Transforming XML document with XSLT

Objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills required to use XSLT to transform XML documents from a source to a target vocabulary.

Targeted audience

Web programmers, designers and content providers

Content

• The components of an XSLT stylesheet
• The XSLT processing model, and XSLT templates
• Extracting content
• Template chaining
• Conditions, branching, iterators, variables and parameter passing
• XSLT functions for generating unique ids, formatting numbers and accessing external XML documents
• Defining display formats for numbers
• Sorting
• Copying a subtree of nodes
• Including and importing an external XSLT stylesheet
• Working with multiple namespaces in the source or transformed document
• The key mechanism
• Multi-pass processing
• Some XSLT 2.0 features : grouping, sequences, multi file output using result-document