Altova Education partner This XSL course is the last two days of the five-day XML training course, but it can be taken independently of the five-day package.
You are currently working with XML - maybe you've defined a language with a DTD, maybe you're editing XML documents regularly, or maybe you're prototyping a project - but you need to expand your knowledge of the W3C XML languages. The Intermediate client-side XML class examines XPath and XSLT. XSLT is used to transform your XML documents into a format appropriate for particular applications
Though you do not have to be familiar with XPath to use the XSLT Mapper, you may benefit from some knowledge of XPath when building advanced expressions in XSLT. On the Web, you will find numerous publications dedicated to XSLT and related topics. Most books on XSLT contain sections on XPath. For a complete description of XPath and how to use it, read the W3C XML Path Language specification. This document is available at http://www.w3.org.
While XPath and XSLT are defined as separate specifications by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XPath
Debates on the XML-DEV and XSL mailing lists over the last two weeks concern the futures of XSLT, XPath, and, the latest addition to the W3C XML toolkit, XML Query. There are no signs of these debates ending this week. Discussion on XML-DEV about the design of XML Query rages on.
Reinventing the Wheel
The focus of last week's XML-Deviant was the concern expressed by several XML-DEV contributors that the interdependence of several W3C specifications may have exceeded the dictates of software reuse and become instead a tangled mess. Suggestions were
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