RE: XSL Beginner Resources [was XSL equivalent of SQL

The two resources I use all the time are:

1) the "bible" (Michael Kay's XSLT Programmer's Reference)
2) the FAQ (Dave Pawson's http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/index.html)

I also keep around a printed copy of the mini-references at Mullberry Tech
site:
http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/index.html

-- Raffaele

-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Barresi [mailto:kywocs@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:35 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  XSL Beginner Resources [was XSL equivalent of SQL having]

Hi,
I had the same problem, I couldn't find any really good resource about
XSL; so I decided that the best, like always, was to get some good
books, and so I did.
I got XSLT by Michiel van Otegem in italian, this was a good
introduction, it's a tutorial book, one of those that you read only
once. Then, when I understud the idea of XSLT y I got two more book,
that i refer to always:
XSLT Cookbook by Sal Mangano, O'Reilly.
Essential XML Quick Reference by Aaron Skonnard and Martin Gudgin.
This lats one is a most have.

Bye
Francesco.


On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:13:06 -0400, john-xsl-list
<john-xsl-list@xxxxxxxx> 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.
> 
> 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
> 
> 



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