Subject: Re: [xsl] Book recommendation (was: xsl:copy - change attributes and tag name) From: "Joerg Heinicke" <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:46:49 +0200 |
> Joerg, > that worked perfect! > how did you learn all this stuff?? For me xslt is the most difficult thing > to learn... I cannot "click" my head to this way of programming. > I have to realize that I've never read any book nor tried to learn it > deepfully. > > Do you recommend me one? any pointers? > > thanks again for all your help! > Matias Do you really want to know this ;-) Once upon the time, I think it was around November 2000, I had a little job in my firm (I'm still a working student). They had no work for me and said, that I should have a look at Cocoon 2 (less than alpha version) and XSLT. It was very frustrating at the beginning. How do <xsl:apply-templates> and <xsl:template> work? All tutorials or references I found were in English, no one in my native language German. So it was more a test, trial and error. Anytime I found www.vbxml.com. They gave me a very good overview with their reference and their tutorial. Now I can recommend http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/index.html as reference too. And I found the mailing list XSLTalk at yahoo groups, but this mulberrytech list is much more helpful for learning XSLT. Then there are a few special sites. E.g. Jeni's site at http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/index.html or the FAQ at http://www.dpawson.co.uk (at the moment offline because of too much traffic). Very helpful can be the tutorial by Norman Walsh at http://www.nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/xsl/index.html. And if you still need more links, have a look at http://xsl.startkabel.nl/. And me? In the meantime we built our first web application completely based on Cocoon 2, XML, XSLT and Java (www.lofex.de). I bought my first book 3 months ago: Michael Kay "XSLT - 2nd edition". I don't use it very often, but until now I found everything I want. Not few people on the list think that this is the best book on XSLT, "the bible". I can't compare it to other books, I can only say, that it is really very good. Hope this helps, Joerg XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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