[xsl] XSLT, Chapter 17 of Processig XML with Java, has been posted

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>]

I'm pleased to announce that XSLT, Chapter 17 of Processing XML with 
Java has been posted on Cafe con Leche in the usual location:

http://cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch17.html

This chapter includes three major sections:

*   A brief XSLT tutorial
*   Detailed discussion of the TrAX API for using XSLT with Java
*   Writing XSLT extension functions and elements in Java

I'm particularly pleased with the first section. I've written several 
XSLT tutorials before, but this one is radically different. It 
considers XSLT primarily as a functional programming language and 
focuses on the ability to call templates recursively. I doubt there's 
anything here that hasn't been discovered or invented by someone 
somewhere before, but certainly I had never seen some of the things 
you could do with XSLT until I invented them for this chapter. I 
wouldn't recommend this as your first exposure to XSLT (for that see 
http://cafeconleche.org/books/biblegold/chapters/ch17.html ) but if 
you're already familiar with XSLT basics, this chapter may show you a 
few new tricks.
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