I found this book far more helpful than Learning XSLT however I have to agree with the comment that the amount of code listed gets in the way some times.
For example, I was interested in finding out how to use extensions in Xalan, which is covered, but the example went off to describe some Javascript featured in the XSL or document to be tranformed which was not related to this subject. I believe the information I needed was in there somewhere, but I eventually looked it up on Google and went to an IBM page on the subject to get some clarity.
I do appreciate having full examples in places. I find many programmers err on the other side of things and show you an example without context which is usually not terribly helpful either.
It wasn't just me by the way, the person I was working with saw the Javascript mentioned and immediately said "No, we're working with Java, not Javascript, this isn't what we want." I had to get them to read several pages before they agreed this section covered what I claimed it covered.
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