Re: XSL Beginner Resources [was XSL equivalent of SQL

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:13:06PM -0400, john-xsl-list wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:07:30 -0400, Francesco Barresi wrote
> > Yes, you can nest the [], like you writed before:
> > /one/two[child::three[@atribute='value']]
> > 
> > You can also do it in other ways, for example:
> > 
> > //three[parent::two and @attribute='value']
> > 
> > yes I know, this example is pretty stupid, but was only to show that
> > in Xpath you can match the same thing with dirrente expressions.
> 
> Thanks very much; I appreciate the examples.  
> 
> I am curious where people learn these things.  I feel like I am missing some 
> parts of the big XSL picture.  In other programming languages I generally 
> just read the API documentation, but think language (declarative?) is 
> completely unfamiliar to me.  

I went through the tutorial stuff on w3schools first, and then
went on to the zvon.org XSLT tutorials.  The zvon stuff is more
advanced and gives you a bit more thorough understanding of
xpath than the w3schools stuff... and of course, xpath is fundamental
to xslt...

> 
> What are some good web resources to start with?  I know of w3c, w3schools 
> and msdn, which can be pretty good for low-level stuff, but is there some 
> kind of cheat-sheet for the high-level things?  I don't have time for a 
> thick book.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    -John