Re: Book recommendation (was: xsl:copy - change attrib

> Joerg,
> that worked perfect!
> how did you learn all this stuff?? For me xslt is the most difficult thing
> to learn... I cannot "click" my head to this way of programming.
> I have to realize that I've never read any book nor tried to learn it
> deepfully.
>
> Do you recommend me one? any pointers?
>
> thanks again for all your help!
> Matias

Do you really want to know this ;-)

Once upon the time, I think it was around November 2000, I had a little job
in my firm (I'm still a working student). They had no work for me and said,
that I should have a look at Cocoon 2 (less than alpha version) and XSLT. It
was very frustrating at the beginning. How do <xsl:apply-templates> and
<xsl:template> work? All tutorials or references I found were in English, no
one in my native language German. So it was more a test, trial and error.
Anytime I found www.vbxml.com. They gave me a very good overview with their
reference and their tutorial. Now I can recommend
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/index.html as reference too.
And I
found the mailing list XSLTalk at yahoo groups, but this mulberrytech list
is much more helpful for learning XSLT. Then there are a few special sites.
E.g. Jeni's site at http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/index.html or the FAQ
at http://www.dpawson.co.uk (at the moment offline because of too much
traffic). Very helpful can be the tutorial by Norman Walsh at
http://www.nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/xsl/index.html. And if you still need
more links, have a look at http://xsl.startkabel.nl/.
And me? In the meantime we built our first web application completely based
on Cocoon 2, XML, XSLT and Java (www.lofex.de). I bought my first book 3
months ago: Michael Kay "XSLT - 2nd edition". I don't use it very often, but
until now I found everything I want. Not few people on the list think that
this is the best book on XSLT, "the bible". I can't compare it to other
books, I can only say, that it is really very good.

Hope this helps,

Joerg



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