Transforming XML using XSLT Style Sheets

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XML has rapidly become a de-facto standard for exchanging data between applications and organisations. The growth of XML has led to the emergence of XPath and XSLT as standard ways of accessing and transforming content in an XML document.

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  • IT
  • XML
  • XML training

Course programme

XML Overview

  • A recap of XML syntax, structure and formatting to produce well formed documents
  • What are namespaces?
  • How are XML grammars defined and formerly specified
  • An introduction to XML Schemas

XSLT and XPath Introduction

  • What is XPath?
  • What is XSLT?
  • Why are XSLT and XPath useful?
  • Transforming XML documents using XPath and XSLT
  • Generating XML and/or HTML output
  • Industry support for XPath and XSLT

Selecting XML Nodes using XPath

  • XPath nodes and properties
  • Axes, node tests, and predicates
  • Location paths and location steps
  • Accessing elements and attributes
  • Accessing other node types
  • Filtering nodes using predicates
  • Using XPath operators and functions

Writing and Applying XSLT Style Sheets

  • XSLT style sheet structure
  • Defining template rules
  • Obtaining node values
  • Invoking template rules
  • Literal result elements
  • Applying a style sheet to an XML document
  • Applying a style sheet dynamically using DOM

The XSLT Programming Language

  • Performing iteration
  • Making decisions
  • Creating named templates
  • Calling named templates
  • Defining and using variables
  • Defining and using parameters

Fine-Tuning XSLT Output

  • Formatting numbers
  • Sorting the result tree
  • Controlling whitespace
  • Character encodings
  • Specifying XML, HTML, and plain text output methods

Mapping XML dialects with XSLT

  • Creating new XML content with XSLT
  • Creating elements
  • Creating attributes
  • Namespace issues
  • Generating and formatting text content
  • Creating numeric output
  • Creating other XML content

Producing Scalable Solutions with XSLT

  • Including style sheets
  • Importing style sheets
  • Overriding imported template rules
  • Invoking overridden template rules
  • Specifying template priorities

Managing multiple XML documents and Grouping

  • Accessing multiple XML documents
  • Accessing XML data with keys
  • Generating cross references in XML documents
  • Implementing standard techniques to achieve group by functionality

XPath 2.0

  • What's new in XPath 2.0?
  • How has the query language of XML been enhance?
  • Introducing data types and sequences
  • Querying with 2.0
  • Using for, some and every keywords
  • How to use if statements
  • Set operations
  • Functions and Type casting

XSLT 2.0

  • What's new in XSLT 2.0; Data types and strong typing
  • How to use Grouping
  • User defined Functions
  • Creating multiple output documents
  • Generating sequences
  • Processing data with regular expressions
  • Controlling template processing

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