{"id":29,"date":"2006-03-16T22:34:59","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T06:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/16\/feedback-on-my-xslt-booklet\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:45:17","slug":"feedback-on-my-xslt-booklet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/2006\/03\/16\/feedback-on-my-xslt-booklet\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback on my XSLT booklet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/catalog\/xsltpr\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/catalog\/covers\/xsltpr.s.gif\" alt=\"XSLT 1.0 Pocket Reference\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Priscilla Walmsley was kind enough to point me to a post from Jim Garrison on comp.text.xml regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/catalog\/xsltpr\/\">XSLT 1.0 Pocket Reference<\/a>, which I poured my heart and soul into last year. This was actually the first feedback I&#8217;ve gotten from anyone who has used the book. Needless to say, it made my day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, a big thank you to Evan Lenz for the O&#8217;Reilly XSLT 1.0 Pocket Reference. This is an amazing feat of distilling all you really need to know about XSL into 170 pocket-sized pages.  What&#8217;s more amazing is that an experienced developer with little prior XML\/XSL experience can actually learn enough from this little gem to write competent XSL.<\/p>\n<p>A reference manual AND quality tutorial in 1\/20th the space (and dead trees) of most tech books these days.  I&#8217;ve recommended this to several of my colleagues who had to get up to speed on XSL for a new project, and the reaction from them is the same as mine&#8230;. This was EXACTLY what I needed.<\/p>\n<p>So, Evan, when is the version for XSL 2.0 coming out? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I already told Jim, such is not in the works right now, but if it were, I hope he wouldn&#8217;t hold me to keeping it within 170 pages again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priscilla Walmsley was kind enough to point me to a post from Jim Garrison on comp.text.xml regarding XSLT 1.0 Pocket Reference, which I poured my heart and soul into last year. This was actually the first feedback I&#8217;ve gotten from anyone who has used the book. Needless to say, it made my day: First, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evanlenz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}