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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9780596000530
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596000537
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 478
Publication Date: August 15, 2001
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 365049
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Rating: - Well organised chapters but be prepared to persevere if you're not a programmer
Coming from a tech writing background, I bought this book back in early 2007, wishing to develop practical programming skills in XSLT 1.0, which I was utilising to transform XML-formatted documentation into multiple output formats.
The book appears to be written for those intending to learn XSLT with little or no prior XSLT programming knowledge. It has topics organised in a manner which cover the basics of XSLT programming principles in early chapters to more complex XSLT programming ... Read More
Rating:  - Its actually a good book
I was able to use this book on a new project I was assigned to at work. I had previously read a bit about XPath, but other than that, I had no experience with XSLT. Within 2 days of reading, that being the first 4 chapters or so, I was able to fix the issues I had been assigned.
This is a book for programmers, and for people who know a bit about XML. It is not a school textbook. It does reference some topics before it details them, but if you are a programmer, you are used to reading ... Read More
Rating: - A book I really use regularly
I've been programming in a system that uses XSLT for reporting for about three years now. This is the book I actually use. It's getting beat-up and battered and has a couple of pages bookmarked - mostly in Chapter 3. I found the initial Hello World examples - where the same XML is processed for text, SVG, Java, and VRML - to be a really fascinating read.
The core functional programming block in Chapter 4 is worth the skull-sweat it takes to work through it. One useful feature is a number ... Read More
Rating:  - A Disappointment From O'Reilly.
This book is one of the most frustrating technical books I have ever read. The fact that it is from O'Reilly just makes it doubly insulting. The author doesn't bother to explain concepts. He just lists out the syntax for the various elements without bothering to explain how the instruction works. This book might be useful as an XSLT reference but it is useless as a learning tool. I totally agree with the other reviews of this book about the "huge honking examples" To give you an idea of how bad it is, the ... Read More
Rating:  - Find Another book
This book was difficult to use, and I found that the author tried to cram too much into his examples. Some concepts were really poorly explained. Fortunately my company paid for this book, and not me.
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