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ISBN: 0596009747

ISBN13: 9780596009748

XSLT Cookbook

Name: Lots of &quot;R &amp; D&quot; material here...
Item: XSLT Cookbook
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By Sal Mangano

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Book Overview

Forget those funky robot toys that were all the rage in the '80s, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformations) is the ultimate transformer. This powerful language is expert at transforming XML documents into PDF files, HTML documents, JPEG files--virtually anything your heart desires. As useful as XSLT is, though, most people have a difficult time learning its many peculiarities. And now Version 2.0, while elegant and powerful, has only added to the confusion.

XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition wants to set the record straight. It helps you sharpen your programming skills and overall understanding of XSLT through a collection of detailed recipes. Each recipe breaks down a specific problem into manageable chunks, giving you an easy-to-grasp roadmap for integrating XSLT with your data and applications. No other XSLT book around employs this practical problem-solution-discussion format.

In addition to offering code recipes for solving everyday problems with XSLT 1.0, this new edition shows you how to leverage the improvements found in XSLT 2.0, such as how to simplify the string manipulation and date/time conversion processes. The book also covers XPath 2.0, a critical companion standard, as well as topics ranging from basic transformations to complex sorting and linking. It even explores extension functions on a variety of different XSLT processors and shows ways to combine multiple documents using XSLT. Code examples add a real-world dimension to each technique.

Whether you're just starting out in XSLT or looking for advanced techniques, you'll find the level of information you need in XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0596009747

ISBN13:9780596009748

Release Date:January 2006

Publisher:O'Reilly Media

Length:774 Pages

Weight:3.00 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 7.0" x 9.2"

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Computers Computers & Technology Data in the Enterprise Education & Reference Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) Languages & Tools Network Programming Networking Networks, Protocols & APIs Software Software Design, Testing & Engineering Software Development XML

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Rated 5 stars
Lots of "R & D" material here...

By Thriftbooks.com User, January 16, 2006

[Review of 2nd edition] One of my favorite development methodologies is "R & D"... "Rob & Duplicate". And an important source of inspiration is often the O'Reilly Cookbook series. For XSLT, you now have an up-to-date wealth of samples to pull from... XSLT Cookbook (2nd Edition) by Sal Mangano. Contents: XPath; Strings; Numbers and Math; Dates and Times; Selecting and Traversing; Exploiting XSLT 2.0; XML to Text; XML...

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Rated 5 stars
Great book for people who know XSLT

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 10, 2003

Some other reviews have said that this is not a book for beginners, which is true. You need to understand the mechanics of XSLT first to get the most out of the book. That's not the real value, however. This book is great because it shows you how to write XSLT well. This is a value that a simple reference will not provide.

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Rated 5 stars
Great reference for XSLT solutions

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 25, 2003

The XSLT Cookbook offers more than one hundred code solutions to common XSLT problems. The covered topics range from string operations, handling dates and numbers to converting xml to various formats, like text, HTML or SVG. The author also included some speciality solutions for working with Visio and Excel documents or generating XTM Topic Maps. The last chapters of the book cover some more advanced topic, like extending...

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Rated 5 stars
Good XSLT reference for non-beginners

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 9, 2003

The book is an excellent practical hands-on reference for creating solutions in the XML-XSL Transformation domain. It covers areas from simple string operations to SVG generation to extending XSLT with Perl, JavaScript and Java. The author Sal Mangano has good working examples with detailed descriptions of the code. This makes experimenting with new code relatively painless. Being an experienced XSLT developer I found the...

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Rated 5 stars
Round out your XSLT knowledge with this gem

By Thriftbooks.com User, December 26, 2002

I own both the XSLT Programmers Reference by M. Kay and XSLT by D. Tidwell. Both these books helped me learn XSLT; however, I am quite sure Mangano's book will help me master it. To be fair, I have only read the SVG chapter in detail but it provided such a treasure trove of immediately useful solutions that it alone was worth the price of the book. Sal Mangano writes in a no nonsense style that gets to the heart of what an...

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