Everything about XSLT

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: XSLTA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Chemical characterisation of the X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL): [Mg/Fe] and [Ca/Fe] abundancesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: XML in a nutshellThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL)Cited 101 times
5. Go sideways: Identity transformA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: XQueryA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL)

  Yan-Ping Chen, S. C. Trager, R. F. Peletier · 2014 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 101 citations

• The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL): Data Release 3

  K. Verro, S. C. Trager, R. F. Peletier · 2022 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 87 citations

• The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL): Data release 2

  A. Gonneau, M. Lyubenova, A. Lançon · 2020 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 79 citations

• Modelling simple stellar populations in the near-ultraviolet to near-infrared with the X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL)

  K. Verro, S. C. Trager, R. F. Peletier · 2022 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 60 citations

• Non-1/mbn power suppressed contributions to inclusive B → Xsl+l− decays

  Jiunn-Wei Chen, Gautam Rupak, Martin J. Savage · 1997 · Physics Letters B · 35 citations

• Effects of supersymmetric CP violating phases on B→Xsl+l− and ϵK

  Seungwon Baek, Pyungwon Ko · 1999 · Physics Letters B · 27 citations

• Remarks on security of AES and XSL technique

  S. Murphy, M.J.B. Robshaw · 2003 · Electronics Letters · 20 citations

• XSL: The X-Shooter Spectral Library

  Yanping Chen, Scott Trager, Reynier Peletier · 2011 · Journal of Physics: Conference Series · 16 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Chemical characterisation of the X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL): [Mg/Fe] and [Ca/Fe] abundances

  P. Santos-Peral, P. Sánchez-Blázquez, A. Vazdekis · 2023 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 6 citations

• STOCHASTIC XSL TRANSFORMATION METHOD

  Mikhail A. Ivanov, Kirill V. Agievets, Mikhail P. Grigoriev · 2026 · Bezopasnost informacionnyh tehnology · 0 citations

• On the existence of special nonlinear invariants for round functions of XSL-ciphers

  Dmitriy A. Burov · 2023 · Discrete Mathematics and Applications · 0 citations

• Линейные рассеивающие преобразования и нелинейные инварианты XSL-алгоритмов

  Dmitry Alexandrovich Burov · 2025 · Дискретная математика · 0 citations

• Персонализация графических конструкторских документов в ситуационно-ориентированной среде: использование XSL-трансформации

  Уфимский университет науки и технологий, Валерий Викторович МИРОНОВ, Артем Сергеевич ГУСАРЕНКО · 2025 · Systems Engineering and Information Technologies · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• XML in a nutshellElliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means · 2001
• XSLTDoug Tidwell · 2001
• The Man in the Cat-Hair SuitWilliam R. Greene · 2011
• DocBook XSLBob Stayton · 2003
• Mental ray for Maya, 3dsMax, and XSIBoaz Livny · 2007
• Definitive XSL-FOG. Ken Holman · 2003
• The Xml FilesIBM Redbooks · 2000
• XSLT programmer's referenceMichael R. Kay · 2000

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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