XSL Essentials

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Summary: One of the best written books
Review: From cover to cover, it was a smooth ride in understanding XSL at the intermediate level. Examples were percect. The author is one of the most lucid writers.

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Summary: thoughtfully consistent and well presented
Review: I might have been among the first hundreds people to own this book and I still have to use it; I even use it often now as XML-based applications are growing day by day. The book is an outstanding one when it comes to concision, to the fundamentals of XML/XSLT. The methOdology adopted is that of teaching by examples, going from simple examples progresssively through more complex examples that re-use the same simple examples but introduce new concepts that are to be explained within the new chapter. There is no comparable material in the litterature for the beginner and the intermediate learner of XSLT.

The physical weak point of the book is its bounding! The paste used to bind the book is wrong: a few pages were tore off from my book since the first week I started working with it; fortunately, I immediately get the book re-bounded by a professional. Otherwise, I might loose a few pages of a so excellent learning material: it used to be in my bookshelf for the last two years, but, since this year it is always on the top of my desk so that I thought I should write this review, my first at "Amazon.com".