Article:		Architectural Style
Subject:		the power of XSLT
Date:		2001-08-17 06:18:16
From:		Michael Maron
XSLT is not an easy language to learn - mostly because it is close to Lisp rather than to well-known string processing languages like Perl. XSLT QUICKLY covers XPath, XML elements and attributes manipulation, programming issues like named templates (a.k.a. functions), variables, parameters, XSLT-specific constructs like key lookups, number and string manipulation. Readers will find _good_ ways to generate HTML, other markup and plain text from XML documents. I think this book is a must for software developers who want to write and test robust portable XSLT scripts. Simple, understandable and informative sample code is a true challenge for any computer book. I really appreciate samples from XSLT QUICKLY, they are easy for recycling in real-life applications. Also, like Oracle code samples, they are convenient to communicate development issues. Last, but not least, just in the preface we find an important clarification of XML/DTD/XSLT relationship, so readers will avoid a good deal of painful confusion. (That's my XSLT QUICKLY review at amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110111/qid=998054010/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/104-7305806-8251942)

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