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XSLT Working with XML and HTML

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Title: XSLT Working with XML and HTML ISBN: 0201711036 Pub Date: December 2000 Pages: 464

Book Overview

This book is about XSLT, or XSL Transformations (XSL stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language), which is a language developed by W3C that can be used to transform XML documents. XSLT is so versatile that it can transform one kind of XML document to another kind of XML document, to an HTML document, or to a text document. 

This book is for anybody who wants to use XSLT to transform XML documents to HTML documents. We will look at what XSLT is all about, how it is used for transformation to HTML, and especially how to write the XSLT documents for the transformation. Although XML to HTML is the focus of this book, the principles of transformation do not change whether you want to transform XML documents to HTML, XML, or text. Once you know how to produce HTML documents, you will possess the knowledge to produce the other two types as well.

The Learning Curve

Although XSLT has concepts that require some programming fundamentals, it is not necessary to have a programming background. In other words, it is typical of the technologies that Web developers encounter and use every day. The definitions and examples should help you grasp the nonprogramming concepts.

This book was written in plain English, with as little computer jargon as possible. However, since you occasionally need to consult the specifications related to XSLT, I have used that terminology in the book. 

Table of Contents

PART I. 
1: Introduction. 
2: XML. 
3: Introduction to XSLT. 

PART II 
4: XML Documents as Trees. 
5: Paths. 
6: Transformation. 
7: Control. 
8: Constructing the Result Tree. 
9: Combining Templates. 
10: Extensions. 

PART III 
11: Idioms and Tips. 
12: A Case Study. 

PART IV 
13: Transforming to XML and Text. 

Appendix A: Tools and Resources. 
Appendix B: Character Sets and Encoding Schemes. 
Appendix C: XSLT and XPath Reference. 

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