Re: essential reading

[Jason Lane]

On 1 Apr 2004, at 14:31, Derek Hohls wrote:

I'd second those two choices:
XSLT 2nd Edition
Cocoon Developer's  Handbook
Pretty much everything else you can get off the
web;
Yup, it's all out there. If you're looking for some good hands on XSLT 
examples here's a resource I've found useful:

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html

Also there is always:

http://www.w3.org

its more up-to-date even though somewhat
fragmented.
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On 1 Apr 2004, at 14:15, jacques couzteau wrote:

hello,

with respect to the wealth of documentaion material i am seeking some

advice on what books or online articles/docs/HowTo are essential to
read in order to implement something like an online-mag that reads
from a posgreSQL-db and static text and runs in tomcat.
My goal is to get a quickstart at developing my own wepapps using
XSLT
and a posgreSQL and get the important stuff right from the
beginning.
I like hands-on-examples and working apps that i can derive my own
apps from and i want solutions quickly. I'm a programmer with
scientific background and i know Perl, C/C++, Java. I'm quite fond of

the Perl Cookbook. Is the XSLT-Cookbook good for me?

So far i had a glance of the online cocoon-documentation, the the
oreilly-XML-Bookshelf, some articles at XML.com and the apache
definitive guide. I'm willing to buy a book, but from a book that i
buy i expect to use it a lot.
What about the following books:
I've got XSLT 2nd Edition (Michael Kay - Wrox: ISBN 1-861005-06-7)
which is a fantastic reference.
Also I've got Cocoon: Building XML Applications and Cocoon Developer's

Hanbook in my collection, there both good, I must say the Cocoon
Developer's Hanbook is by far a better, more detailed work.
+XSLT Cookbook by Sal Mangano
+Cocoon 2 Programming (Bill Brogden, Conrad D'Cruz, Mark Gaither)
+Cocoon Developer's Hanbook (by Lajos Moczar (Author), Jeremy Aston)
+Cocoon: Building XML Applications by Carsten Ziegeler (Author),
Matthew Langham (Author)
+Cocoon 2 Programming: Web Publishing with XML and Java
The wealth of material is killing. I don't know where to start?

Thank you for suggestions.

jacques
Jason Lane

Developer
Root10 developments
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