I have XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 by Michael Kay and also
Beginning XSLT 2.0 from Novice to Professional by Jenni Tennison.
Since I was a newbie to XSLT I started with the Beginning XSLT 2.0 book,
I have come to understand many new features of XSLT 2.0 with this book I've
read up until Paths and Sequences
but haven't tried the exercises in the book yet.
I feel that when learning any programming language there are multiple stages of
learning
1) Learn all the concepts first and get a high level understand of the overall
language. Especially if one is comeing from a procedural language or OO
background
it helps to look at things from a new perspective or at least anticipate
that there's a new perspective to any language.
2) Re-read and practice the exercises - the second pass gets the foundation
strong.
3) Then look at design patterns that provide common solutions to known/
frequent problems.
After gaining some basic understanding of XSLT I looked through the XSLT 2.0
and XPath 2.0 books by Michael Kay, and I feel that the two books are written
very well and cover
each topic comprehensively with tabular references, graphs, code snippets. I
plan to read them soon once I finish the Beginning XSLT book, or I may refer
them on an as needed basis to look-up detailed information regarding a topic.
The index of the book shows the page numbers for each topic clearly and I find
that it is easy to navigate the book, upon understanding the basic concepts of
XSLT and XPath.
-Regards
Rashmi
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From: Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:08:25 PM
Subject: RE: [xsl] Books on XSLT/XPATH
so the
reflection is obviously one against the format chosen by Wrox
and continued when Wiley took things over. Of course, I
can't imagine that this is something they do in
ignorance: My guess is that their research and/or
user-feedback from over the years suggests this to be a
format that works for the core readers/custome
lly, the original Wrox (when they were an independent UK-based
publisher) got this right; when Wiley took over the brand they messed it up,
largely due to a lack of coordination between their "editorial" and
"production" departments - a distinction which didn't exist in the much
smaller Wrox company. When the technical editor and I realized the page
proofs didn't have the alphabetical section headings we tried to get it
fixed but were told it was too late to change, for which I can only
apologize to readers!
I'm in the very early stages of discussion with Wiley about doing a revised
edition of the books to fix the few areas where the final specs have
diverged. Don't hold your breath.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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