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Dewey Decimal Number: 005 EAN: 9781861003577 Edition: 1st ISBN: 1861003579 Label: Wrox Press Manufacturer: Wrox Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 800 Publication Date: 2001-06 Publisher: Wrox Press Studio: Wrox Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Professional XSL takes an applied, tutorial-style approach to teaching the core fundamentals of the XSLT, XPath and XSL-FO specifications. You'll learn how to create well structured and modularized stylesheets to generate your required output, how to change, filter, and sort data, and how to incorporate other content for presentation purposes. XML is now the established standard for platform-neutral data storage and exchange, separating content from presentation. Its popularity is due to the flexibility of the language and the ability to reuse the data in a variety of ways. XSL is a key technology for working with XML, and is comprised of two parts: XSLT is the official language for transforming XML from one format to another, whether for restructuring/selectively processing the data or presenting the data for display; XSL-FO is a proposed vocabulary for incorporating information concerning how the document should be arranged for presentation. A related standard, XPath, is the language for addressing specific parts of an XML document. Average Rating:
 Rating: - I need exmple source code!I bought the book,but I can't download source code from www.wrox.com now ,anyone can help me? My email is alpliu@sina.com,can somebody email me the exmple source code?Thanks a lot! Rating:  - Not well layed out, poor flowIt seems this book was put together in a hurry. Lots of authors contributing to the portions they may understand or use. They don't mention who wrote what but as the reader moves from chapter to chapter, the language and writing style changes dramatically. I would not recommend this book to others. Rating: - Seriously lacking in example explanationsTo be fair, this is not an easy subject. However, they give a short chapter on XPath, and then thrust you into XSLT. That would not be bad IF, during their weak XSLT explanations they would also explain the XPath in their examples. Not only are the explanations weak, but the writing style of the authors is not clear and intuitive. Don't get me wrong, they do explain them, but not clearly. I have been reading Wrox books for several years now, I have always learned a lot from them, but ... Read More Rating:  - This is book is a god-send!I'm a developer currently working on a large-scale multi-platform project, which uses XML and XSL extensively. The book seems to cover all aspects of XSL in great depth, with plenty of code to illustrate how to apply the techniques the authors introduce. As a programmer used to more traditional procedural languages, I hadn't realised the paradigm shift that working with XSL entails, but this book has kick-started my enthusiasm for XSL, and has shown me what it can really do. The stylesheets ... Read More Rating: - wrong book nameOn page 122 the author say:"XSLT 1.1 changes recommends that the node-set() be deprecated" Then, the author begin to use node-set() to make some long examples to explain several important concept like "param", "variable", "include", "import"... I do not understand why. Many important( if not most ) examples are depends on "MSXML" own extensition. I would suggest the book should be named as "Professional MSXML". Of course it is a good book if you prefer "MSXML". 
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