XSLT Programmer's Reference 2nd Edition

Michael H. Kay

ISBN 10: 1861005067 / ISBN 13: 9781861005069

Published by Peer Information, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: XSLT Programmer's Reference 2nd Edition
• Publisher: Peer Information
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861005067
• ISBN 13: 9781861005069
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This compact, relevant, updated version reflects recent changes in the XSLT specification and developments in XSLT parsers. The material on tools and implementations has been revised; so too have all the examples. It also includes a new chapter on writing extension functions.

XML has firmly established itself as the universal standard for managing data for the web and is now being implemented on a wide scale.

XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language), a vital companion to XML, is used for two main purposes: to format or style XML data so that it can be displayed in a browser and to transform XML data (XSLT). When you transform an XML document, you manipulate the data into a new structure, for example, re-ordering the data. This enables the same data store to be used in an unlimited number of ways. XSLT is a flexible, customizable, and cross-platform language.

XSLT is a notoriously difficult language to understand, but this book, while being a complete reference to the recommendation, will also give code examples showing how it all ties together and can be effectively employed in a real-world development scenario.

About the Author

Michael Kay is the author of the best selling XSLT Programmer's Reference. He has spent most of his career as a software designer and systems architect with ICL, the IT services supplier. In the XML world he is known as the developer of the open source Saxon product, the first fully-conformant implementation of the XSLT standard.