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Title: XSLT by Doug Tidwell ISBN: 0-596-00053-7 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 August, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.13 (31 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but Could be Better
Comment: This is a good introduction to XSLT, and the book contains an extensive reference section which will certainly be helpful. The downside is the author's technique of trying to teach relatively simple concepts through the use of fairly complex examples. I prefer to have a concept explained and then see a fairly simple example. Not all of the chapters are this way. Some of the early ones are very well done, but I found myself just skimming through some of the chapters because I don't want to read 4 pages of code to understand one concept.
XSLT does have a farily verbose syntax, so the author cannot always reduce the size of the code listings. In those cases, it would be really nice if the 3 or 4 important lines of code were highlighted in some way to assist the reader.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book but probably there is a better one
Comment: This is in my opinion is a good book on XSLT. It teaches the basics and then some advanced stuff as well. I especially liked the XSLT reference (the latter half of
the book) with examples of how to use the XSLT features, functions etc.
I picked it up because i'm preparing for the IBM xml exam and this is listed as a reference in the IBM web site.
The only complaint i have is that the book lists the entire code and they run for pages! :-(. I find it to be very distracting.
It was better to just show a few code snippets to highlight a partcular point and the reader c'd anyway use the code listing available in downloadable format in the oreilly web site.
Hope the author will cover more meaty stuff in the 2nd edition probably and avoid such big code listings.
I read the freely downloadable chapters of "XSLT quickly" by Bob Ducharme and found it to be excellent.
Unfortunately that book is'nt available here in India!
I would recommend that book over this one for people looking for a good introduction to XSLT. It's so crisp! and has been written for people who have been programming before.
Also check out XSLT and XPATh on edge..by Jeni tennison. wow i liked it. It assumes knowledge of XSLT though (ateast the basics) and deals with various practical usage of XSLT.
I have read 3 chapters as of now and found it to be very well written and useful.
If you are a java programmer looking to XSLT, i would recommend the following:
XSLT Quickly
XSLT and XPath on the edge
Java and XSLT
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing, not well organized
Comment: 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?
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Title: XSLT Cookbook by Sal Mangano ISBN: 0596003722 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: XML Schema by Eric van der Vlist ISBN: 0596002521 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means ISBN: 0596002920 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The XML Companion (3rd Edition) by Neil Bradley ISBN: 0201770598 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 12 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: XPath and XPointer by John E. Simpson ISBN: 0596002912 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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