XSLT

In this two-day course you will use the features of XSLT and XPath to develop stylesheets that convert XML documents to other XML, HTML, or text. You will use elements and functions to create stylesheet templates and match them with parts of your source document.

Audience: Developers who wish to transform XML documents into other XML documents, HTML or text using XSLT.

Prerequisites: Introduction to XML.

Introduction to XSLT

Standards
Stylesheets
Processors
Processor Implementations
Results
What is XPath?

Getting Started

The Goal
Simplified Stylesheets
Composite Stylesheet Blueprint
Root Template
xsl:value-of
Other Templates
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 and Whitespace

XPath Axes and Predicates

What is an Axis?
Peer Axis Types
More Peer Axis Types
Descendant Axis Types
Ancestor Axis Types
Predicates
Functions
id() Function

XSLT Flow Control

XPath Data Types
Named Templates
Mode
xsl:if
xsl:choose
xsl:for-each
Variables
Attribute Value Templates

More XSLT Elements

xsl:sort
The document()
Using Other Stylesheets
Template Rule Conflicts
Parameters
Recursion
XSLT Extensions
Fallback Processing

XSLT for Other Output Types

XML Output
HTML Output
Delimited Text Output
Extended Output Types