Overview

This is a practical, hands-on course for developers with experience of XML wishing to focus on the use of XSLT and XPath.

Course Outline

Duplication, Iteration, and Conditional XSLT Elements

The Instruction Element, The Instruction Element, The Instruction Element, The Element, The Instruction Element, The Instruction Element, The Instruction Element

Controlling Output

The Output Method, Outputting XML, Outputting HTML, Outputting Text, Using a QName Output Method, Media Types

XPath

The XPath Data Model, Location Paths, Attribute Value Templates, XPath Datatypes, The XPath View of an XML Document

XPath and XSLT Functions

Boolean Functions, Node-Set Functions, Number Functions, String Functions

Templates

Template Priority, Calling a Named Template, Using Templates with Parameters, Modes, Built-in Template Rules

Using Variables and Parameters

Defining Variables and Parameters, Using Variables, Using Parameters, Invoking Templates with Parameters, Using Result Tree Fragments

Using Keys

A Simple Key, More Than One Key, Using a Parameter with Keys, Cross-Referencing with Keys, Grouping with Keys

Working with Multiple Documents

Including Stylesheets, Importing Stylesheets, Using the document( ) Function

Creating Links and Cross-References

Generating Links with the id() Function, Generating Links with the key() Function, Generating Links in Unstructured Documents,

, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0

New XSLT 2.0 Features, New XPath 2.0 Features, Multiple Result Trees, Using Regular Expressions, Grouping in XSLT 2.0, Extension Functions, Coping with XPath 2.0's Extended Type System, Exploiting XPath 2.0's Extended Type System

Strings

Testing If a String Ends with Another String, Finding the Position of a Substring, Removing Specific Characters from a String, Finding Substrings from the End of a String, Duplicating a String N Times, Reversing a String, Replacing Text, Converting Case, Tokenizing a String, Making Do Without Regular Expressions, Exploiting Regular Expressions, Using the EXSLT String Extensions

Numbers and Math

Formatting Numbers, Rounding Numbers to a Specified Precision, Converting from Roman Numerals to Numbers, Converting from One Base to Another, Implementing Common Math Functions, Computing Sums and Products, Finding Minimums and Maximums, Computing Statistical Functions, Computing Combinatorial Functions, Testing Bits

Dates and Times

Calculating the Day of the Week, Determining the Last Day of the Month, Getting Names for Days and Months, Calculating Julian and Absolute Day Numbers from a Specified Date, Calculating the Week Number for aSpecified Date, Formatting Dates and Times, Determining Secular and Religious Holidays

Selecting and Traversing

Ignoring Duplicate Elements, Selecting All but a Specific Element, Selecting Nodes by Context, Performing a Preorder Traversal, Performing a Postorder Traversal, Performing an In-Order Traversal, Performing a Level-Order Traversal, Processing Nodes by Position

Exploiting XSLT 2.0

Convert Simple Named Templates to XSLT Functions, Prefer for-each-group over Muenchian Method of Grouping, Modularizing and Modes, Using Types for Safety and Precision, Avoiding 1.0 to 2.0 Porting Pitfalls, Emulating Object-Oriented Reuse and Design Patterns, Processing Unstructured Text with Regular Expressions, Solving Difficult Serialization Problems with Character Maps, Outputting Multiple Documents, Handling String Literals Containing Quote Characters, Understanding the New Capabilities of Old XSLT 1.0 Features

XML to Text

Dealing with Whitespace, Exporting XML to Delim