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Process Atom 1.0 with XSLT

Use XPath expressions to navigate Atom documents, create or transform Atom source files using XSLT

Uche Ogbuji (uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com), Principal Consultant, Fourthought, Inc.
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Uche Ogbuji is a consultant and co-founder of Fourthought Inc., a software vendor and consultancy specializing in XML solutions for enterprise knowledge management. Fourthought develops 4Suite, an open source platform for XML, RDF, and knowledge-management applications. Mr. Ogbuji is also a lead developer of the Versa RDF query language. He is a computer engineer and writer born in Nigeria, living and working in Boulder, Colorado, USA. You can find more about Mr. Ogbuji at his Weblog Copia, or contact him at uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com.

Summary:  Atom 1.0 is the emerging Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard for Web feeds -- information updates on Web site contents. Since Atom is an XML format, XSLT is a powerful tool for processing it. In this tutorial, Uche Ogbuji looks at XSLT techniques for processing Atom documents, addressing real-life use cases.

Date:  13 Dec 2005
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (385 KB | 30 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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In this tutorial, you have learned how to process Atom 1.0 using XSLT 1.0. In particular you have learned how to:

  • Access the basics of Atom format
  • Interpret and access links in Atom
  • Interpret and access author and category information in Atom
  • Generate a simple ticker tape summary of an Atom feed
  • Set up the ticker tape transform in a browser or stand-alone XSLT processor
  • Process plain text Atom text fields
  • Process XHTML Atom text fields
  • Transform Atom feeds to XHTML and HTML 4
  • Pull information from XHTML to populate an Atom feed
  • Set the current date in an Atom feed
  • Preserve base URI information from Atom to XHTML output
  • Check Atom documents with the RELAX NG specification and W3C validator

This is a foundation on which you can build additional processing capabilities. In some cases XHTML 1.0 will be sufficient. In other cases you might need EXSLT or even application processing, but I hope you now have some appreciation of the range of what you can do with well-designed XSLT in processing Atom.

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