About the Examples

As a writer, I have labored for about 20 years under the assumption that we all learn best by doing. That's why this book is heavily laden with hands-on examples. All the examples in this book, except for an occasional fragment, are available for download from http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnxslt/. The examples are organized into directories that are associated with each of the chapters, as in examples/ch01, examples/ch02, examples/ch03, and so on. The XML documents and XSLT stylesheets used in the examples are intentionally simple so as to not obscure the principles they teach with too much distracting markup. These working examples will provide models for you to do about anything you can do with XSLT.