Symphony.

XSLT Resources

If you want to start learning XSLT, or expand your knowledge of the language, these resources can help you.

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Beginner

• W3Schools Beginner XML Tutorial - Covers the basics of XML.
• W3Schools XPath Tutorial - A nice introduction to the most important parts of XSLT, covering syntax, operators, node types and axes.
• W3Schools Beginner XSLT Tutorial - Covers the basics of XSLT.
• XSLT and XPath Tutorial - 28 page tutorial covering the basics. Clear and understandable introduction, aimed at beginners.
• XSL Vocabulary
• A Really, Really, Really Good Introduction to XML - excerpted from the book No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP.
• Get XSL To Do Your Dirty Work - article on using XSLT in CMSes
• New to XML from IBM
• Hands on XSL - Another good overview from IBM.
• SelfHTML - A German XSLT-Element resource.

Intermediate

• Wikipedia XSL Transformations Page - Wikipedia's entry on XSL includes a long list of externalresources.
• XSLT FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions about XSLT.
• Jeni's XSLT Pages - XSLT Tutorials

Advanced

• W3Schools Advanced XML Tutorial - A look at namespaces, encoding and other topics.

References

• XSLT and XPath Quick Reference Card
• W3Schools XSLT Elements Reference - A useful reference for times when you can't remember what a particular XSLT element does.
• XML/XPath/XSLT Reference Cards from digilife.be

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NOTE: I pulled these resources from the old Symphony Wiki (on the archived Overture site). They are still relevant references and would be helpful to those who are trying to jump into the world of XSLT, XML, XPath.

Also, the CONCEPTS section of this site is helpful.

Don't forget the LEARN section of this website.

A couple more worth looking into:

• ZVON XSLT Reference
• Mozilla XSLT Reference

Cheers guys, documentation has been updated with these.

Many thanks for these listings guys, just discovered Symphony and need to get my head around xml and xslt etc.

Symphony has got me stoked, I’m a refugee from EE who has never felt comfortable with it. Appreciate this Forum and of course all the work and brains behind Symphony.

Thanks….

Barry

I’m a refugee from EE

lol… welcome!

Thanks Lewis!

I’m a refugee from EE

Welcome to the club. :-)

Also on this forum on overview of Bauhauses (and guests) tutorials.

Skylerrichter (http://skylerrichter.com/blog/learning-symphony-20-from-scratch-part-1/) when you read this give us a sign of life, we’d like to see your blog and tutorial back up …

Thanks Michael-e

That’s another great list of tutorials - Newnomad, the second link to skyler richter doesn’t seem to led to a site and Googling didn’t bring up anything specific sitewise - but the first link you gave is great and a load to get on with.

As a newbie to Symphony tutorials and documentation are vital, so I’d better get reading!

BMac: Yes, it’s a tragedy as Skyler Richters beginner tutorial was the only one I understood. It was gone a few days after I have read it. :-)

Newnomad: I’d appreciate if you could mark your URLs as actual links.

@phoque all fixed now (now idea how to get [] on azerty mac keyboards when traveling…;-)

now idea how to get [] on azerty mac keyboards when traveling

Thats what WMDs Hyperlink-Button is for. :-D

By the way: The Windowns @ (Alt+Q) triggers “Blockquote” so those nice “Twitter-style replies” are hard to do under Windows.

Hey y'all. I ran across this recent XML/XSLT/XPath tutorial VIDEO series, that I thought might be a help for beginners.

XML/XSLT/XPath Video Tutorial series

• Lesson One, http://www.newthinktank.com/2012/05/xml-video-tutorial/
• Lesson Two, http://www.newthinktank.com/2012/05/xml-video-tutorial-2/
• Lesson Three, http://www.newthinktank.com/2012/06/xml-video-tutorial-3/
• Lesson Four, http://www.newthinktank.com/2012/06/xml-video-tutorial-4/
• Lesson Five, http://www.newthinktank.com/2012/06/xml-video-tutorial-5/
• Lesson Six, http://www.newthinktank.com/2012/06/xml-video-tutorial-6/
• Lesson Seven, http://www.newthinktank.com/2012/06/xml-video-tutorial-7/

Great for users to understand XPath Axes...

the XPath Axes Visualizer

Great XSL and XPath Quick Reference Site

XSL and XPath Quick Reference

Handling Whitespace in XSLT

Tricky whitespace handling at XMLPlease.com