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Professional XSL Book
XML, which structures and describes data in text format, is taking over from proprietary data formats, but unlike HTML it has nothing to say about data representation--this is XSL's job. XSL has two parts, XLST and XSL-FO, and though the latter is little used as yet Professional XSL covers it thoroughly. Professional XSL starts with an awkward introduction to the declarative XLST language, its associated stylesheets, namespaces and the XPath language. As you need them all to do anything--and declarative programming experience is now rare--it makes for a brain aching beginning. Interestingly, you first learn how to create a default template which produces no output. After mastering XSLT grammar and syntax you move on to XML transformations using DOM and SAX (simple API for XML) with Java … read more...and VB, followed by the obligatory section on Microsoft's aberrant implementations of the XLS standard. The book even covers the various XML image standards--including W3C's SVG--and VoiceMail XML. Overall, this is probably the clearest exposition of XSL available. However, XSL suffers from a combination of creeping proprietary featuritus and incompatible "standards". In Professional XSL it comes across as powerful but messy, incomplete, poorly supported and immature. This is probably why XSL's most common use remains converting data to Web pages--though as the case studies show, it can potentially do far more. Despite the problems, the combination of relentless explanation coupled with code examples of every aspect of XSL discussed makes this a highly practical choice for the XSL programmer. --Steve PatientRead More read less...
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- 1861003579
- 9781861003577
- Kurt Cagle, Michael Corning, Jason Diamon, Teun Duynstee, Oli Gudmundsson, et al, Jason Diamond, Jirka Jirat, Mike Mason, Jon Pinnock, Paul Spencer, Jeff Tang, Paul Tchistopolskii, Jeni Tennison, Andrew Watt
- 1 April 2001
- WROX Press Ltd
- Paperback (Book)
- 800
- illustrated edition
- Illustrated
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