SharePoint 2010 at Work

Chapter 4. Unlocking the Mysteries of the SharePoint Data View Web Part XSL Tags

Marc D. Anderson

The article I chose for inclusion in this book may seem at first glance to be an odd one. After all, it is not much more than an outline for a series of articles I did over four months at EndUserSharePoint.com (EUSP). However, this first article laid the foundation for that series, which was well read and which later became an ebook that we sold on the EUSP site. People continue to buy from me today. This is not about me advertising that, but about the fact that a single, simple article at EUSP, with the questions, comments, and feedback attached to it, can grow and stretch and can help a great many more people than its author expected.

Writing for EUSP has always been a pleasure. If you think about it, there is really no pressure—no more than writing on one’s own blog—yet one can help a great number of people.When Mark Miller first approached me to write for EUSP a few years ago, I felt honored, humbled, and secretly thrilled. EUSP had been a source of great content for me as a reader, and I felt like I had become a member of a little club of which I never thought I would be a member.

I have always really believed in education and collaboration. I am not the alpha dog type; I work best with people who can treat everyone on the team as equals. That does not mean that everyone is the same. No, far from it. It means that no one of us is better than the other simply by dint of some artificial ...