This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
We will learn how to use XSLT to transform structured documents in various ways. This course/challenge will move from the very basics to real-world problems involved in building a web tool that converts documents from word, html, latex and google docs to a structured xml format and then from there to interactive online and offline formats, print and ebook formats. At the end we will have challenges that relate to an existing open source projct, http://cnx.oerpub.org, housed at github, https://github.com/oerpub. We will have mentors that know XSLT already.
We are planning to use Jenni Tennison's "Beginning XSLT 2.0, From Novice to Professional" as a reference for the study group.
You will be able to find out everything you need without the book using resources listed below. But the book provides a guide for the order in which we will cover material and a handy narrative from a well-respected practitioner.
As we create learning tasks and challenges, look through some of these references and point others to things that are relevant and useful.
These need some investigation so that we know whether they are 1.0 or 2.0
OK -- I incorporated Rob's additional references and also fixed the claim that EVERYTHING IS FREE, MUST GO, ON SALE etc. Hopefully more accurate now.
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the first two aren't. :-)
Here are a few I found:
Dave Pawson's reference and quick ref. -
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/rev2/rev2.html
Neil Walsh's XPath 2.0 & XSLT 2.0 slides -
http://nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/extreme04/slides.pdf
Sample chapter from XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference -
http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/90/07645690/0764569090.pdf
Another quick ref. -
I added Max's reference to the reference list and also put in a note about how to tell what features are from 1.0 and which from 2.0 if you get the Jeni Tennison book.
IIRC, I barely used books while learning XSLT. The first tutorial/guide I used is somewhere still out there, but hidden behind obnoxious ads and deep in archive.org, so I'll send the link to the other primary tutorial I used to learn XSLT:
http://zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html
That tutorial is basically 71little samples/examples showing uses of XSLT 1.0's more important features one at a time. To this day, ZVON is where I continue to go to use their XSLT Reference, which has handy links covering all the (1.0) elements, functions, axes, and operators:
http://zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/
We did have Michael Kay's 1.0 book in the Connexions office, and I recall that I mostly used it for its handy visual representations of the axes used in XPATH (e.g. to remember the differences between preceding:: and preceding-sibling::).
