Subject: Re: [xsl] teaching / learning axes From: Philip Fearon <pgfearo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 11:19:01 +0100 |
I've been out of the classroom too long. Yes, I can now see see that getting the students themselves to form a document could help - much more interactive. I must try this for schema design sessions... Phil Fearon http://qutoric.com On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 10:33 pm, Philip Fearon wrote: >> Wouldn't a more interactive approach be to provide an online tool that >> lets you trace each step of any real XPath expression (by clicking on >> it), including axes and predicates, lighting up node 'hits' (against a >> selected source XML) on a tree view as you go? Or perhaps a more >> abstract view helps with the learning process. > > My interactive approach when teaching XPath is firstly showing diagrams of > the axes for a simple document from the attendees' own field (or a more > generic one for an open class) then secondly giving attendees pieces of > paper identifying one of the nodes and asking them to sort themselves into > document order, identify their children and ancestors, etc. People do > tend to get it quite well when they are the document. > > Regards, > > > Tony Graham tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx > Consultant http://www.mentea.net > Mentea 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > XML, XSL FO and XSLT consulting, training and programming
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