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Introduction to XSLT

Transform XML data from one format to another with Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)

Nicholas Chase (ibmquestions@nicholaschase.com), Freelance writer, Backstop Media
Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nick has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, an Oracle instructor, and the Chief Technology Officer of an interactive communications company. He is the author of several books, including XML Primer Plus (Sams).

Summary:  The need to transform XML is so common that Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is considered one of the basic XML specifications. This tutorial explains how to create XSLT stylesheets. It also covers the basics of XPath, which enables you to select specific parts of an XML document. Finally, it gives you a look at some of the more advanced capabilities that XSLT offers.

Date:  23 Jan 2007
Level:  Introductory
PDF:  A4 and Letter (1615 KB | 42 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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This tutorial took you from minimal knowledge about XSL Transformations to the creation of fairly complex stylesheets. First you learned about the basics of stylesheets, and then about XPath expressions, one of the foundations of XSLT. The last part of this tutorial examined some of the more complicated aspects of using XSLT stylesheets, that is, their variables, conditional processing, and extensions. As a result, you should have enough knowledge to do virtually anything with XSLT stylesheets -- or at least to know what you need to find out if you get stuck.

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