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XSLT: Programmer's Reference, Second Edition
Author: Michael H. Kay
Length: 992 pages
Publisher: Wrox; 2 edition (May 3, 2001)
ISBN: 0764543814
Michael Kay is a member of the W3C XSL Working Group and the developer of his own open-source XSLT processor, Saxon. He is also the author of the only book on this subject to have reached a second edition. This is a very big book, well laid out, and exhaustive, if sometimes exhausting, in detail, covering every possible base in the XSLT story.

http://www.amazon.com/XSLT-Programme.../dp/0764543814

XSLT
Author: Doug Tidwell
Length: 473 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (August 15, 2001)
ISBN: 0596000537
Doug Tidwell is a senior developer at IBM and a prominent evangelist for XML technologies generally. He is the author of several articles and tutorials on various aspects of XML at IBM's extensive XML developer site. This book is somewhat less comprehensive than Michael Kay's, but it covers the basics well, and offers some intriguing examples.

http://www.amazon.com/Xslt-Doug-Tidwell/dp/0596000537

Learning XML, Second Edition
Author: Erik T. Ray
Length: 432 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 2 edition (September 22, 2003)
ISBN: 0596004206
As the title indicates, this is an overview of XML generally. Chapter 6 is devoted specifically to XSLT.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596004206

Digital

Websites

World Wide Web Consortium
The W3C homepage: http://www.w3.org/
The main XSL page: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
The version 1.0 Recommendation for XSLT: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
Archive of public style (CSS and XSLT) discussions: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/
The version 1.0 Recommendation for XPath: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
The World Wide Web Consortium is the body that publishes Recommendations for a number of web-based technologies, many of which become the de-facto standard.

Articles

Hands-on XSL
Author: Don R. Day
Location: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...-hands-on-xsl/
Understanding XSLT
Author: Jay Greenspan
Location: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/...l?tw=authoring
What is XSLT?
Author: G. Ken Holman
Location: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/08/holman/index.html

Tutorials/Examples

Zvon
XSL Programmers: http://www.zvon.org/o_html/group_xsl.html
Jeni's XSLT Pages
Index: http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/
XMLPitstop.com
StyleSheet Center: http://www.xmlpitstop.com/Default.asp?DataType=SSC
XSL Tutorial
Index: http://www.nwalsh.com/docs/tutorials/xsl/

Other

Cover Pages
Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL): http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xsl.html
XSL-List
Subscribe: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/
Archives: http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/
The XSL-List is a very active general mailing list, hosted by Mulberry Technologies
mozilla.dev.tech.xslt
Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.xslt
This is a newsgroup that discusses Netscape-specific XSLT issues.