Sams Teach Yourself Xslt in 21 Days - Softcover

Otegem, Michiel Van; Ottengem, Michiel Van

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672323184 ISBN 13: 9780672323188

Publisher: Sams, 2002

Synopsis

The book covers XSLT and Xpath (as a part of XSLT), as these topics have everything to do with processing XML. It will also cover XML from an XSLT processing and design point of view. Other XML technologies will not be discussed as superset of XSLT, most notably XSL. XSL Formatting Objects alone is enough material for an entire book. Apart from that, XSLT and Xpath form the processing/programming section of the entire XSL specification. This book presents an overview of XSLT and guides readers through transforming their first XML data. In this book you will also learn:

• Selecting Data-Stylesheets and Xpath Basics;
• Inserting text and elements in output;
• Copying elements from the source and inserting text;
• Conditional processing basics and expressions;
• Modularizing stylesheets;
• Understanding, creating, and using templates;
• Controlling output, as well as creating more advanced output;
• Using multi-file stylesheets, variables, and parameters;
• Working with numbers, strings, multiple XML sources, and namespaces;
• Selecting data based upon keys;
• Recursion;
• Creating computational stylesheets;
• Working with parses;
• Designing XML and XSLT applications;
• Extending XSLT.

About this title

About the Author

Michiel van Otegem lives and works in the Netherlands. He is the co-founder and Chief Web development Teacher of ASPNL, a consulting and teaching firm targeting the Dutch and European market. He teaches advanced ASP, ASP.NET, and XML/XSLT classes, and writes articles and tutorials for magazines and Web sites, such as ASPNL.com, TopXML.com, ASPAlliance.com, CoDe Magazine, and asp.netPRO magazine. He has had a passion for programming ever since he wrote his first programs in MSX Basic and Z80 assembler, at age 10. Now, nearly two decades later, he is a pioneer in Web development, quick to embrace technologies such as XML and ASP(.NET). He has worked with a wide range of languages and platforms, including ASP(.NET), Visual Basic, Access/SQL Server, C/C++, CGI/Perl, PHP, and, of course, XML and XSLT. He is a long-time contributing member of ASPFriends.com mailing lists, which he now helps to moderate and improve as a valued ASP Ace member.

From the Back Cover

The book covers XSLT and Xpath (as a part of XSLT), as these topics have everything to do with processing XML. It will also cover XML from an XSLT processing and design point of view. Other XML technologies will not be discussed as superset of XSLT, most notably XSL. XSL Formatting Objects alone is enough material for an entire book. Apart from that, XSLT and Xpath form the processing/programming section of the entire XSL specification. This book presents an overview of XSLT and guides readers through transforming their first XML data. In this book you will also learn:

• Selecting Data-Stylesheets and Xpath Basics;
• Inserting text and elements in output;
• Copying elements from the source and inserting text;
• Conditional processing basics and expressions;
• Modularizing stylesheets;
• Understanding, creating, and using templates;
• Controlling output, as well as creating more advanced output;
• Using multi-file stylesheets, variables, and parameters;
• Working with numbers, strings, multiple XML sources, and namespaces;
• Selecting data based upon keys;
• Recursion;
• Creating computational stylesheets;
• Working with parses;
• Designing XML and XSLT applications;
• Extending XSLT.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0672323184
• ISBN 13: 9780672323188
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 649