Subject: [xsl] XSLT FAQ ideas (was Re: trouble with namespaces) From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 03:57:20 -0700 (MST) |
Michael Kay wrote: > The FAQ has become too big, and it contains answers to many > infrequently-asked questions. Given that it's largely a collection of extracts from xsl-list posts that answer real questions, I don't think this is an entirely fair criticism. I agree that it is perhaps not making enough of a distinction between esoteric "nice-to-knows" and truly frequently asked questions. It's more just that it needs to be better indexed, and many of its entries on closely related topics need to be edited into a single bit of prose that is The Last Word on the subject. I was thinking that something more like a Wiki [0] version of the FAQ would be a good idea. I am a big fan of carefully edited, centralized FAQs like the excellent Perl FAQ and docs [1], but the decentralized model might work well, too. However, I tried several different Wiki software packages and I wasn't happy with any of them. There's also the halfway-in-between idea that the PHP docs use: one or two people edit the document that's split up into separate sections, each having its own little moderated message board where users add their own notes. [2] > I think it would be a good idea if we could decide on a "top ten most > frequently asked questions" to go on the front page. Here's my starter > list: > > * How do I output NBSP? > * How do I output an ampersand in a URL? > * How do I update a variable? > * How do I match elements in the default namespace? > * How do I eliminate duplicate values? > * How do I group on common values? Agreed. * What are these garbage characters in my UTF-8 output? * How do I split up my source data into fixed-length tables or pages? * How do I alternate colors in table rows? * How do I duplicate my input, but change one element? * Why doesn't my stylesheet work? PS: it uses the WD-xsl namespace. * How do I pass parameters into my stylesheet? I'm using MSXML / IE. [0] http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWiki [1] http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/faq/perlfaq4.html [2] http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php Mike -- Mike J. Brown | http://skew.org/~mike/resume/ Denver, CO, USA | http://skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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