This book introduces Web developers and people with limited programming experience to the exciting world of "Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations" (XSLT). XSLT is vital to realizing the promise of XML. If you, for example, have an XML document and you want to use the same document to appear both on the Web and in a printed document, you would need to use XSLT to transform the raw XML into the two forms.

From the reviews:

"Aimed at both Web designers and Web developers, Beginning XSLT provides an in-depth tutorial and reference to XSL . Starting from the ground up, this text provides an extremely detailed yet accessible survey of the latest in tools and XSL programming techniques . As a thorough tutorial to XSL, this text stands out, with its patient authorial style . The advantage to this approach is the consistency of the material." (it-expert, Issue no. 48, 2004)

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 the forthcoming "Beginning XSLT 2.0: From Novice to Professional" (Apress) and 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 was voted ActiveState Activator's Choice XSLT Programmer of the Year in 2002. Tennison spends much of her spare time answering people's queries on the XSL-List and xmlschema-dev mailing lists.

Klappentext

• Remains the classic tutorial for both non-programmers and beginning programmers. * Tried and true step by step approach. * Although it assumes nothing, it contains all the material a professional needs to know.

Inhalt
1: Beyond HTML.- 2: Introducing XML.- 3: Creating HTML from XML.- 4: Templates.- 5: Conditions.- 6: Variables, Expressions, and Parameters.- 7: Paths.- 8: The Result Tree.- 9: Sorting and Numbering.- 10: IDs. Keys. and Groups.- 11: Named Templates and Recursion.- 12: Building XSLT Applications.- 13: Extensions.- 14: Dynamic XSLT.- 15: Creating SVG.- 16: Validating XML with Schematron.- 17: Interpreting RSS with XSLT.- Appendix A: XPath Ouick Reference.- Node Types.- Object Types.- Paths.- Axes.- Node Tests.- Abbreviated Syntax.- Operators.- Logical Operators.- Comparisons.- Numerical Operators.- Node Set Operator.- Functions.- boolean().- ceiling().- concat().- contains().- count().- current().- document().- element-available().- false().- floor().- format-number().- function-available().- generate-id().- id().- key().- lang().- last().- local-name().- name().- namespace-uri().- normalize-space().- not().- number().- position().- round().- starts-with().- string().- string-length().- substring().- substring-after().- substring-before().- sum().- system-property().- translate().- true().- unparsed-entity-uri().- Appendix B: XSLT Quick Reference.- XSLT Elements.- xsl:apply-imports.- xsl:apply-templates.- xsl:attribute.- xsl:attribute-set.- xsl:call-template.- xsl:choose.- xsl:comment.- xsl:copy.- xsl:copy-of.- xsl:decimal-format.- xsl:element.- xsl:fallback.- xsl:for-each.- xsl: if.- xsl:import.- xsl:include.- xsl:key.- xsl:message.- xsl:namespace-alias.- xsl:number.- xsl:otherwise.- xsl:output.- xsl:param.- xsl:preserve-space.- xsl:processing-instruction.- xsl:sort.- xsl:strip-space.- xsl:stylesheet.- xsl:template.- xsl:text.- xsl:transform.- xsl:value-of.- xsl:variable.- xsl:when.- xsl:with-param.- XSLT Attributes.- xsl:extension-element-prefixes.- xsl:exclude-result-prefixes.- xsl:use-attribute-sets.- xsl:version.- Appendix C: Tools.- XSLT Processors.- Saxon.- Xalan-J.- MSXML.- Other XSLT Processors.- XSLT Editors.- Extensions to Other Editors.- Visual XSLT.- XSLAtHome.- XSlide.- XSLT-Process.- Mapping Tools.- CapeStudio.- Whitehill Composer.- XMapper.- XSLWiz.- XSLerator.- Basic Editors.- XFinity Designer.- XL-Styler.- XTrans.- Integrated Development Environments.- Cooktop.- Komodo.- MarrowSoft Xselerator.- Stylus Studio.- XMLOrigin.- XML Spy.- XSLT Support Tools.- XPath Constructors.- XPath 1.0: Interactive Expression Builder.- XPath Tester.- XPath Visualizer.- XSLT Debuggers.- XSLDebugger.- XSL Trace.- Zvon XSL Tracer.- XSLT Profilers.- CatchXSL.- XSL Lint.- XSLT Test Tool.- XSLTMark.- XSLTUnit.- Documentation Generation.- XSLDoc.- XSLTDoc.- XSLTDoc.- XSLT-Enabled Browsers.- Antenna House XSL Formatter.- Internet Explorer.- Mozilla.- Netscape.- XSmiles.- Server-Side Support.- AxKit.- Cocoon.- UWOBO.- XSQL.- A Guide to the Index.