XSLT 2.0 and 1.0 Foundations
XSLT is a powerful, higher-level, declarative and extraordinary member in the family of modern programming languages, due to its pattern-matching philosophy. This is the language for processing XML documents and hierarchical data in general, that opens to us a whole new world of knowledge, understanding and problem-solving strategies.
What you'll learn
XSLT is the language, especially designed by the W3C Consortium for processing XML documents and hierarchical data in general. This course covers the fundamentals of the language both version 1.0 and 2.0. Learn in depth the features of XSLT, and be part of the demos of their real-world practical applications. Not only is XSLT a powerful, higher-level, declarative and extraordinary with its pattern-matching philosophy modern programming language, but it opens to us a whole new world of knowledge, understanding and problem-solving strategies.
Table of contents
- Version Check 0m
- Overview 1m
- XML Document. Basic kinds of Nodes 3m
- Lexical rules for Characters, Names and Tags. 3m
- Special Characters and Predefined Entity References. 1m
- Wellformed XML Document. 5m
- Namespaces 4m
- Myths about Namespaces. 1m
- Default Namespace. 1m
- Namespace Scope. 1m
- Q & A About Default Namespaces. 1m
- Predefined Namespace Declarations. Some Important Namespaces 1m
- Namespace-wellformedness. Namespace Demo. 3m
- XML Schema and Schema Definition Languages. 2m
- Simple XML Schema: Example and Demo. 2m
- Summary 1m
- Overview 2m
- The Tree Components of XSLT Processing 2m
- External Context for the XSLT Processor 3m
- How the XSLT Processor Works 2m
- What Kind of Language is XSLT 5m
- Basic XSLT Concepts: Template Rules 2m
- Sequence Constructors 4m
- Template Selection and Conflict Resolution 3m
- Built-In Template Rules. Demo 9m
- Controlling which Nodes to process. Push/Pull style. Demo 5m
- Variables in XSLT 6m
- Parameters, Expressions and Expression Context 4m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Dimitre Novatchev developed FXSL – the functional programming library for XSLT (1.0 and 2.0). He thrives at discovering and employing unexpected capabilities of XSLT and XPath that even their W3C creators hadn’t imagined. Suggested the argument placeholder feature that is now part of XPath 3.0. Member in the W3C XSLT working group in 2011 – 2013, where he contributed to the design and specification of XSLT 3.0. Dimitre has answered around 5000 XSLT/XML/XPath questions on StackOverflow and ... more