XSLT Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Solutions and Examples for XML and XSLT Developers

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Solutions and Examples for XML and XSLT Developers

By Sal Mangano

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Released: December 2005

Pages: 778

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.

Chapter 1 XPath
1. Introduction
2. Effectively Using Axes
3. Filtering Nodes
4. Working with Sequences
5. Shrinking Conditional Code with If Expressions
6. Eliminating Recursion with for Expressions
7. Taming Complex Logic Using Quantifiers
8. Using Set Operations
9. Using Node Comparisons
10. Coping with XPath 2.0's Extended Type System
11. Exploiting XPath 2.0's Extended Type System
Chapter 2 Strings
1. Introduction
2. Testing If a String Ends with Another String
3. Finding the Position of a Substring
4. Removing Specific Characters from a String
5. Finding Substrings from the End of a String
6. Duplicating a String N Times
7. Reversing a String
8. Replacing Text
9. Converting Case
10. Tokenizing a String
11. Making Do Without Regular Expressions
12. Exploiting Regular Expressions
13. Using the EXSLT String Extensions
Chapter 3 Numbers and Math
1. Introduction
2. Formatting Numbers
3. Rounding Numbers to a Specified Precision
4. Converting from Roman Numerals to Numbers
5. Converting from One Base to Another
6. Implementing Common Math Functions
7. Computing Sums and Products
8. Finding Minimums and Maximums
9. Computing Statistical Functions
10. Computing Combinatorial Functions
11. Testing Bits
Chapter 4 Dates and Times
1. Introduction
2. Calculating the Day of the Week
3. Determining the Last Day of the Month
4. Getting Names for Days and Months
5. Calculating Julian and Absolute Day Numbers from a Specified Date
6. Calculating the Week Number for aSpecified Date
7. Working with the Julian Calendar
8. Working with the ISO Calendar
9. Working with the Islamic Calendar
10. Working with the Hebrew Calendar
11. Formatting Dates and Times
12. Determining Secular and Religious Holidays
Chapter 5 Selecting and Traversing
1. Introduction
2. Ignoring Duplicate Elements
3. Selecting All but a Specific Element
4. Selecting Nodes by Context
5. Performing a Preorder Traversal
6. Performing a Postorder Traversal
7. Performing an In-Order Traversal
8. Performing a Level-Order Traversal
9. Processing Nodes by Position
Chapter 6 Exploiting XSLT 2.0
1. Introduction
2. Convert Simple Named Templates to XSLT Functions
3. Prefer for-each-group over Muenchian Method of Grouping
4. Modularizing and Modes
5. Using Types for Safety and Precision
6. Avoiding 1.0 to 2.0 Porting Pitfalls
7. Emulating Object-Oriented Reuse and Design Patterns
8. Processing Unstructured Text with Regular Expressions
9. Solving Difficult Serialization Problems with Character Maps
10. Outputting Multiple Documents
11. Handling String Literals Containing Quote Characters
12. Understanding the New Capabilities of Old XSLT 1.0 Features
Chapter 7 XML to Text
1. Introduction
2. Dealing with Whitespace
3. Exporting XML to Delimited Data
4. Creating a Columnar Report
5. Displaying a Hierarchy
6. Numbering Textual Output
7. Wrapping Text to a Specified Width and Alignment
Chapter 8 XML to XML
1. Introduction
2. Converting Attributes to Elements
3. Converting Elements to Attributes
4. Renaming Elements or Attributes
5. Merging Documents with Identical Schema
6. Merging Documents with Unlike Schema
7. Splitting Documents
8. Flattening an XML Hierarchy
9. Deepening an XML Hierarchy
10. Reorganizing an XML Hierarchy
Chapter 9 Querying XML
1. Introduction
2. Performing Set Operations on Node Sets
3. Performing Set Operations on Node Sets Using Value Semantics
4. Determining Set Equality by Value
5. Performing Structure-Preserving Queries
6. Joins
7. Implementing the W3C XML Query-UseCases in XSLT
Chapter 10 XML to HTML
1. Introduction
2. Using XSLT as a Styling Language
3. Creating Hyperlinked Documents
4. Creating HTML Tables
5. Creating Frames
6. Creating Data-Driven Stylesheets
7. Creating a Self-Contained HTML Transformation
8. Populating a Form
Chapter 11 XML to SVG
1. Introduction
2. Transforming an Existing Boilerplate SVG
3. Creating Reusable SVG Generation Utilities for Graphs and Charts
4. Creating a Tree Diagram
5. Creating Interactive SVG-Enabled Web Pages
Chapter 12 Code Generation
1. Introduction
2. Generating Constant Definitions
3. Generating Switching Code
4. Generating Message-Handling Stub Code
5. Generating Data Wrappers
6. Generating Pretty Printers
7. Generating a Test Data-Entry Web Client
8. Generating Test-Entry Web CGI
9. Generating Code from UML Models via XMI
10. Generating XSLT from XSLT
Chapter 13 Vertical XSLT Application Recipes
1. Introduction
2. Converting Visio VDX Documents to SVG
3. Working with Excel XML Spreadsheets
4. Generating XTM Topic Maps from UML Modelsvia XMI
5. Generating Web Sites from XTM Topic Maps
6. Serving SOAP Documentation from WSDL
Chapter 14 Extending and Embedding XSLT
1. Introduction
2. Saxon Extension Functions
3. Saxon Extension Elements
4. Xalan-Java 2 Extension Functions
5. Java Extension Function Using the Class Format Namespace
6. Java Extension Function Using the Package Format Namespace
7. Java Extension Function Using the Java Format Namespace
8. Scripting Extension Function Using Inline Script Code
9. Xalan-Java 2 Extension Elements
10. Java Extension Element
11. Scripting Extension Elements
12. MSXML Extension Functions
13. Using Saxon's and Xalan's Native Extensions
14. Extending XSLT with JavaScript
15. Adding Extension Functions Using Java
16. Adding Extension Elements Using Java
17. Using XSLT from Perl
18. Using XSLT from Java
Chapter 15 Testing and Debugging
1. Introduction
2. Using xsl:message Effectively
3. Tracing the Flow of Your Stylesheet Through Its Input Document
4. Automating the Insertion of Debug Output
5. Including Embedded Unit Test Data in Utility Stylesheets
6. Structuring Unit Tests
7. Testing Boundary and Error Conditions
Chapter 16 Generic and Functional Programming
1. Introduction
2. Creating Polymorphic XSLT
3. Creating Generic Element Aggregation Functions
4. Creating Generic Bounded Aggregation Functions
5. Creating Generic Mapping Functions
6. Creating Generic Node-Set Generators

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Title:

XSLT Cookbook, 2nd Edition

By:

Sal Mangano

Publisher:

O'Reilly Media

Formats:

Print
Ebook
Safari Books Online

Print:

December 2005

Ebook:

February 2009

Pages:

778

Print ISBN:

978-0-596-00974-8

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0-596-00974-7

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978-0-596-10556-3

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Table of Contents

Product Details

About the Author

Recommended for You

Chapter 1 XPath

Introduction

Effectively Using Axes

Filtering Nodes

Working with Sequences

Shrinking Conditional Code with If Expressions

Eliminating Recursion with for Expressions

Taming Complex Logic Using Quantifiers

Using Set Operations

Using Node Comparisons

Coping with XPath 2.0's Extended Type System

Exploiting XPath 2.0's Extended Type System

Chapter 2 Strings

Introduction

Testing If a String Ends with Another String

Finding the Position of a Substring

Removing Specific Characters from a String

Finding Substrings from the End of a String

Duplicating a String N Times

Reversing a String

Replacing Text

Converting Case

Tokenizing a String

Making Do Without Regular Expressions

Exploiting Regular Expressions

Using the EXSLT String Extensions

Chapter 3 Numbers and Math

Introduction

Formatting Numbers

Rounding Numbers to a Specified Precision

Converting from Roman Numerals to Numbers

Converting from One Base to Another

Implementing Common Math Functions

Computing Sums and Products

Finding Minimums and Maximums

Computing Statistical Functions

Computing Combinatorial Functions

Testing Bits

Chapter 4 Dates and Times

Introduction

Calculating the Day of the Week

Determining the Last Day of the Month

Getting Names for Days and Months

Calculating Julian and Absolute Day Numbers from a Specified Date

Calculating the Week Number for aSpecified Date

Working with the Julian Calendar

Working with the ISO Calendar

Working with the Islamic Calendar

Working with the Hebrew Calendar

Formatting Dates and Times

Determining Secular and Religious Holidays

Chapter 5 Selecting and Traversing

Introduction

Ignoring Duplicate Elements

Selecting All but a Specific Element

Selecting Nodes by Context

Performing a Preorder Traversal

Performing a Postorder Traversal

Performing an In-Order Traversal

Performing a Level-Order Traversal

Processing Nodes by Position

Chapter 6 Exploiting XSLT 2.0

Introduction

Convert Simple Named Templates to XSLT Functions

Prefer for-each-group over Muenchian Method of Grouping

Modularizing and Modes

Using Types for Safety and Precision

Avoiding 1.0 to 2.0 Porting Pitfalls

Emulating Object-Oriented Reuse and Design Patterns

Processing Unstructured Text with Regular Expressions

Solving Difficult Serialization Problems with Character Maps

Outputting Multiple Documents

Handling String Literals Containing Quote Characters

Understanding the New Capabilities of Old XSLT 1.0 Features

Chapter 7 XML to Text

Introduction

Dealing with Whitespace

Exporting XML to Delimited Data

Creating a Columnar Report

Displaying a Hierarchy