- From: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:45:29 -0400
- To: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: Ralf Wastl <ralf.wastl@gmx.de>, site-comments@w3.org
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:19:46PM -0500, Ian B. Jacobs wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 11:58 -0500, Ralf Wastl wrote: >> Hello W3C team, >> >> I see the need for an XPATH and XSLT primer. Thank you for writing (and thanks, Ian, for adding me to the reply). >> In version 2.0 the complexity of both technologies has increased >> substantially. The tech reports (XPATH 2.0 and XSLT 2.0) are now >> rather unreadable to the non-expert. There are good and bad sides to having a primer. It can mean that the Working Group is not under pressure to write clear text. But writing a primer "after the fact" may be a good idea. For XPath 2 and XQuery 1, the main editor tried to include introductory text in each section that I think is very helpful, and it might be worth trying to read those introductions first and then going back to read the details of individual sections. I fear that the hardest part is that there are so many different specifications you have to read, and we should certainly publish a reader's guide to suggest how they fit together. I'd like to see us have more introductory texts and examples, but we are very pressed for staff resources. I second Ian's recommendation of the books by Mike Kay, although they are not as introductory as a primer might be. Liam -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ * http://www.fromoldbooks.org/
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