Forget those funky robot toys that were all the rage in the '80s, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformations) is the ultimate transformer. This powerful language is expert at transforming XML documents into PDF files, HTML documents, JPEG files--virtually anything your heart desires. As useful as XSLT is, though, most people have a difficult time learning its many peculiarities. And now Version 2.0, while elegant and powerful, has only added to the confusion. XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition wants to set the record straight. It helps you sharpen your programming skills and overall understanding of XSLT through a collection of detailed recipes. Each recipe breaks down a specific problem into manageable chunks, giving you an easy-to-grasp roadmap for integrating XSLT with your data and applications. No other XSLT book around employs this practical problem-solution-discussion format. In addition to offering code recipes for solving everyday problems with XSLT 1.0, this new edition shows you how to leverage the improvements found in XSLT 2.0, such as how to simplify the string manipulation and date/time conversion processes. The book also covers XPath 2.0, a critical companion standard, as well as topics ranging from basic transformations to complex sorting and linking. It even explores extension functions on a variety of different XSLT processors and shows ways to combine multiple documents using XSLT. Code examples add a real-world dimension to each technique. Whether you're just starting out in XSLT or looking for advanced techniques, you'll find the level of information you need in XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition.

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Sal Mangano has been developing software for over 12 years and has worked on many mission-critical applications, especially in the area of financial-trading applications. Unlike many XML/XSLT developers, he did not approach the technology from the standpoint of the Internet and Web development but rather from the broader need for a general-purpose, data-transformation framework. This experience has given him a unique perspective that has influenced many of the recipes in his book, the XSLT Cookbook. Sal has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. XPath       1.1 Effectively Using Axes       1.2 Filtering Nodes       1.3 Working with Sequences       1.4 Shrinking Conditional Code with If Expressions       1.5 Eliminating Recursion with for Expressions       1.6 Taming Complex Logic Using Quantifiers       1.7 Using Set Operations       1.8 Using Node Comparisons       1.9 Coping with XPath 2.0's Extended Type System       1.10 Exploiting XPath 2.0's Extended Type System 2. Strings       2.1 Testing If a String Ends with Another String       2.2 Finding the Position of a Substring       2.3 Removing Specific Characters from a String       2.4 Finding Substrings from the End of a String       2.5 Duplicating a String N Times       2.6 Reversing a String       2.7 Replacing Text       2.8 Converting Case       2.9 Tokenizing a String       2.10 Making Do Without Regular Expressions       2.11 Exploiting Regular Expressions       2.12 Using the EXSLT String Extensions 3. Numbers and Math       3.1 Formatting Numbers       3.2 Rounding Numbers to a Specified Precision       3.3 Converting from Roman Numerals to Numbers       3.4 Converting from One Base to Another       3.5 Implementing Common Math Functions       3.6 Computing Sums and Products       3.7 Finding Minimums and Maximums       3.8 Computing Statistical Functions       3.9 Computing Combinatorial Functions       3.10 Testing Bits 4. Dates and Times       4.1 Calculating the Day of the Week       4.2 Determining the Last Day of the Month       4.3 Getting Names for Days and Months       4.4 Calculating Julian and Absolute Day Numbersfrom a Specified Date       4.5 Calculating the Week Number for aSpecified Date       4.6 Working with the Julian Calendar       4.7 Working with the ISO Calendar       4.8 Working with the Islamic Calendar       4.9 Working with the Hebrew Calendar       4.10 Formatting Dates and Times       4.11 Determining Secular and Religious Holidays 5. Selecting and Traversing       5.1 Ignoring Duplicate Elements       5.2 Selecting All but a Specific Element       5.3 Selecting Nodes by Context       5.4 Performing a Preorder Traversal       5.5 Performing a Postorder Traversal       5.6 Performing an In-Order Traversal       5.7 Performing a Level-Order Traversal       5.8 Processing Nodes by Position 6. Exploiting XSLT 2.0       6.1 Convert Simple Named Templates to XSLT Functions       6.2 Prefer for-each-group over Muenchian Method of Grouping       6.3 Modularizing and Modes       6.4 Using Types for Safety and Precision       6.5 Avoiding 1.0 to 2.0 Porting Pitfalls       6.6 Emulating Object-Oriented Reuse and Design Patterns       6.7 Processing Unstructured Text with Regular Expressions       6.8 Solving Difficult Serialization Problems with Character Maps       6.9 Outputting Multiple Documents       6.10 Handling String Literals Containing Quote Characters       6.11 Understanding the New Capabilities of Old XSLT 1.0 Features 7. XML to Text       7.1 Dealing with Whitespace       7.2 Exporting XML to Delimited Data       7.3 Creating a Columnar Report       7.4 Displaying a Hierarchy       7.5 Numbering Textual Output       7.6 Wrapping Text to a Specified Width and Alignment 8. XML to XML       8.1 Converting Attributes to Elements       8.2 Converting Elements to Attributes       8.3 Renaming Elements or Attributes       8.4 Merging Documents with Identical Schema       8.5 Merging Documents with Unlike Sch ...