Re: [docbook-apps] learning more

2012-05-01 Thread David Cramer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I also like Michael Kay's book. It's especially good if you want a thorough treatment. This page on the DocBook wiki lists some resources and other books: http://wiki.docbook.org/LearningDocBook I also agree that finding an xslt project and tackling

Re: [docbook-apps] learning more

2012-04-30 Thread Richard Hamilton
Tim, I use Michael Kay's XSLT 2.0 book. It has some flaws (like being hard to navigate; both because the headers don't contain enough information and because some basic concepts are spread around), but it has some extensive examples and a lot of detail. It also does a pretty good job of identif

RE: [docbook-apps] learning more

2012-04-30 Thread Jason Zech
I found Sam's 21 Days book on XSLT to be a good beginner's course on how it all works. I didn't finish it, but I believe it only covers 1.0. -Original Message- From: Tim Arnold [mailto:jtim.arn...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 2:35 PM To: DocBook Apps Subject

[docbook-apps] learning more

2012-04-30 Thread Tim Arnold
hi, I'm using DocBook 5 and creating HTML using the stylesheets with a few customizations of my own. I understand xslt a bit, but I'm just a beginner. If my goal is to comfortably understand the docbook stylesheets (particularly the upcoming xslt2.0 version), what can I do to learn more? I am alre