Below you will find updates to the programs on the CD and additional software and pointers to keep your book updated and useful.
If you have purchased the book and have a comment or an XML-related question, please feel free to contact the author at faa@thefaactory.com.
The following software was either (1) upgraded since the book release or (2) not included on the CD because of copyright/license and/or running environment issues.
In spite of the best efforts of the author and publisher, all books have errors. The following is a list of all the known mistakes in XML Develper's Guide. Thanks to E. Majikste for support.
| Page | Line/Fig | Description | Reads | Should Read |
| 9 | first sample | incorrect closing tag for surname | name | surname |
| 14 | 6 | Missing / in closing tag | <bar> | </bar> |
| 16 | fig 1.6 | Missing / in closing tag | <title> | </title> |
| 18 | * | Missing / in closing tags | <product> | </product> |
| 27 | top two lines | "colon" instead of "semicolon" | colon | semicolon |
| 30 | * | missing ! | <-- | <!-- |
| 84 and 85 | SAXMovies code |
wrong (old and buggy code) | mising / and comparision | download CD update v1.0 |
| 95 | second line from bottom | copy/paste error | aName="year" | aName="rated" |
| 95 | parag.2 last line | Incorrect reference | Building little languages | Builders (QuadTree) |
| 96 | example | Missing ; | %operator | %operator> |
| 96 | parag.3 line 1 | Incorrect reference | Grasp patterns | Grasp patterns not included in this edition |
| 96 | * | Incorrect reference | Little language pattern | Little language is not included on the book |
| 97 | * | Unclear reference | "Putting it all together" | "Using XMLReader - An example" |
| 115 | * | two comments wrap up on the next line | //this is just a
leaf <wrap> in the tree |
//this is just a
leaf <wrap> in the tree See QuadTreeViewer 2.0 for expanded and improved code |
| 139 | 3 | missing element name | <!ATTLIST href.. | <!ATTLIST a href.. |
| 140 | * | Incorrect DTD | * | Corrected version in code of DOMCrawler 2.0 |
| 143 | footnote | wrong reference | Appendix B | Appendix D |
| 150 | first under bold | wrong reference | Figure 6.10 | Should not be there |