like the w3schools xslt guides http://www.w3schools.com/xsl... because they are simple and cover fundamentals well - Mike Chelen

I would avoid. Simple things are simple but complex things are damn near impossible. - Todd Hoff

I'm with Todd on this one. But if you've gotta do XSLT: http://www.zvon.org/xxl... - Eric Johnson

Todd: what's an example of a task that is nearly impossible? always have to pick the right tool for each task, sometimes xslt is well suited and other times another approach is preferable - Mike Chelen

Mike when I wanted to make a simple report from an XML file it was quite easy and nice. But when I needed to do more complicated transforms that sliced and diced the XML in a lot of different ways it was just too hard to make it work. - Todd Hoff

Todd: in those cases, found that a programming language (either server or client side) is useful to manipulate the XML first, to prepare it for XSLT as the second step - Mike Chelen

my thing with these is, you do get the dummy version of stuff easily, but when you need the more advance stuff, they go from 101 "look. an xml. it is a .." to 701 skipping the steps in between. I know that what i want can be done beautifully with xml but am struggeling with setting up a working version. In the end I might end up programming that in a language not because it is better just because it so much less time consuming. :o( - Nicole Simon