Any good XSLT tutorial/book/blog/site online? [closed]?

T U T O R I A L S: Some tutorials by Norman Walsh: On XSLT 1.0 On XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 Link to More tutorials B O O K S The classic books of Michael Kay on XSLT 1.0: XSLT: Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer) and on XSLT 2.0 / XPath 2.0 XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer) and XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference (Programmer to Programmer) : The books by Jeni Tennison: Beginning XSLT Beginning XSLT 2.0: From Novice to Professional XSLT and XPath On The Edge, Unlimited Edition And Sal Mangano's book: XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition Blogs: Michael Kay David Carlisle Jeni Tennison Dimitre Novatchev S I T E S xsl-list archives Dave Pawson's XSLT-FAQ FXSL -- the Functional Programming Library for XSLT.

1 All great resources. – Jon W Feb 26 '09 at 20:22 1 @Dimitre, could you kindly say, is there any significant difference between these two books? Amazon.com/dp/0764569090/?Tag=stackoverfl08-20 and amazon.com/dp/0470192747/?

Tag=stackoverfl08-20 – Flack Jan 7 '11 at 3:30 1 @Flack: I have both of them and both are good. The latter is better, because it also teaches you XPath 2.0. – Dimitre Novatchev Jan 7 '11 at 3:39 1 @Dimitre, I recently cut some spare time to look at 2.0 world and I've got the second one.

Read only a quarter of it, but Michael Kay is certainly "the Michael Kay" :) Guess, I would stick with "XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference". Hope it would be enough for starters.1.0 book is very good. – Flack Jan 7 '11 at 3:45 @Dimitre, also I've read Steven Holzner's book (don't think it's brilliant I must say).

Mangano is not less than a hero and I also liked "XPath and XPointer" by John E.Simpson. After your recommendations I also ordered "XSLT and XPath on the edge". Looking forward to it.

Great post. – Flack Jan 7 '11 at 3:49.

I have used these sites a lot and found them useful. ZVON, JenniTennison, dpawson.

I have always used zvon.org to figure out XSLT - yes it is just a reference site, but the 'xlab' is really good for figuring out how xslt works as it lets you try out examples quickly (and in my experience trial and error are a big part of learning xslt). Failing that, w3 schools always comes up with the goods...

The xlab is really nice. I like playing with it. The standard and documentation on some XSLT and XPATH features aren't very clear.

– stesch Dec 4 '08 at 9:20 No - it's a bit of an archane art as far as I can see! Best bet is to plow through and try it yourself, which is why the xlab thing is worth it! – Jennifer Dec 4 '08 at 12:41.

XSLT by Doug Tidwell, the author describes the book best in his passage, which I totally agree : " The best review I received for the first edition of this book began, "I will never read this book. " This was actually a positive review, as the reviewer went on to explain. "When I have a problem, I grab this book off the shelf, go to the index, and within five minutes I've found the answer to my problem.

Then I toss it back on the shelf. " That's exactly the kind of book I've tried to write. There are hundreds of stylesheets in this book, including examples for every XSLT element, function, and operator defined by XSLT and XPath.

The first chapters of the book are prose that explain how stylesheets work and what you need to learn to be productive with XSLT. Once you're comfortable with that material, you can use the rest of the book as a dictionary-style reference. " As for the the link, always apply for this faq, which is written by Michael Kay.

1 specially w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_examples. Asp try it yourself sections – imanabidi May 6 '11 at 18:15.

Link for TopXML now busted. – mlissner Jan 20 '11 at 16:41 Thanks - fixed it. – David Robbins Jan 21 '11 at 17:56.

Excellent holistic approach with simple analogy of mail-merge for the template mechanism. XSLT for Dummies by Richard Wagner. Also sample source code is available at the site.

Note: The dummies name is both a blessing and a curse as the word dummies has both a directness and a demeaning sense to it. I do feel all-thumbs when starting on a new language so this series is good place to start learning. Once I get a grip on the differences I like to concentrate more on the byline "And A Reference for the Rest of Us".

I found O'Reilly's xml.com to be very useful and in-depth. http://xml.com/pub/at/16 This site is almost like a blog and so the links to oldest articles are at the bottom of the page. Basics of XSLT are therefore towards the bottom.

Good luck :).

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