Re: [xsl] teaching / learning axes

[Philip Fearon <pgfearo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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,
>
>
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