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Version	Location	Description	Submitted By
Printed	Page 13 5th line of example following 3rd paragraph	"<xsl:otherwise>small</xsl.when>" should read as follows: "<xsl:otherwise>small</xsl.otherwise>"	Anonymous
Printed	Page 22 First line of third bullet	An "if" or a "when" is missing between "more" and "they are".	Anonymous
Printed	Page 31 second comment in first code block	I think the second comment in the first code block on page 31 (8th line) should be changed from: <!-- If it still contains the search string the recursively process --> to: <!-- If it still contains the search string then recursively process -->	Anonymous
Printed	Page 101 Median Function ckbk:median	4th paragraph "On the other hand, if the number of nodes is odd,..." should be: "On the other hand, if the number of nodes is even,..."	Anonymous
Printed	Page 102 2nd paragraph	"The variance is then (sum-sq - sum2 / count) / count - 1" is formatted incorrectly and may cause readers to read the formula incorrectly. Solution: the "2" in "sum2" should be superscript in order to indicate "sum", defined previously, should be squared. Alternatively, write the sentence as: "(sum-sq - (sum*sum) / count) / count - 1"	Anonymous
Printed	Page 103 XSLT 2.0 ckbk:median function	XSLT 2.0 <xsl:function name="ckbk:median"> is incomplete. The last few lines of this function were not included. Possible correction: <xsl:function name="ckbk:median"> <xsl:param name="nodes" as="xs:double" /> <xsl:variable name="count" select="count($nodes)"/> <xsl:variable name="middle" select="ceiling($count div 2)"/> <xsl:variable name="sorted" as="xs:double"> <xsl:perform-sort select="$nodes"> <xsl:sort data-type="number"/> </xsl:perform-sort> </xsl:variable> <xsl:sequence select="if (ceiling($count mod 2)=0) then ($sorted[$middle] + $sorted[$middle - 1]) div 2 else $sorted[$middle]"/> </xsl:function>	Anonymous
Printed	Page 104 xsl:function ckbk:variance	Missing "(" in xsl:sequence/@select attribute in ckbk:variance function. Function definition should be: <xsl:function name="ckbk:variance" as="xs:double"> <xsl:param name="nodes" as="xs:double"/> <xsl:variable name="sum" select="sum($nodes)"/> <xsl:variable name="count" select="count($nodes)"/> <xsl:sequence select="if ($count lt 2) then 0 else (sum(for $i in $nodes return $i $i) - $sum * $sum) div ($count * $count - $count)"/> </xsl:function>	Anonymous
Printed	Page 153 Last paragraph	Incorrect reference. The paragraph says Recipe 4.8 But the referenced template is in 4.7	Anonymous
Printed	Page 192 first line on page	On the first line of page 192, "xsl:call-tempate" should be "xsl:call-template"	Anonymous
Printed	Page 205 last body paragraph	In the last body paragraph, I believe that instead of saying: "The child element xsl:matching-substring is used to process the substring that matches the regex and xsl:non-matching-substring is used to process the substrings that match the regex..." it should say something like: "The child element xsl:matching-substring is used to process the substring that matches the regex and xsl:non-matching-substring is used to process the substrings that don't match the regex." Also, in the fourth line, "parenthesis" should be "parentheses".	Anonymous
Printed	Page 209 top example	The <xsl:output-character> element has an attribute char in this example, but in the XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0 W3C, Candidate Recommendation 8 June 2006 (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-output-character) the corresponding attribute is called character.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 282 copy.xslt	This is actually an error in the files distributed online for version 2 of this book (Chapter 8, copy.xslt). It shows the select statement as select "@*, node()" That gives a parser error.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 298 4th para	The solution says to use "salesBySalesPerson.xml from Chapter 4", but the file is in Chapter 5.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 340 1st line of example 9-11	reviews> is missing the left angle bracket	Anonymous
Printed	Page 369 2nd line of 10.1 Solution code	line reads <?xml-stylesheet type="application/xml" href="chapter.xsl"?> The "application/xml" type breaks the example in IE7. "text/xsl" should be used instead, which works in both IE and Firefox.	Anonymous
Printed	Page 376 10.2 Solution	The reference to SalesBySalesPerson.xml should point to Chapter 5, not Chapter 2.	Scott Vanderbilt
Printed	Page 474 2nd paragraph	Third to last line of the paragraph, Chapter 12 should be Chapter 13	Mark Ensign
Printed	Page 689 code example	<xsl:call-template name="{$aTemple}"> ^^ should read <xsl:call-template name="{$aTempl}"> ^^	Prof. Dr. Dietmar Roesner