Beginning XSLT 2.0

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvi

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2. Introducing XML

   Pages 1-46

3. Creating HTML from XML

   Pages 47-84

4. Templates

   Pages 85-135

5. Conditions

   Pages 137-180

6. Manipulating Atomic Values

   Pages 181-232

7. Variables and Parameters

   Pages 233-273

8. Paths and Sequences

   Pages 275-342

9. Result Trees

   Pages 343-398

10. Sorting and Grouping

    Pages 399-427

11. IDs, Keys, and Numbering

    Pages 429-472

12. Named Templates, Stylesheet Functions, and Recursion

    Pages 473-498

13. Building XSLT Applications

    Pages 499-524

14. Schemas

    Pages 525-556

15. Backwards Compatibility and Extensions

    Pages 557-585

16. Dynamic XSLT

    Pages 587-623

17. Creating SVG

    Pages 625-667

18. Interpreting RSS with XSLT

    Pages 669-696

19. Back Matter

    Pages 697-797

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This followup to Jeni Tennison's Beginning XSLT has been updated to accomodate the revised XSLT standard. Part one of this book introduces XML and XSLT at a comfortable pace, and gradually demonstrates techniques for generating HTML (plus other formats), from XML. In part two, Tennison applies theory to real-life XSLT capabilities—including generating graphics.

Each chapter includes step-by-step examples (with code available online), plus review questions at the end, to help you grasp the discussed features. In fact, all of the examples and exercises revolve around an interesting common theme: making TV listings available online. This book lives up to its name, and will definitely take you from a novice to a professional, in no time!

• Extensible Markup Language (XML)
• Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)
• Extreme Programming
• HTML
• SVG
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• XML
• XML schema
• XPath
• XSLT
• techniques
• template

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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