XSLT For Dummies
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XSLT For Dummies is your ticket to quickly mastering XSLT—no matter what your prior programming experience. Writing in easygoing, plain English, XML pro Richard Wagner provides expert advice, step-by-step guidance, and tons of crystal-clear examples to help you harness the power of XSLT to transform documen ts. In no time you’ll:
- Understand how XSLT works with XSL and XPath
- Experiment with templates, stylesheets, and expressions
- Perform HTML transformations
- Master XPath data types and functions
- Combine XSLT stylesheets
- Explore cool XSLT programming tricks
XSLT For Dummies works from the ground up, starting with a practical introduction of the “X-Team”—XML, XSL, XSLT, and X-Path—and instructions on how to write a XSLT stylesheet. From there it quickly moves onward and upward through the whole range of important XSLT topics, including:
- Transforming with stylesheets
- Understanding and using template rules
- Using XPath to locate nodes in XML documents
- Combining XSLT stylesheets and adding processing instructions
- Debugging XSLT transformations
- Ten XSLT processors available online
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a babe in the woods who can’t tell a “tag” from an element, or you’re an old pro at creating XML documents, XSLT For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to explore and take full advantage of Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.
