Subject: Re: [xsl] How did you learn XSL? From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:00:10 +1000 |
My story ; I was tinkering with XML in some project at work (as we all did back in 2000 or so), and was increasingly getting frustrated (I initially used a more colourful wording for this part) with the poor API choices and ways to turn that XML into various forms that wasn't treating the XML as strictly data-driven. Some smart person (no one seems to know who) had heard some buzz-word "XSL", and as the guy at the GUI side of things, I was made to look into it, and use it. It has been one of the better choices thrusted upon me, not for the success of that one project (although it went extremely well) but the concepts that I was introduced to, especially functional and declarative programming, but also concurrent concepts (SAX, mostly, but also other sexy but less known methods), serious XML (like understanding xml:id(s) for serious modeling, namespaces [and its warts] and node-types and structures, especially) and back-end marshalling of resources through various pipes. In many ways, XSLT made me a far better developer than any other technology I've studied, except, perhaps Topic Maps, but then my first open-source project and serious past-time project I ever did was an XSLT Topic Maps engine and site creator, so both at the same time, at least. I think the resource I consulted the most through my first years were Pawson et co and the XSL FAQ, and then came this here wonderful mailing-list, plus Tennison's godlike pages and articles. Books came later when I didn't need them any more, just as reference. Kay's first XSLT book was the primary one. Regards, Alex -- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps --- http://shelter.nu/blog/ ---------------------------------------------- ------------------ http://www.google.com/profiles/alexander.johannesen ---
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