Subject: Re: [xsl] How do I capture the text "around" a node? From: Peter Lavender <plaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:51:38 +1000 |
Hi Everyone.... > > I'm reluctant to purchase a book as a reference as I > > understand that somethings are not set in concrete yet. > > > > With the cost of books these days I find it hard to justify > > purchasing them only to find that it hasn't answered my questions. > > > > Well, at least you admit it. I think there are a lot of other people who > ask questions on this list as their first point of call rather than as a > last resort, judging by the way they invent random syntax in the hope > that it might work. Well, it was becoming random syntax in the end, and the truth is I'm still not very clear on how it all works, I think I have got this far only by pure luck than from real knowledge and understanding. :) > For my part, the cost of learning a language by trial and error is > orders of magnitude greater than the cost of buying a book. Especially > when you take in to account the cost to other people of answering your > questions (or deciding not to). That's a very fair and valid point, and I agree. I'm not averse to buying books, just ask my wife, but at some point I have to contrain the constant drain on the wallet text books bring about. At the risk of being booed and jeered out of the list, I feel I should state my reasons for not buying a book on the subject just yet. I'm doing XML currently as a postgrad, there has been no text listed for the subject as the lecturer doesn't feel there is a book that covers the subject matter of XML (in it's broadest sence ) well enough. A friend of mine has XML in a nutshell which has been helpful to a point, but as it is a nutshell book, it obviously doesn't have indepth examples. Even the Formatting Objects stuff left us a bit unsure. Unlike OOP and databases where there are a magnitude of texts, as well as the knowledge being more mature, XML on the other hand could lead us to purchasing texts on XSL, xpath and xpointer, XML etc etc. The difficulty I have is that I don't intend to persue XML much after completing the subject, since I have other subjects to complete over the next 12 months, I doubt it will be until then before I look again toward persuing subject matter that interests me. And while I had struggled with XML as just another fad technology the snake oil salesmen were flogging to the business community becuase the web is passe', so web services and XML, SOAP are the new way to do business... I have become not so much an advocate of XML, but I can see the light... One other reason I do subscribe to mailing lists, is to see if authors are also on them... Jeni Tenison is already one name I knew as an author, and was surprised to see actively involved, hence a book with her name on it would be high on my purchasing list. I appreciate also that people have to give up their time to reply, hence as a last resort I sent a message to the list. I still doubt that having a book in my hands would have made any difference to me solving this problem alone... just as searching google with a query like "xsl capture text around node" wouldn't give me a reasonable result set. Asking using a more human interface tends to work better becuase simply, if I'm being too vague, humans at least have some idea of what the problem set may be or at least ask pertenant questions of the poster. Anyway... I'll continue to lurk on the list. It has already proven to be more of a resource than the last 3 months of lectures and labs have and I have only been subscribed 24 hours. Regards, Pete. -- Due to a lack of imagination, this signature will remain under construction indefinitely. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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