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Informationen zum Autor Michael Fitzgerald is a freelance writer and trainer specializing in XML and related technologies. He is the author of Building B2B Applications with XML and XSL Essentials, both published by John Wiley & Sons, and has published several articles for XML.com on the O'Reilly Network. Klappentext XSLT is a powerful language for transforming XML documents into something else. That something else can be an HTML document! another XML document! a Portable Document Format (PDF) file! a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file! a Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) file! Java code! or a number of other things. You write an XSLT stylesheet to define the rules for transforming an XML document! and the XSLT processor does the work.As useful as XSLT is! its peculiar characteristics make it a difficult language in which to get started. In fact! newcomers are often a little dazed on first contact. Learning XSLT offers a hands-on introduction to help them get up to speed with XSLT quickly. The book will help web developers and designers understand this powerful but often mystifying template-driven and functional-styled language! getting them over the many differences between XSLT and the more conventional programming languages.Learning XSLT moves smoothly from the simple to complex! illustrating all aspects of XSLT 1.0 through step-by-step examples that you'll practice as you work through the book. Thorough in its coverage of the language! the book makes few assumptions about what you may already know. You'll learn about XSLT's template-based syntax! how XSLT templates work with each other! and gain an understanding of XSLT variables. Learning XSLT also explains how the XML Path Language (XPath) is used by XSLT and provides a glimpse of what the future holds for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0.The ability to transform one XML vocabulary to another is fundamental to exploiting the power of XML. Learning XSLT is a carefully paced! example-rich introduction to XSLT that will have you understanding and using XSLT on your own in no time. Zusammenfassung This work illustrates all aspects of XSLT 1.0 through step-by-step examples. The reader should learn about XSLT's template-based syntax! how XSLT templates work with each other! and gain an understanding of XSLT variables. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1: Transforming Documents with XSLT Chapter 2: Building New Documents with XSLT Chapter 3: Controlling Output Chapter 4: Traversing the Tree Chapter 5: XPath and XSLT Functions Chapter 6: Copying Nodes Chapter 7: Using Variables and Parameters Chapter 8: Sorting Things Out Chapter 9: Numbering Lists Chapter 10: Templates Chapter 11: Using Keys Chapter 12: Conditional Processing Chapter 13: Working with Multiple Documents Chapter 14: Alternative Stylesheets Chapter 15: Extensions Chapter 16: XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Chapter 17: Writing an XSLT ProcessorInterface Chapter 18: Parting Words Appendix A: XSLT Processors Glossary Colophon ...
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Transforming Documents with XSLT
Chapter 2: Building New Documents with XSLT
Chapter 3: Controlling Output
Chapter 4: Traversing the Tree
Chapter 5: XPath and XSLT Functions
Chapter 6: Copying Nodes
Chapter 7: Using Variables and Parameters
Chapter 8: Sorting Things Out
Chapter 9: Numbering Lists
Chapter 10: Templates
Chapter 11: Using Keys
Chapter 12: Conditional Processing
Chapter 13: Working with Multiple Documents
Chapter 14: Alternative Stylesheets
Chapter 15: Extensions
Chapter 16: XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0
Chapter 17: Writing an XSLT ProcessorInterface
Chapter 18: Parting Words
Appendix A: XSLT Processors
Glossary
Colophon
About the author
Michael Fitzgerald is a freelance writer and trainer specializing in XML and related technologies. He is the author of Building B2B Applications with XML and XSL Essentials, both published by John Wiley & Sons, and has published several articles for XML.com on the O'Reilly Network.
