XSLT

Course Overview

• Introduction to XSLT
  • Stylesheet, Source, and Result
  • XSLT Processors
  • Processor Implementations
  • XPath Basics
  • xsl:stylesheet
  • xsl:template
  • xsl:value-of
  • xsl:apply-templates
  • xsl:output

• XPath Nodetypes
  • XPath Expressions
  • XPath Context
  • XPath Location Steps
  • Element and Root Nodes
  • Text and Attribute Nodes
  • Comment and Processing Instruction Nodes
  • Namespace Nodes
  • Wildcards
  • Whitespace
  • Default Template Rules

• XPath Axes and Predicates
  • Location Paths and Location Steps
  • Peer Axis Types
  • More Peer Axis Types
  • Descendant Axis Types
  • Ancestor Axis Types
  • Node Tests
  • Predicates
  • Functions

• XSLT Flow Control
  • xsl:if
  • xsl:choose
  • xsl:for-each
  • xsl:sort
  • Named Templates
  • Mode

• Generating Output with XSLT
  • Output Methods
  • HTML Output
  • Plain Text Output
  • XML Output
  • xsl:element and xsl:attribute
  • Attribute Value Templates
  • xsl:attribute-set
  • Text, Processing-Instructions, and Comments
  • Working with Namespaces

• Using XPath and XSLT Functions
  • XPath Datatypes and Functions
  • Node Test Functions
  • Node Set Functions
  • Boolean Functions
  • String Functions
  • Number Functions
  • The document() Function
  • xsl:key and key() Function

• Advanced XSLT
  • Copying Elements
  • Numbering
  • Variables
  • Parameters
  • Using Other Stylesheets
  • apply-imports
  • Template Rule Conflicts
  • Extensions

• XSLT and XPath 2.0 New Features
  • XSLT 2.0 Grouping Elements and Functions
  • User-Defined XSLT Functions
  • Multiple Output and XHTML Documents
  • Temporary Trees
  • Sequences
  • Types
  • Stylesheets that are Schema-Aware
  • Character Mapping
  • Regular Expressions

Prerequisites

Experience using XML.