Sams Teach Yourself Xslt in 21 Days Illustrated Edition

This is the best way I've found to learn XSLT. XSLT is difficult and this book gets you over the initial hurdles clearly and without undue hassle. I always like books or courses you can follow along the examples with by replicating them, and that's the way this book is structured. Every topic is illustrated with many progressive working examples that include the input xml, stylesheet and expected output, so you can type those in yourself, execute and debug them and get comprehensive hands-on experience.This book only covers XSLT 1.0, which was fine for me because my immediate application was MS and restricted to 1.0. I haven't learnt 2.0 yet but, having read this, I suspect learning 1.0 first is the way to go anyway. So if you're new to the subject I suggest don't let the fact this book is limited to 1.0 stop you buying it - learn 1.0 first and then buy something else later for 2.0. One at a time is hard enough.

I got this because I had to do some pretty advanced XSLT transforms for work. The online docs are sparse and hard to understand - bits of wisdom are scattered across the net more than with other subjects. This together with existing code and the usual online searching helped a lot.This book allowed me to refactor the project into reusable pieces and gave me a great understanding of how to do XSLT transforms. This is for XSLT 1.0 which worked for me because my project uses 1.0.

I just can't understand why there is no rating for the book and the book is priced so low. I am a VB developer of 6 yrs experience and am in the process of learning XML and all its related technologies. I tried to read books on XSLT by different authors and was frustrated by the advanced approach taken by different authors on the subject. I tried reading Jeni Tennison's XSLT. Didn't find it useful. Kay's XSLT has a lot of information but it was written as a reference. If you are new to XSLT read this book (not Kay's book) to get your feet wet and then with some knowledge read Kay's book. Never mind Tennison's book.

I had a task to finish related to XPATH but to get better picture on the project I needed a better understanding on XSL and I needed to understand really quickly. This book was very help full. I recommend this to anyone who is planning on learning on XSL. Only complain I have is that, Some sections I felt like its a manual rather than a book that explains the logic of it. But most part this is not the case.

XSLT is not easy. I worked through about 1/2 the book, and then just decided to convert my XSLT files to HTML and get on with my project.

No matter how well-written, this book is years out-of-date It is copyrighted 2002, and only covers XSLT and XPath 1.0.XSLT and XPath 2.0 were officially adopted several years ago (2007?), and some products started using it based on draft standards a couple of years before that. There are significant differences that I will need to apply in my XML transformations, so this book is going back. I wish I had not been satisfied enough by the positive reviews to not notice the copyright date nor lack of mention of XSLT 2.0.

I have scanned/read many XSLT books. Without a doubt, this is the best book to learn XSLT. I did not find any other books that starts with and explains the fundamentals of XSLT. Absolute GEM for starters.

The book is easy to understand. There are plenty of examples and the exercise help reinforce what you learnt. The two negatives are: it's not XSLT 2.0 and the printing and binding of the book is poor. It is still a good way to learn XSLT. It would be great to have a study group guide.

It helps you build a solid base. Topics are aligned in a way that lets you steadily build up your knowledge base starting right from the most fundamental part of applying templates.