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XSLT, Second Edition--New from O'Reilly: Mastering XML Transformations

July 16, 2008

Sebastopol, CA—XML went from a strange new idea to entrenched buzzword in record time. Its flexibility as a language for presenting structured data made it the lingua franca for sending data across the web. Early adopters used a number of programming interfaces, such as the Document Object Model (DOM) and the Simple API for XML (SAX) to parse and process it, but as XML became mainstream, it was clear that the average web user couldn't be expected to hack Java, VB, Perl, or Python code simply to make sense of XML documents. "What was needed was a flexible, powerful, yet relatively simple language capable of processing XML," says . Please include your delivery address and contact information.

is a senior programmer at IBM. He has more than a sixth of a century of programming experience, and has been working with markup languages for more than a decade. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has taught XML classes around the world.

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