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Michael, Thank you for your reply. I agree with your opinion. I found it a bit difficult to learn what apply-templates means by simply reading the tutorial online. The meaning is much deeper and requires an understanding of related XSLT elements like templates and XPath and how they correlate. I'm now reading Beginning XSLT2.0 and I also have your reference books on XSLT2.0 and XPath2.0. These books cover concepts in greater detail. Certain features of XSLT and XPath like <xsl:if or string functions such as starts-with(' are quicker to grasp because they are present in other programming languages. But certain other features like <xsl:templates are quite different from other programming languages. The concept is very different and that's why understanding things from scratch (takes time) but, makes programming more efficient and productive IMO. -Rashmi ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 2:26:28 AM Subject: RE: sort by xsl:if and then sort using templates? > > I started with these tutorials here, they give a good > foundation, but they're terse. > http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/ > http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/ > Personally, I find the w3schools information very useful for looking up something you one knew but had forgotten, but weak on explaining concepts when you're first starting. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ _____________________________________________________________________________ _______ Sponsored Link Online or Campus degree Associate's, Bachelor's, or Master's in less than one year.www.findtherightschool.com
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