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Books

XSLT: Programmer's Reference, Second Edition

Author: Michael H. Kay

Length: 992 pages

Publisher: Wrox; 2 edition (May 3, 2001)

ISBN: 0764543814

Michael Kay is a member of the W3C XSL Working Group and the developer of his own open-source XSLT processor, Saxon. He is also the author of the only book on this subject to have reached a second edition. This is a very big book, well laid out, and exhaustive, if sometimes exhausting, in detail, covering every possible base in the XSLT story.

http://www.amazon.com/XSLT-Programme.../dp/0764543814

XSLT

Author: Doug Tidwell

Length: 473 pages

Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (August 15, 2001)

ISBN: 0596000537

Doug Tidwell is a senior developer at IBM and a prominent evangelist for XML technologies generally. He is the author of several articles and tutorials on various aspects of XML at IBM's extensive XML developer site. This book is somewhat less comprehensive than Michael Kay's, but it covers the basics well, and offers some intriguing examples.

http://www.amazon.com/Xslt-Doug-Tidwell/dp/0596000537

Learning XML, Second Edition

Author: Erik T. Ray

Length: 432 pages

Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (September 22, 2003)

ISBN: 0596004206

As the title indicates, this is an overview of XML generally. Chapter 6 is devoted specifically to XSLT.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596004206

Digital

Websites

World Wide Web Consortium

The W3C homepage: http://www.w3.org/

The main XSL page: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/

The version 1.0 Recommendation for XSLT: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

Archive of public style (CSS and XSLT) discussions: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/

The version 1.0 Recommendation for XPath: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath

The World Wide Web Consortium is the body that publishes Recommendations for a number of web-based technologies, many of which become the de-facto standard.