XML and XSLT

XML and XSLT
$595 / 2 days / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

A Live Instructor-Led Online Course with Mary Gillen

Learn how Extensible Style Language (XSLT) can be used to transform/convert XML data for presentational purposes, to modify data structure, and to create non-XML files.

Goals
Format XML information for a variety of print publications as well as projects for the Web

Audience
Designers, developers and content contributors who want to modify and format their XML data.

Prerequisites
XML1 or equivalent experience

Objectives
1. XML Basics - A Quick Review

• Use XML structure and syntax correctly
• Create well-formed XML documents
• Create document type definitions (DTDs) and schemas
• Create valid XML documents
• Define and use entities
• Create a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file and link it to an XML file
• Display XML documents using data binding, and document object model scripts

2. XSLT 2.0 Basics

• Identify the three parts of XSL
• Describe how XSLT works
• Describe how XPATH works
• Transform XML into XHTML using XSLT
• Use an XSL Template

3. More XSLT Elements

• Sort using xsl:sort
• Create a conditional statement using xsl:if
• Select an element with xsl:choose
• Attach a template with xsl:apply-templates
• Use element attributes to filter output

4. XSL Advanced Elements

• xsl:attribute
• xsl:copy, xsl:copy-of
• xsl:variable
• xsl:include
• xsl:import
• xsl:key
• xsl:number
• xsl:text

5. XSL Functions

• count(), sum() avg(), and format
• number()
• concat()
• generate-id()