XSLT

Description

XSLT training course description

This course has been designed as a follow on course for the XML primer course. The course looks at the use of XSLT in the transforming and styling XML documents.

What will you learn

• Transform and style XML documents using XSLT.

XSLT training course details

XSLT training course contents

• Introduction

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), transforming and formatting XML.

• XML refresher

The basic rules for building an XML document.

• An introduction to XSLT

The basic concepts of XSLT, xsl:output, xsl:template, xsl:value-of.

• XML documents as trees

How the original XML is transformed into a set of nodes, the general terms for manipulating node trees.

• Paths (XPath)

Use of path matching to select required nodes for transformation.

• Using templates

xsl:apply-templates, xsl:template match, nested templates, xsl:copy , <comment> and <element> , default templates, parameters.

• Control

xsl:if, xsl:choose, xsl:for-each, xsl:sort.

• Constructing the result tree

xsl:output, xsl:attribute, xsl:attribute-set, xsl:comment, xsl:processing-instruction, xsl:text, xsl:value-of, xsl:variable.

• Combining templates

xsl:include, xsl:import, xsl:apply-imports.

• Transforming to text