Re: [xsl] New to XSLT arena

[Kamal Bhatt <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frans Englich wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 00:50, Kamal Bhatt wrote:
>   
> > I found the following pages have good intro tutorials:
> >
> > http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/default.asp
> > http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/
> >     
>
> I would take w3schools lightly. To my experience it is any times references as 
> if copied directly from the spec or very shallow explanations. It lacks the 
> wisdom, such as "XML do's and dont's" and explanation of the concepts in 
> XSL-T(that newcomers, especially with a procedural background, have a hard 
> time to understand, understandably).
>
> Many times you get that kind of knowledge by reading something produced by 
> people having worked a lot with the particular technologies or in some other 
> way have deep experience in the field.
>   
I found that as a starting point it wasn't too bad. I agree that for 
more complex stuff it is a pretty poor resource, but for xpath in 
particular it was a good resource. I still use it as a reference for axes.
> Cheers,
>
> 		Frans
>
>
>   


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Kamal Bhatt