We got this book at work, and having never worked with XML before I found the book not really that helpful. I found after reading a couple of chapters, skimming, looking at the examples my understanding of XML and how to do XML processing in perl was only a little better than what it was before the book.

In order to complete a basic level of understanding, i got out #!/usr/bin/perl and started writing away.

I personally would want something that started very basic, and went up the scale to complex and complete real world examples of XML based applications.

It would be my opinion this book would not make a good addition to a library...