3.2. DSSSL

• The DSSSL standard is available for download, as front matter/TOC (pdf/ps) and body (pdf/ps). James Clark has also made available a version in HTML.
• The SIL DSSSL page
• DSSSL documentation project. This is still growing, but there's already a fair amount of useful stuff, including the outline of a DSSSL Handbook (little more than that as yet, but it appears to be growing, and looks as if it will be useful when it's more nearly complete).
• JadeTeX links. Also JadeTeX at TUG
• James Clark's DSSSL and Jade pages.
• Jon Bosak's collection of DSSSL materials
• Norm Walsh's SGML pages cover DSSSL
• Others: DSSSL-online; a `tiny tutorial' on how to get the sp/jade/jadetex suite working in a basic way' DSSSL Syntax Summary Index (rather dense, but probably ultimately useful).

Tutorial introductions (in order)

• Paul Prescod. Very clear (even if it sometimes has overtones of Play School about it `now let's try to...'); also pretty compact, going from assuming nothing to non-trivial programming in a fairly short time.
• Daniel M. Germán. More advanced, but also more bitty.
• A tutorial on DSSSL's Core Expression Language is really more of a quick reference than a tutorial, but is useful for that. At the same place, the DSSSL cookbook is just that - a collection of snatches of code to do useful things.
• These concentrate (rationally) on producing print documents. Jade has extensions which allow it to produce SGML (see Jade's `Using Jade for SGML transformations'. Examples: a simple example of the infrastructure required
• For more complicated examples of DSSSL stylesheets, see the DocBook to HTML stylesheets by Mark Burton and Norm Walsh
• DSSSL is based on the language Scheme, for which the Scheme reference manual can act as a high-speed tutorial. See also Scheme at Yahoo
• After that, you're going to have to read the standard (which is pretty clearly written, in fact).