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Only my opinion, sure to offend some, please others, and be only
coincidentally realted to Truth:
Sam's books are good for beginners, but pretty shallow. ORA books generally
are harder to learn from, but are much deeper and will serve you well as
reference works after learning the topic. Sort of like the difference
between a textbook for learning german and a german-english dictionary.
(Though most of what I know about reading german comes from
Langensheidt's?)
XHTML is merely HTML recast to fit "normal" XML/SGML. There are minor
differences in syntax, made generally for conformance. XSL is (once again,
only my opinion) a much-hyped version of CSS, aimed at XML/SGML. My
(admittedly incomplete) understanding of it is that it makes no sense to
say you "create documents in XSL" because XSL merely describes the
appearance of the document, not its content; the document itself resides
somewhere apart from XSL.
It's part of the compartmentalization of "presentation" versus "content."
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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