It's funny you mention this.



About a year ago I was busy setting something up: a Wiki about best 
practices and how to understand Haskell, XSLT and Prolog and several 
other non-imperative languages from the point of view of imperative 
languages. Mainly, because that's the background most people have (like 
Java, C, VB etc) and because the functional aspects of XSLT and the 
logic of Haskell and Prolog were giving me headaches.



I imagined other people struggling the same way when trying about. And 
somehow I figured that a lot of people eventually find the learning 
curve too steep and drop xslt or the likes altogether. Which is a pity. 
In my search for good "best practices" I didn't find any (though a very 
helpful Cookbook from O'Reilly got me a long way), so I started my own. 
My only problem back then: I didn't have enough experience to really 
write such a thing.



Now it is offline (iwhile it was online I never made it "googleable"). 
What I can do in the next week or so is putting online again what I had 
achieved so far and, with permission of course, merge some postings of 
xsl list and dpawson into best practices. The rest should be easy: I use 
WikiMedia software and all that interested people should do is help the 
site to become more useful, more informative, more correct and, 
definitely, bigger.



Now that I hear you talk about this, and now that I have some more 
experience with XSLT, I'd be most happy to take this initiative alive 
again. If anybody is interested, or even remotely enthusiastic about it, 
I know I definitely should ;)



Cheers to you all!
Abel

Phillip B Oldham wrote:



Hi all



In a recent thread, Andew Welch provided me with a couple of good design
rules/tips for working with xsl.

I was wondering whether these rules/tips have been logged anywhere for
prosperity? Is there a wiki somewhere where people can supply these
rules/tips, along with tutorials to help newbies get going? I personally
learned from w3schools and dpawson.co.uk, and while they're great
resources, they don't really capture those bits of knowledge you only
get from experience. For other languages there are lots of "best
practices" guides, but I've not come across anything for xsl.

So, if there is already such a resource, please can you point me in the
right direction? And if not, would anybody be willing to contribute to
one if I set it up?

Thanks guys!