XSL Essentials - Softcover

Michael James Fitzgerald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471416207 ISBN 13: 9780471416203

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

By allowing us to style and reformat XML content, XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language) adds flexibility and power to the hugely popular XML. This one-of-a-kind resource gives developers all the information they need to understand and apply this highly effective Web tool. Using extensive samples and source code, XML expert Mike Fitzgerald walks readers through all facets of XSL, including transforming and formatting documents to an XML path language, numbered and sorted lists, conditional processing and loops, output methods, advanced formatting, and shorthand properties. Readers will get expert guidance on translating XML documents with XSLT (XSL Transformation) and formatting with XSLFO (XSL Formatting Objects). As part of the exciting new Wiley XML Essentials Series, this excellent resource features an appendix listing all XSL elements and XSLFO formatting objects and formatting properties, source code indexing, and more.

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About the Author

MICHAEL FITZGERALD is principal of Wy'east Communications (www.wyeast.net), a writing and training consultancy specializing in XML. He is the author of Building B2B Applications with XML (Wiley) and is also Series Architect for Quessing Courseware Corporation's XML training series (www.quessing.com).

From the Back Cover

A fast-moving, straightforward guide to transforming and formatting XML documents with XSL

XSL Essentials

Part of XM's popularity and power is in its ability to add flexibility to structured documents and data. The World Wide Web Consortium's Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a language that provides a way to transform and format XML documents. With the help of detailed XML source and stylesheet examples, author Michael Fitzgerald shows you how to transform XML documents using XSL Transformations (XSLT). He then explains how to use XSL Formatting Objects (XSLFO) to format XML documents and apply specific properties. Along the way, you'll also learn how to take advantage of other features of XSL including XML Path Language (XPath), numbering and sorting lists, conditional processing, multiple stylesheets, and much more.

Part of the exciting new Wiley XML Essentials Series, this book teaches you how to:
* Transform XML documents into new XML, XHTML, HTML, or text documents with XSLT
* Use all XSLT elements and functions
* Transform B2B documents (includes SOAP and cXML samples)
* Format XML documents with XSLFO using simple page layout, blocks for headings and paragraphs, tables, lists, and more

The CD-ROM contains all the source stylesheets and documents from the book.

The companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/fitzgerald features:
* Archives of all stylesheet examples from the book
* Links to XSL reference materials, XSLT processors, and XSLFO formatters
* Links to XSL-related sites and mail lists

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Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471416207
• ISBN 13: 9780471416203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336