Subject: RE: [xsl] Books on XSLT/XPATH From: "Simon Shutter" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:34:52 -0800 |
Thanks everyone for their input to my original post. I just ordered Michael Kay's XSLT 2.0 and XPATH 2.0 so I hope they don't accelerate the production of another version (kidding of course - it sounds like the next versions will be worth it for any improvements to the information design as well as any edits to match the W3C final recommendation.) It seemed a toss up between Michael's books and Jeni Tennison's tome. I read a lot of negative user comments about Michael's books but they seemed to be on the presentation not the content of the books. What sold me on Michael's books was the excerpt that was available for download. As an XSL novice I found it very readable and a valuable education on the background to XSLT. I trust the rest of the material will be as good. Finally, as a novice how does one pronounce XSLT? Is it X-S-L-T (which seems cumbersome on my tongue at least) or some easier form? For that matter is there a guide somewhere to pronouncing all the various W3C acronyms? Simon -----Original Message----- From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: February 22, 2007 3:05 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [xsl] Books on XSLT/XPATH At 12:08 PM 2/17/2007, Michael Kay wrote: >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. Mike, if the word went out that a new updated and corrected edition, with better indexes, page headers and navigation aids, were due out Any Day Now (and so one might not want to buy the old one), do you suppose this might motivate the publisher to accelerate its production? Of course I'm kidding, but I couldn't agree more that the next edition should be easier to look things up in. It's a "Programmer's Reference", after all. In my own case, I only use the books when I get *really stuck* and resources on the net are failing me -- mainly because they're so hard to find things in, since I know the stuff is there. (I may not be your typical user, but there you have it.) For beginners, I still very much recommend Evan Lenz's little "XSLT 1.0 Pocket Reference" from O'Reilly (as well as Jeni Tennison's introductory treatment, already mentioned). It only covers XSLT 1.0, but it's got an excellent concise writeup of the XSLT processing model, which still applies to 2.0, and that's the place where beginners are most prone to getting stuck. You can start working with 2.0 right away with this book, understanding only that when things get hard, you can also look elsewhere since XSLT 2.0 almost certainly has a way to help. Master what's in its 172 pages and you'll gain quite a command of the language, in either version. Cheers, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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