as an addenda;
books are good but there are vast amount of resources online such as
www.dpawson.co.uk XSLT FAQ
XSLT normally finds itself combined in some host context, e.g. a Java
developers perspective towards XML processing in general would be very
different to a PHP developers....and as XSLT (should) remain the same,
you may find yourself doing party contortions....generally;
XSLT Books
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Michael Kay's XSLT 2.0 (latest edition), must exist on your desktop
Jeni Tennisons Latest edition of Beginning XSLT 2.0 (APRESS not WROX)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590593243/qid=1109579778/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/103-0760702-7495050?v=glance&s=books
Note: Having had the pleasure of technically reviewing Dr. Tennison's
1st edition of Beginning XSLT, from WROX; I think its spot on with
respect to beginners...and if u can get that edition at a good price
then I would also get it in addition to the new book on XSLT 2.0 from
APRESS.
Jeni Tennison's XSLT/XPATH on the EDGE being more of a cookbook of
solutions to intermediate-hard XSLT problems and should be on the
bookshelf as well
Learning XSLT by Michael Fitzgerald
XSLT Cookbook by Sal Mangano
note: XSL:FO by David Pawson is a good reference, XSL:FO is starting to
crop up in my monthly/weekly life and getting an understanding of it
augments your XSLT karma
Other useful books/sites
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Elliote Rusty Harold's Effective XML is an excellent all-rounder tome
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml/
Note dont forget XML Design Handbook,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/186100768X/qid=1109579967/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-0760702-7495050?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
which Dr. Tennison assisted in as well...it has a few XSLT nuggets and
general XML stuff.
Professional php4 xml was a useful tome for those PHP inclined, though
with PHP5 is admittedly out of date
and for the java newbie out there, sometimes its useful to dig through
the past...http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/ is an online book
(prev work by Elliote Rusty Harold),
and for the .NET and MSXML inclined I have found that www.topxml.com and
MSDN's XML section seemed to answer most questions..though I dont tend
to work on the platform
as for those using the (transformix) built in Mozilla XSLT processor, I
have yet to find an authoratative site/book...though I have had little
problems with XSLT itself...
as for those c/c++inclined I use sablotron from www.gingerall.cz, whom
answered my questions over the years...though the more 'in vogue'
libxslt has all the info you need from its site http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
gl, Jim Fuller
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