• Updated for XSLT 2.0, the latest revision

• A clear, step-by-step introduction to XSLT for practical, everyday tasks

• Suitable for complete beginners, even people who have never programmed before

• Comprehensive, but focuses on techniques that are used time and time again; Uses a fun byut realistic case study throughout

• Includes introductions to many of the most popular XML vocabularies Written by one of the leading experts on both XSLT and XML Schema; technical review by Michael Kay, the leading and well-known expert on XSLT.

Autorentext
Jeni Tennison is an independent consultant specializing in XSLT and XML Schema development. She trained as a knowledge engineer, gaining a Ph.D. in collaborative ontology development, and has since become a consultant working in a variety of areas including publishing, water monitoring, and financial services. She is the author of XPath on the Edge and Beginning XSLT and is one of the founders of the EXSLT initiative to standardize extensions to XSLT and XPath. She is an invited expert on the W3C XSL Working Group, and she was voted ActiveState Activator's Choice XSLT Programmer of the Year in 2002. She spends much of her spare time answering people's queries on the XSL-List and xmlschema-dev mailing lists.

Zusammenfassung

This followup to Jeni Tennison's Beginning XSLT has been updated to accomodate the revised XSLT standard. Part one of this book introduces XML and XSLT at a comfortable pace, and gradually demonstrates techniques for generating HTML (plus other formats), from XML. In part two, Tennison applies theory to real-life XSLT capabilitiesincluding generating graphics.

Each chapter includes step-by-step examples (with code available online), plus review questions at the end, to help you grasp the discussed features. In fact, all of the examples and exercises revolve around an interesting common theme: making TV listings available online. This book lives up to its name, and will definitely take you from a novice to a professional, in no time!

Inhalt
Introducing XML.- Creating HTML from XML.- Templates.- Conditions.- Manipulating Atomic Values.- Variables and Parameters.- Paths and Sequences.- Result Trees.- Sorting and Grouping.- IDs, Keys, and Numbering.- Named Templates, Stylesheet Functions, and Recursion.- Building XSLT Applications.- Schemas.- Backwards Compatibility and Extensions.- Dynamic XSLT.- Creating SVG.- Interpreting RSS with XSLT.