Wednesday, February 06, 2008

I have completed reading chapter 11 of the textbook.

I liked the way the author clearly described the power and limitations of both XML and XSLT.

I already have some job-related experience working with XML and SOAP. However, the author helped me to see the "big picture" and to better understand the role XML and XSLT play in intracompany and intercompany (B2B) integration.

It was also very interesting to read the detailed description of what happens behind the scene during XSLT transformation. I used to consider XSLT as a "black box" that works in mysterious ways and is capable of transforming XML document into a different XML document or into a document of a different format (HTML, PDF, etc.). Now I have a much better understanding of how XSLT really works including the concepts of "input tree" and "output tree".

Talking about the opportunities for improvement I would like to mention various examples of XML and XSLT files listed in the chapter. Those examples are not accompanied by clear and detailed explanation. It makes it very difficult for person whose knowledge of XML and XSLT is limited to understand the examples.

I was able to understand XML examples because I had prior experience working with XML. However, it was difficult to understand XSLT example without using additional literature.

 

2/6/2008 6:12:59 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
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