Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Page 25 outline on top of page |
A QName may have a prefix, such as xsl, which is separated by a colon from its local part or local name, as in stylesheet. A QName may also consist only of a local part. Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | Jan 25, 2016 | ||
Printed | Page 351 Column 2, near botom |
xls:exclude-result-prefixes |
Michael Fitzgerald |
May 26, 2011 | |
Printed | Page 3 2nd paragraph in the section How XSLT Works |
the url - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003272/learnxslt.zip |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 11 |
change: "...type the following line in a Unix shell window or ..." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 19 Warning/Caution paragraph |
Trying to load whitespace-pi.xml in firefox gives: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 38 first line in first code fragment in "Outputting Processing Instructions" |
<xsl:processing-instruction name="xml-stylesheet">href="new.css" Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 52 xalan example |
xalan name.xsl encoding.xsl |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 57 notalone.xsl example |
3rd line of example has "<xsl:output" in italics. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 67 7th line of program listing wg.xsl |
'lu {font-size: 16pt}' should be 'ul {font-size: 16pt}' Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 80 example output |
"\___namespace 'xmlns' = "urn:wyeast-net:invoice' |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 88 Below last para / before XML listing (also on page header on pg 89 & 90) |
The XML listing is precedeed with the wrong heading description (in italics) saying what it is. It should be 'Example 4-3. An XML list Candian provinces' not 'An XML list of contributors to XML 1.0' Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 93 Table 4.2 |
Parent Forward |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 103 8th Row of table 5-1 |
Description of floor(number) function is as follows: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 135 Result example at the bottom of the page |
xalan -i 1 price.xml frag.xsl |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 139 middle of the page |
"xalan europe.xsl sort.xsl" |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 139 |
change: "The plain text, alphabetized result tree..." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 145 1st paragraph |
"So far, you have sorted nodes alphabetically. You can also..." |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 152 1st paragraph of "The lang and case-order Attributes" |
"...is supposed to determine the language system environment." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 203 Last xalan example on page |
xalan -p kp 'es' un.xml kp.xsl |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 205 Last xalan example on page |
xalan -p cr 'Oregon' states.xml cross.xsl |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 217 Xalan example, top of page |
xalan africa.xsl comma.xsl |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 242 4th paragraph |
"Only instructions elements..." |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 253 Last paragraph before summary |
"...you will get the same result with excludeonlit.xsl that you did with exclude.lit." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2007 | |
Printed | Page 291 First paragraph of "Running an XSLT Processor from Java" section |
"Java Version 1.4...comes standard with JAXP." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2007 |