RE: [xsl] A Question **TO** XSLT Newbies

[Americo Albuquerque <aalbuquerque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

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> Andrew Watt
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> Subject: [xsl] A Question **TO** XSLT Newbies
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> I would be very interested to receive reactions of XSLT newbies to
> something I am exploring as a way to help newcomers to XSLT 
> to be able to 
> help themselves in solving XSLT programming tasks. I know 
> many newcomers to 
> mailing lists much prefer simply to lurk, so replies on or 
> off list are 
> equally welcome.

When I start with xsl I used the namespace 'http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl'. I
didn't know then that this wasn't xslt. I was reading 'Professional ASP XML'
and that was the namespace used there. So I try some examples start doing
some pages of my one. 
I got very confused when I subscribe to this list and everybody start saying
that this wasn't xslt but an older draft. I kept reading and start using
xslt and trying to solve some problems that appear now and then on the list
and compared them with others post here.

I didn't find xslt or xpath very difficult (but I still get my head spinning
when I see Dimistre's xpath examples :)). Normally I break long xpath
statements using variables to keep them more readable and understandable.






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