XSLT Advanced

Product Description

This is a practical, hands-on course for developers with experience of XML wishing to gain an insight into the advanced features of XSLT.

• New XSLT 2.0 Features
• New XPath 2.0 Features
• Multiple Result Trees
• Using Regular Expressions
• Grouping in XSLT 2.0
• Extension Functions
• Coping with XPath 2.0's Extended Type System
• Exploiting XPath 2.0's Extended Type System

• Convert Simple Named Templates to XSLT Functions
• Prefer for-each-group over Muenchian Method of Grouping
• Modularizing & Modes
• Using Types for Safety & Precision
• Avoiding 1.0 to 2.0 Porting Pitfalls
• Emulating Object-Oriented Reuse & Design Patterns
• Processing Unstructured Text with Regular Expressions
• Solving Difficult Serialization Problems with Character Maps
• Outputting Multiple Documents
• Handling String Literals Containing"e Characters
• Understanding the New Capabilities of Old XSLT 1.0 Features

• Dealing with Whitespace
• Exporting XML to Delimited Data
• Creating a Columnar Report
• Displaying a Hierarchy
• Numbering Textual Output
• Wrapping Text to a Specified Width & Alignment

• Converting Attributes to Elements
• Converting Elements to Attributes
• Renaming Elements or Attributes
• Merging Documents with Identical Schema
• Merging Documents with Unlike Schema
• Splitting Documents
• Flattening an XML Hierarchy
• Deepening an XML Hierarchy
• Reorganizing an XML Hierarchy

• Performing Set Operations on Node Sets
• Performing Set Operations on Node Sets Using value Semantics
• Determining Set Equality by value
• Performing Structure-Preserving Queries
• Joins
• Implementing the W3C XML Query-Use Cases in XSLT

• Using XSLT as a Styling Language
• Creating Hyperlinked Documents
• Creating HTML Tables
• Creating Frames
• Creating Data-Driven Stylesheets
• Creating a Self-Contained HTML Transformation
• Populating a Form