- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (30 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0596000537
- ISBN-13: 978-0596000530
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 489,121 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
John Prince, The Rational Edge, Jan 2001
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.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I needed to know a lot more about XSLT in a short space of time, so I bought this because it looked pretty good (the O'Reilly brand says quite a lot for starters). It is extremely good - well-structured, shorn of all the faffing-around you normally get in tutorial books for starters but still accessible to a newbie, and incidentally written with intelligence and panache. If you want to get in there with XSLT, this is the book to buy.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Much better than Wrox's offering, this O'Reilly book keeps up the good name by providing a very clear and easy to understand reference with good chapters for introducing concepts, and a small FAQ for commen issues.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
XSLT is a technology that takes a while to get used to; most people I've spoken to had no idea why their XSLT didn't work until I explained how its recursion mechanism worked, something I myself couldn't have understood without the groundwork presented in this book. Plenty of examples given, plus an excellent reference guide in the latter sections make this a very worthwhile purchase.
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Covers the bare basics
There are websites which will teach you as much as this book does for free. I would have expected a pretty comprehensive coverage of everything in XSLT in reasonable detail, but... Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2007 by David Woakes
Does not cover xslt 2 / xpath 2
The book is probably great but it doesn't cover the latest versions. There are significant changes, some of which make life a lot easier and so starting from here is probably not... Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2007 by Mr. T. Pigden
A difficult reference book, an unhelpful text book
This book is really not worth the money. The indexing is poor - it really is very difficult to find the answer to a specific question. Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2005 by "jean-pierre98"
Intermediate to advanced...
This book is the next step up for all those people who are quite comfortable with XML. Also a great book for those of us who want to take XML to its fullest potential. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2005 by MR S S BHACHU
The stating point for XSLT knowledge
Comprehensive coverage of XPath, control structures, sorting and grouping and more makes this book a must have. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2004 by Martin Anderson
A must for novice to intermediate XSLT developers.
If you are new to programming or new to XML, then you probably aren't ready for this book. However, if you have experience of both and want to learn about XSLT, then this book is a... Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2003 by Zares
O'Reilly do it again
I have always been a fan of O'Reilly book and have only found a couple not up to the normal high standard. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2001
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