June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
986 pages
27h 8m
English
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Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
I want to thank Jeni Tennison for being the lead reviewer of this edition. Her ability to see through to the essence of a problem and point out the simplest and most elegant way to solve it is astounding. I have blisters from smacking my forehead as I read her review comments, thinking at the time, “Of course! I should have seen that right away.” Jeni, thank you.
I also benefited from Priscilla Walmsley’s excellent review, especially in the appendixes that cover all the elements and functions in XSLT, XPath, and XQuery. The examples and terminology in those sections are far more useful and correct as a result.
A big thanks to Michael Kay for providing a copy of Saxon-SA to test the schema examples in the book. The entire XSLT community owes him an enormous debt for making the XSLT 2.0 spec robust, readable, and complete, and for writing the Saxon XSLT engine.
This book was written entirely in DocBook, a very powerful XML vocabulary for publishing. Two books have been invaluable as I’ve worked with DocBook. The first is O’Reilly’s DocBook: The Definitive Guide, written by Norm Walsh and Leonard Mueller (available online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/docbook/chapter/book/docbook.html). If you want to know anything about DocBook, this is the place to look. The open source community also maintains an extremely sophisticated set of XSLT stylesheets that transform DocBook into a variety of other formats. For help in using the DocBook XSL, Bob Stayton’s ...
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