Interesting find of the day: Jay Kimble's
XSLT Tutorials for the Uninitiated. I discovered it thanks to everyone's favorite Linkster,
Jason Hootenanny Haley, but I would have caught it later in my CodeBetter feed if Jason hadn't pointed it out. I usually see things in Jason's feed first, since he's in my MUST READ FIRST feed group. "What's in
your MUST READ FIRST group?"
Jay's post is Part One of I hope many tutorials on using XSLT and XML. Good examples in today's post on using XPath.
I've done a lot with XML over the years and yet feel like I have only about 20% of the XML chops I'd like to have. Okay, maybe 25%. It's not like I haven't tried. I read at least 3 books cover to cover on using XML in .NET, and I don't read that many technical books anymore.
XML is an interesting bird. I've always found XML concepts to be more difficult to grok than most other issues. And the nature of XML makes Googling for answers to XML issues a less productive exercise than Googling for, say, answers to ADO.NET problems.
Blogs are excellent vehicles to convey XML concepts and present a few samples in a quick hit-and-run format.
Ahh, right! The ampersand precedes the attribute and the expression is placed in brackets. Looks like //country[@region eq ‘Europe’]. Keep 'em coming, Jay. Anyone else whose doing anything similar, please let me know. I'm always looking for XML and XSLT Blog Post Tutorials.
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