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I would comment however that the title should be "Xalan XSLT". The author does mention in the preface that he doesn't care which XSL tools you use so long as they are standards compliant ... but a lot of the examples use Xalan-specific extensions, without much guidance on using any other XSL processors. I would suggest that if he is encouraging use of any standards compliant XSL processor that his code and examples should also work with any compliant processor, not just Xalan. Don't get me wrong, it's a good book, but being that I am avoiding using Java and sticking with the C++ based XSL tools it was a little dissapointing to see so many exapmles that only use Java classes. I have sinced figured out how to do most of the stuff I wanted with libxml2 and libxslt via other resources on the web.