"Jan Eliasen" <eliasen@n...> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 06:57:58 -0800, "Dimitre Novatchev"
> <dimitren@t...> wrote:
>
>>Another book to complement Michael Kay's classic is Jeni Tennison's
>>"Beginning XSLT".
> I had been looking at that one :-)
Jeni has a talent to write for beginners. Dr. Kay's books are of the 
reference type, sometimes hard for beginners.

>
>>You need to make an informed decision whether you'd go for the XSLT1.0 (we
>>all hope this will soon be obsolete) or the XSLT 2.0/XPath2.0 books.
> Right... but... the two books mentioned now - are they XSLT 1.1 or
> 2.0?

 Both Dr. Kay and Jeni have books on XSLT 1.0 (XSLT 1.1 was never accepted 
as a standard!), and on XSLT 2.0.

In addition, Dr. Kay has a special dedicated book on XPath 2.0.

> And I am really not sure which version I will be needing. I will
> probably be using .NET framework 2.0 and its
> System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform class - what does it use?

It implements XSLT 1.0. AFAIK for the near future (Orcas) this is going to 
be XSLT 1.0.

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