Services, SOAP etc. So I as other people needed to master XML Schema. There is not a great choice of XML Schema books. Specification is already quite getting old. The book is not easy to read. I read it sequentially chapter after chapter and I mastered a lot of basic rules. The main problem now I see is, XML Schema itself does not give you too much of design freedom. Sometimes you need to define a structure (data type) according value of other elements. So now I know mainly what is not possible to do in XML Schema.
After all I have to recommend the book. You have to read it twice. So I have just bought another XML Schema book from Priscilla and I hope I will get to know XML Schema from other point of view.
Tough read
It has all of the required content but it doesn't provide much perspective of how it should be used. This book is very dry and terse. You could use it as a reference, but I recommend the XML Schema Companion before this one.
An Editing Nightmare 
This is not the kind of book you can pick up and read cover to cover (unless insomnia is a real condition for you, in which case this book may help). This book had potential to be a definitive guide to XML schema. It is, by no means, a tutorial of XML schema - or even a reference. It's more of an exploratory academic walk of the W3C recommendation and all of its foibles and nuances. There is wealth of information in this book, if you can glean it out from inbetween the droning prose and historical diatribe.
O'Reilly should be shamefully embarassed for ever letting this book go to print in the condition it is. It is replete with errata, typos, and slopped together examples. This book is destined to frustrate those new to XML schema. An uncharacteristicly poor level of quality for O'Reilly.
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