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Summary: Best for BEGINNERS !
Review: Best book to start out with XSLT;
quickly takes you to the point where you can put knowledge from the book to work;ALSO - it is very easy to follow the Book on the road BECAUSE it explains exactly what each line of code in examples does; Very thourough analysis and not much mumbo-jambo (as in xslt for dummmies book)
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Summary: Excellent introduction with lots of examples
Review: I just can't understand why there is no rating for the book and the book is priced so low. I am a VB developer of 6 yrs experience and am in the process of learning XML and all its related technologies. I tried to read books on XSLT by different authors and was frustrated by the advanced approach taken by different authors on the subject. I tried reading Jeni Tennison's XSLT. Didn't find it useful. Kay's XSLT has a lot of information but it was written as a reference. If you are new to XSLT read this book (not Kay's book) to get your feet wet and then with some knowledge read Kay's book. Never mind Tennison's book.
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Summary: Good book to learn the basics
Review: I just can't understand why there is no rating for the book and the book is priced so low. I am a VB developer of 6 yrs experience and am in the process of learning XML and all its related technologies. I tried to read books on XSLT by different authors and was frustrated by the advanced approach taken by different authors on the subject. I tried reading Jeni Tennison's XSLT. Didn't find it useful. Kay's XSLT has a lot of information but it was written as a reference. If you are new to XSLT read this book (not Kay's book) to get your feet wet and then with some knowledge read Kay's book. Never mind Tennison's book.
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Summary: Excellent introduction with lots of examples
Review: There isn't much to say, other than this book is a great choice for someone who knows xml and need to learn and use xslt quickly. I usually don't go for the "in 21 days" type books because I'm worried it might be too quick and novice like. However this title is well written, with each chapter going over another area of xslt in the proper sequence. There are plenty of examples to guide you when writing your own transformations. The index makes it easy to find what you need, but I'd recommend going chapter by chapter as quickly as possible if you are confident with programming in scripting/web languages. You can do the whole thing in 7 days if you like. At this point this book and the W3.org site that hosts the xml official specification documents (xsl, xslt, xpath) is all I need. FYI, I'm developing an application in Visual Studio .NET 2003 with C# and using this environement to author and test xslt. Too bad Visual Studio won't validate xslt until you do the actual transformation in code. Oh well. Enjoy...
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Summary: Excellent introduction with lots of examples
Review: There isn't much to say, other than this book is a great choice for someone who knows xml and need to learn and use xslt quickly. I usually don't go for the "in 21 days" type books because I'm worried it might be too quick and novice like. However this title is well written, with each chapter going over another area of xslt in the proper sequence. There are plenty of examples to guide you when writing your own transformations. The index makes it easy to find what you need, but I'd recommend going chapter by chapter as quickly as possible if you are confident with programming in scripting/web languages. You can do the whole thing in 7 days if you like. At this point this book and the W3.org site that hosts the xml official specification documents (xsl, xslt, xpath) is all I need. FYI, I'm developing an application in Visual Studio .NET 2003 with C# and using this environement to author and test xslt. Too bad Visual Studio won't validate xslt until you do the actual transformation in code. Oh well. Enjoy...
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Summary: Excellent place to start
Review: This book works. It does, however, assume that you have a meaningful level of computer proficiency. This is probably a safe assumption for anyone intending to go spelunking in XML files and performing transformations on same.
To complete the book's lessons, you'll need to download and install one of the free XSLT parsing engines listed in the book. Alternatively, I used the jEdit free text browser and its associated XSLT plugin to run the examples.
I don't believe in assigning five stars, or I would have for this book.
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