Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780764543814
ISBN: 0764543814
Label: Wrox
Manufacturer: Wrox
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 992
Publication Date: May 03, 2001
Publisher: Wrox
Sales Rank: 313678
Studio: Wrox
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Rating:  - Almost unusable
This book, as the other reviewers have said, is an awful beginning or reference text for XSLT.
I have to whip up an XSL transform only a few times a year, so I never remember exactly how the syntax works. This book is never any help. The introductory sections are not informative, and the reference sections are not well-organized and have no helpful examples.
He likes to spend a lot of time explaining in various places that "technically, this blah blah blah is a valid ... Read More
Rating:  - Wealth of information obscured by the editing, writing, and organization
This review is for "XSLT: Programmer's Reference 2nd Edition." The book covers XSLT 1.0 and XPath 1.0. Although these are "old" technologies, they are still heavily used in software in many industries. While there are newer books covering XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0, those technologies have not achieved widespread support, so you will want to rely on this book for the next few years.
Michael Kay is one of the leading authorities on XSLT, XML, and XPath, and it clearly shows in the content ... Read More
Rating:  - Indispensable for XSLT Developers
I just finished up about 3 years on a job where one of my primary functions was editing, troubleshooting, teaching, and writing XSLT. I started that job as an experienced programmer with little XSLT experience, and I found this book relatively easy to navigate. I referred to this book constantly. It was indispensable as a reference for XPath and XSLT functions. Whenever I thought "How do I build the code to grab this XML?" or "What's the name of that function?" I would crack open this book and put ... Read More
Rating:  - Look Elsewhere for XSLT Book
This is the worst technical book I've ever used. There is no organization to it, and there is redundant information, especially in the elements listing section. There are areas that are extremely verbose and make little sense while other areas could use simple, less wordy explanation follwed by an example. This book makes a good paper weight, that's about it.
Rating: - Very tough and unordered reading
It is a pity but I have to write I am not satisfied with the book. It is kind of a book which does not concetrate on the main purpose of a reading - "to learn something". Of course I understand - it is programmer's reference but even so there is a lot of introductory parts which could be done much better.
There are parts that are very very talkative and give nowadays "vain" information and on the other hand there are parts which should be absolutely more narrative. The book reminds me a kind of "scientific" ... Read More
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