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XSLT and XPATH: A Guide to XML Transformations

ISBN: 0130404462
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 18

Authors: John Robert Gardner, Zarella L. Rendon

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• XSLT and XPATH: A Guide to XML Transformations
• Copyright
• Preface
• Why Should You Use XSLT?
• Who Is This Book For?
• Organization
• Conventions
• Versions
• Acknowledgments
• Readers and Contributors
• Chapter 1. Anatomy of an XSLT Stylesheet
• 1.1. What Is Markup?
• 1.2. What Is XSLT?
• 1.3. What Is XPath?
• 1.4. XSLT Stylesheet Concepts
• 1.5. Terminology for XSLT
• 1.6. Climbing Round the Family Tree: Addressing inXSLT
• Chapter 2. Fundamental Concepts of XSLT Stylesheets
• 2.1. Boilerplates for XSLT Stylesheets
• 2.2. Embedding Stylesheets in XML Documents
• 2.3. XSLT Stylesheet Terminology
• 2.4. XML Components of XSLT Stylesheets
• Chapter 3. Advanced Stylesheet Concepts
• 3.1. Templates: The Building Blocks of Transformations
• 3.2. Built-in Template Rules
• Chapter 4. XPath Expressions
• 4.1. XPath Syntax and Terminology
• 4.2. Abbreviations
• Chapter 5. XPath Functions
• 5.1. XPath Function Library
• 5.2. The Node-set Core Function Group
• 5.3. String Core Function Group
• 5.4. Boolean Core Function Group
• 5.5. Number Core Function Group
• Chapter 6. Building New XML Documents with XSLT
• 6.1. Creating Elements with LREs
• 6.2. The xsl:element Instruction Element
• 6.3. Creating Attributes with the xsl:attribute Instruction Element
• 6.4. The xsl:attribute-set Top-Level Element
• 6.5. The xsl:text Instruction Element
• 6.6. Adding Attributes to LREs
• 6.7. Comments and Processing-Instructions
• 6.8. Namespace Aliases
• Chapter 7. Using Multiple Stylesheets
• 7.1. Working with External Stylesheets
• 7.2. Template Rule Processing and Priorities
• Chapter 8. Working with Variables
• 8.1. Declaring and Binding Variables
• 8.2. Result Tree Fragments
• 8.3. Using Variable References
• 8.4. Comparing xsl:variable and xsl:param
• 8.5. Comparing xsl:with-param to xsl:param and xsl:variable
• Chapter 9. Duplication, Iteration, and Conditional XSLT Elements
• 9.1. The xsl:copy-of Instruction Element
• 9.2. The xsl:copy Instruction Element
• 9.3. The xsl:for-each Instruction Element
• 9.4. The xsl:sort Element
• 9.5. The xsl:if Instruction Element
• 9.6. The xsl:choose Instruction Element
• 9.7. The xsl:number Instruction Element
• Chapter 10. Controlling Output Options
• 10.1. The xsl:output Top-Level Element
• 10.2. The The xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space Top-Level Elements
• 10.3. Generating Error Messages and Logs
• Chapter 11. XSLT Functions and Related XSLT Elements
• 11.1. XSLT Function Groups
• 11.2. String XSLT Functions
• 11.3. The Boolean XSLT Function Group
• Chapter 12. XSLT Processors, Extensions, and Java
• 12.1. XSLT Processors
• 12.2. Extension Elements and Functions
• 12.3. Namespaces
• 12.4. Java
• 12.5. Commercial XSLT Processors
• Chapter 13. Xalan, Saxon, and XT
• 13.1. Xalan
• 13.2. Saxon
• 13.3. XT
• 13.4. Generating Multiple Output Files Using Saxon,Xalan, or XT
• Appendix A. Case Studies
• A.1. Lists
• A.2. MARC Records: The ATLAS Project from ATLA-CERTR at Emory University
• A.3. The Harvard-Kyoto Classics Project with Vedic Literature
• Appendix B. Grouping Using the Muenchian Method
• Appendix C. Using XSLT for the Artificial Intelligence N-Queens Problem
• C.1. Architecture
• C.2. The Stylesheet