- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (Aug 30 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0596000537
- ISBN-13: 978-0596000530
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,268,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Subtitled "Mastering XML Transformations", XSLT covers a core XML technology. XML is great for processing or transporting data, but it is rarely what you want as final output. Using XSLT, you can transform XML data into a presentation format such as HTML or Adobe PDF. You can also transform data from one XML vocabulary into another. This title is both a tutorial and reference, explaining the full use of XSLT and XPath expressions.
The book opens with a concise overview of XML and a guide to installing Apache's Xalan XSLT engine, which is used for the examples throughout. The next chapter puts XSLT to work, showing how to create and apply a simple style sheet. Chapter 3 introduces XPath, with the following chapter covering more advanced topics such as branching, looping, recursion, invoking XSLT templates with parameters and using XSLT variables. The following chapter deals with linking, the next sorting and grouping, and after that the author shows how to use the document function to combine XML documents. There is a detailed look at extending XSLT with Java, Javascript and other languages. To close the tutorial section the author offers a case study centred on a tutorial-building tool he developed, with the engaging name of Toot-O-Matic. The reference section occupies nearly half of the book, and covers XSLT and XPath. It is the best kind of reference, with detailed examples, comments and illustrations. Finally there is a brief guide to common problems and a glossary.
This is a fine book for those who need to get up to speed with XSLT, which must include most XML developers. It is also worth checking out Michael Kay's XSLT Programmer's Reference. Kay's book has a little more detail, while this title is more approachable for XSLT newcomers. --Tim Anderson
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A very good job explaining the XML technology with very descriptive narrative and superb examples... -- Doug Larson, San Diego Mac Users Group, Feb 2002
I was particularly impressed by the amount of example material in the reference section... -- David Nash, CVU, Feb 2002
The book makes you rethink your projects, past and present. If you do want to employ XSLT, this can serve as a valuable tool for deepening your knowledge. -- John Prince, The Rational Edge, Jan 2001
This book is a must-have for developers working
with XML and XSLT -- Brian Donovan, evolt.org
This book is an excellent introduction and reference. -- Gbdirect.co.uk
I was particularly impressed by the amount of example material in the reference section... -- David Nash, CVU, Feb 2002
The book makes you rethink your projects, past and present. If you do want to employ XSLT, this can serve as a valuable tool for deepening your knowledge. -- John Prince, The Rational Edge, Jan 2001
This book is a must-have for developers working
with XML and XSLT -- Brian Donovan, evolt.org
This book is an excellent introduction and reference. -- Gbdirect.co.uk
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Not Very Useful AT ALL,
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This review is from: XSLT (Paperback)
IMO book is too simple, never really give you anything to build on.I bought it for a school project at the end I still bought Michael Kay's book(much more detail) now this one is laying under my bed collecting dust.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing, not well organized,
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This review is from: XSLT (Paperback)
As a cookbook, it doesn't tell you nearly enough about the nitty-gritty of the functions it documents. On the other hand, it's too disorganized to be a good introduction -- it doesn't lead the reader through the need-concept-implementation loop. The first couple chapters were OK, but I found that every time I tried something using the book, there was an essential piece of information missing. The XSLT reference section was actually less informative than the online XSLT site documentation(!), and the chapters seemed to restate the same information in a different order. I was reduced to trial and error in order to find out how functions actually behaved. Who needs to spend $40 on a book just to wind up browsing the online API doc and experimenting?
4.0 out of 5 stars
Concise and clear,
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This review is from: XSLT (Paperback)
The best and most concise reference work on XSLT. Though you will probably need to get another book, like the XSLT Cookbook, to get a feel for the way that XSLT should be written as opposed to what all of the options are.
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