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Re: Question about Michael Kay's book
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Question about Michael Kay's book
- From: Gary Frederick <gary dot frederick at jsoft dot com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 06:32:45 -0500
- Organization: Jefferson Software
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I'm Apache, Linux, Java mostly. I worked on a project with Cocoon at the
start of the year. I turn to the book all the time. A few days ago I was
fighting with xsl:sort and loosing. I looked it up in the index and
found that my error was a common one, fixed it and all was better :-)
It just touches on Cocoon. Look elsewhere if you want a book on that.
and then get a copy of his book anyway :-)
Gary
Richard Draucker wrote:
> Please, no offense intended, the siliconpublishing web site is MS and
> ShopFactory is a Windows only product. I appreciate that those in the MS
> world are sold on Mike's book. I'd like to know whether its equally valuable
> for those of us who live without MS, i.e. no IIS, no IEx, no Windows OS, etc.
> For example, how well does it cover Cocoon?
>
>
> On Wednesday 01 August 2001 01:04 am, you wrote:
>
>>So is the 2nd edition. The emphasis is on XSLT, but in terms of XSLT
>>products he presents a very comprehensive and balanced survey.
>>
>>I don't see how anyone working with XSLT could do without this book.
>>
>>Max
>>http://www.siliconpublishing.com
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of Tim Watts
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:17 PM
>>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>>Subject: RE: [xsl] Question about Michael Kay's book
>>
>>
>>Why don't you ask Mike himself! He subscribes to this list ;)
>>
>>Given that Michael also created a java parser (SAXON) and works for
>>Software AG (which is not affiliated with Microsoft) I would say that it
>>would have been safe to assume that it would be OS agnostic.
>>
>>And it is - at least the first version which I have.
>>
>>Tim Watts
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Richard
>>Draucker
>>Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2001 2:00 PM
>>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>>Subject: [xsl] Question about Michael Kay's book
>>
>>
>>I'm thinking of buying the book. I'm wondering, from those who already
>>have, whether it has an MS tilt or is entirely OS agnostic.
>>
>>--
>>Richard Draucker richard@protected-data.com
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>>
>>
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