Beginning XSLT 2.0: From Novice to Professional

by Jeni Tennison

Overview

* Updated for XSLT 2.0, the latest revision

* A clear, step-by-step introduction to XSLT for practical, everyday tasks

* Suitable for complete beginners, even people who have never programmed before

* Comprehensive, but focuses on techniques that are used time and time again; Uses a fun byut realistic case study throughout

* Includes introductions to many of the most popular XML vocabularies

Written by one of the leading experts on both XSLT and XML Schema; technical review by Michael Kay, the leading and well-known expert on XSLT.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590593240
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	07/28/2005
Series:	From Novice to Professional Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	824
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.06(d)

About the Author

Jeni Tennison is an independent consultant specializing in XSLT and XML Schema development. She trained as a knowledge engineer, gaining a Ph.D. in collaborative ontology development, and has since become a consultant working in a variety of areas including publishing, water monitoring, and financial services. She is the author of XPath on the Edge and Beginning XSLT and is one of the founders of the EXSLT initiative to standardize extensions to XSLT and XPath. She is an invited expert on the W3C XSL Working Group, and she was voted ActiveState Activator's Choice XSLT Programmer of the Year in 2002. She spends much of her spare time answering people's queries on the XSL-List and xmlschema-dev mailing lists.

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Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Whether you’re just starting out with XSLT and XPath, or you’re moving up to the 2.0 standards, Beginning XSLT 2.0 covers everything you need to know to solve virtually any transformation problem.

Jeni Tennison, an invited expert on the W3C’s XSL working group, knows the standards backward and forward. As befits a book subtitled From Novice to Professional, though, she begins with the absolute basics -- assuming you know some HTML and CSS, but little more.

Using plenty of sample code and output, she walks through all facets of XSLT 2.0: templates, conditional processing, manipulating atomic values, variables, paths, sequences, result trees, sorting, grouping, and more. You’ll find practical guidance on constructing applications; handling backwards compatibility; using dynamic transformations; even interpreting RSS with XSLT. Handy quick-reference appendices make the book a true “single source” for any developer. Bill Camarda, from the October 2005 Read Only

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