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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780764569104
ISBN: 0764569104
Label: Wrox
Manufacturer: Wrox
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 552
Publication Date: August 27, 2004
Publisher: Wrox
Sales Rank: 185930
Studio: Wrox
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Rating:  - Complete and authoritative reference, terrible format
I have never had a question about XPath that wasn't answered by this book. I appreciate having an authoritative reference written by someone who was deeply involved in the development of the standard.
However, this book (and its companion XSLT reference) is perhaps the worst-formatted reference book I have ever seen. Much of the book consists of an alphabetical reference of XPath functions. Unfortunately, the page headers and footers only contain page numbers and chapter titles. ... Read More
Rating:  - Utility manual
I'm reading Michel Kay many years ago. The XPath separate book from XSLT book is a very useful tool.
Rating:  - Highly Unpractical, Only Good If You Already Know It
If you are an expert in XPath then this book might be worth having. But if you only have a general knowledge of XPath this book is basically useless. The author clearly has a solid knowledge of his topic. But the ability to communicate it in a practical way is sorely lacking.
Rating:  - Not the author's fault (I think)
The problems people describe aren't the author's fault - I think. If someone did the ghostwriting, even with him dealing with the submitted manuscript, then shame on Mr. Kay, although his reputation would preclude this being a possibility. I think the odds would be like the lottery - so this would be an anti-lottery.
As to the quality of the WROX books, something many people forget is WROX went belly up, despite the quality of their material. The assets & IP were picked up by Wiley ... Read More
Rating:  - The basics, clear and there
After stumbling around trying to a handle on XSLT, I finally realized that a big chunk was not being explained within the XSLT books. Most of the XSLT books bring XPath statements out of hat like a magician's rabbit -- there is no way one can figure out what to do in any given situation. Thanks to this book, what was mystery meat is now clear as a bell. In the first nine pages, a dozen questions were answered. I don't see how you can do serious XPath and XSLT without this book in hand.
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