XSLT Book Round-up
Saturday, June 17th, 2006Extensible Stylesheets Language (XSL) is just about my favorite these days. Although Michael Kay’s book is pretty good, Jeni Tennison’s Beginning XSLT 2.0, From Novice to Professional is indispensable.
XSLT uses a lot of very specific terms, and using the back-of-the-book index can be a little tricky if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for. So, for the benefit of you the Internet blog reader, I have compiled together my index margin notes.
Clip ‘n Save! Beginning XSLT 2.0 index add-on
| entry | page / reference |
|---|---|
| [] | see predicates |
| data-type conversion | 161 |
| less-than | see |
| lengths (of strings) | see string-length |
| lengths (of sequences) | see count() |
| messages | see xsl:message |
| output methods | 761 |
| paths | see also predicates |
| sequences, converting | 236 |
| stripping space | see normalize-space() |
| today | see current-date() |
| totals | see sum |
| trim | see normalize-space() |
| URL | see Uniform Resource Locator |
I also have read and liked O’Reilly’s older XSLT offerings, XSLT and XSLT Cookbook. I might be fonder of O’Reilly’s XSLT if I hadn’t spilled radiator fluid all over it, and subsequently worried that I was going to poison myself whenever I consulted it.