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RE: help understanding xslt processing model

2005-08-31 01:30:22

Some people are happy to learn from examples by trial and error; it looks to
me as if you're the sort of person who isn't content with that, and wants to
understand the underlying concepts.

That's the sort of person whom I had in mind as the target audience for my
XSLT Programmer's Reference. After using XSLT for a month or so you're
exactly at the right stage to get a lot of value from the book. The only
difficult choice is whether to get the 2nd edition (covering XSLT 1.0) or
the third (for XSLT 2.0) - note that in the latter case, you should get the
companion volume on XPath 2.0 as well. 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


-----Original Message-----
From: jonec(_at_)dslextreme(_dot_)com 
[mailto:jonec(_at_)dslextreme(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 31 August 2005 01:36
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] help understanding xslt processing model

HI,

I have quite a bit of programming experience but after using xslt forr
about a month (using web and oreilly book mostly), I still am all too
often befuddled as to why my output is a certain way and not 
another :(

I can attribute allmost all my errors to a lack of 
understanding of how
the xslt processor is walking through the style sheet/input document
and applying my rules and the default rules.

Could anyone perhaps point me to any good reference martial 
on understandin
g the model more in depth?

I really wish I could just see it in pseudo code; with the default
template logic too. Just because that's the sort of thing I
understand fairly readily, it shows the logic. foreach this do
this, while this etc.

I'm using mostly libxslt on linux to transform xml to html. I've tried
a few debuggers to see the walking through of the stylesheet as it
happens, but the linux debuggers aren't very good and often can't make
it through the sheet heh.

any help appreciated!
thanks, Jone



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