Course References

Basic reference textbook

We are planning to use Jenni Tennison's "Beginning XSLT 2.0, From Novice to Professional" as a reference for the study group. 

• 1.0 / 2.0 Note: For those of you that know 1.0 and want to learn 2.0 features, the book does NOT distinguish them in the text,  but read the Introduction - 'How this book is structured'. Those brief chapter introductions specifically note what will be new for 1.0 folks to learn. Also, the reference at the back of the book - Appendix B: XSLT Quick Reference - says "From 1.0" or "From 2.0" at the bottom of each entry.

Some other references recommended by mentors

As we create learning tasks and challenges, I am hoping that folks will look through some of these references and point others to things that are relevant and useful. 

• Mike Kay's book, XSLT-2-0-Programmers-Reference-Programmer covers much the same ground, but it aimed at the professional programmer.
• For even deeper details, XSLT-XPath-Edge-Professional-Mindware
• W3School : http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/ -- This has an online XSLT editor that shows results! Could be a handy place to find exercises or ideas for exercises. Might be a handy tool to add to the tools page.

• ZVON: http://zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html

  That tutorial is basically 71 little samples/examples showing uses of XSLT 1.0's more important features one at a time. ZVON has handy links covering all the (1.0) elements, functions, axes, and operators:

  http://zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/

Some references that need further investigation

These need some investigation so that we know whether they are 1.0 or 2.0

• David Pawson's XSLT FAQ <http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/>
• Stackoverlfow recommendations