A book I really use regularly

I've been programming in a system that uses XSLT for reporting for about three years now. This is the book I actually use. It's getting beat-up and battered and has a couple of pages bookmarked - mostly in Chapter 3. I found the initial Hello World examples - where the same XML is processed for text, SVG, Java, and VRML - to be a really fascinating read.

The core functional programming block in Chapter 4 is worth the skull-sweat it takes to work through it. One useful feature is a number of examples that don't work - that seem right but are misleading.

On the downside, the index is fairly poor, but that's typical.

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