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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN num: 9781590593240
ISBN number: 1590593243
Label: Apress
Manufacturer: Apress
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 824
Printing Date: July 22, 2005
Publishing house: Apress
Release Date: September 29, 2008
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This followup to Tennison's Beginning XSLT, has been updated to accomodate the revised XSLT standard. Part one of this book introduces XML and XSLT at a comfortable pace, and gradually demonstrates techniques for generating HTML (plus other formats), from XML. In part two, Tennison applies theory to real-life XSLT capabilities&emdash;including generating graphics.
Each chapter includes step-by-step examples (with code available online), plus review questions at the end, to help you grasp the discussed features. In fact, all of the examples and exercises revolve around an interesting common theme: making TV listings available online. This book lives up to it's name, and will definitely take you from a novice to a professional, in no time!
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I am in a summer XML class for my master's program. We used another book for basic XML and Tennison's book for XSLT. For just learning about XSLT, this book is way over my head. The running example throughout the book is too complex for learning the basics and the author assumes the "beginning" reader is more advanced than this. Very disappointing and frustrating to read.
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After reading this book, I have a thorough understanding of XSLT 2.0. I was really surprised that it covered the Sarissa API, which I use extensively and is also used by other APIs such as MapBuilder.
Though it says 2.0, 1.0 is covered in the book too, although not specifically. The code in the very first 200 pages (and probably more) works with 1.0 as long as you change the namespace references and fix your own typos.
The thing about the community is that most of the XSLT in use is in browsers and is still version 1.0, so 2.0 info isn't useful - yet, though it is covered well in this book.
This book got me up and running with detail in a few days. The explanations and the chapters flow nicely. I liked that it didn't read like a PhD dissertation. Good job Jeni.
Sam
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I suggest this book to all intermediate developers.
The organization of the book focus topics from basic xml to dynamic application using xslt.
Each topic is followed by another in a natural way, making you learning step by step.
Personally i like how the book is organized: a feature is followed by a small example just to give you an idea of how it works, some notes about the caveats and a summary to read while revisiting the book later.
This is how books should be organized not as a mere cut & paste from online ref doc as some books did.
Highly recommended if you want to learn xslt and xpath quickly but in an effective way.
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This book is pretty good about explaining XSL. My one complaint is that the author focuses a little too much on a British soap opera in her examples. Sure it works as an example, but when your demographic is mostly male and American why would you choose a television show directed towards British females? (Of course I know why, but it simply doesn't make sense thinking of marketing.)
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This book does not start with actually teaching XSLT. Chpt1 is called Beyond HTML (no XSLT) Chpt2 is about XML, Chpt3 is creating HTML from XML (see what I am getting at, SHOW ME THE XSLT!). After getting this book I actually immediately ordered Sams Teach Yourself XSLT in 21 Days because I know from experience these books get you right into the subject matter and get you going. However this book will be valuable due to it's broad and detailed scope if you have 6 months time to eventually digest it all. At times it is overly wordy on insignificant matter and instead of building on simple examples as you progress the author uses a complete TV guide right off the start which I find to be quite complex to start teaching people!
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