XSLT - Khun Yee Fung

This title will be released on 12/15/2000. You may join our all-subject mailing list to receive official notification of its publication. Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) is a versatile language used to transform XML documents into other formats, such as HTML for display on the Web, WML for display on WAP devices, or plain text. With the emergence of XML as the standard for information exchange, XSLT has become an essential language for all Web developers. XSLT: Working with XML and HTML is a comprehensive tutorial and reference to XSLT, covering the recently finalized World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard. This book will help you master XSLT features and XPath expressions. While its focus is on using XSLT to transform XML to HTML, the fundamentals you learn can be applied to all other kinds of XSLT transformations. Looking deeper into the language, this book explains XSLTs tree-based view of the XML document. It covers paths, the transformation process, the XSLT control elements, how the output document is constructed, and how to use XSLT extensions.;Specific topics discussed include: *XML and XSLT fundamentals *Converting an XML document to a tree *XPath expressions and context node *Matching templates and current node *Control elements in XSLT *Constructing the result tree and output document *XSLT idioms and tips for effective use A complete case study using XML and XSLT to publish a Web site illustrates all the major concepts and techniques in the book. In addition, the CD-ROM provides the code for all the examples in the books, as well as the case study.