Re: [xsl] XQuery Updates in XSLT

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Liam Quin" <liam@xxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 5:13 AM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [xsl] XQuery Updates in XSLT

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:41:15PM -0700, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
> > The spec is too complex and presents definite challenge for
> > understanding.
>
> Dimitre, you're well aware that the specification is not a tutorial.
>
> Liam
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> Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
> http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
Yes, but if someone as knowledgeable as Dimitre can struggle to understand a 
spec then that leaves little hope for us mortals.
I normally learn by reading a book written by someone who understands the 
spec, Dr. Kay's XSLT books for example, and when I've mastered the basics 
use the spec if I have low-level queries that need answering.

This approach hasn't worked with XQuery yet, Amazon has no recent books on 
the subject, understandable given that the XQuery Update CR was only issued 
on 1 August 2008. Anyone know of any "in the pipeline"?


Joe
http://joe.fawcett.name