Publisher's Synopsis
The definitive guide to XSLT and XPath--written by one of the world's leading authorities.*Authoritative: By one of the world's leading XSLT/XPath experts*Complete: Covers every key facet of the XSLT/XPath W3C specifications*Proven: Based on training materials used by leading corporations*Practical: Hundreds of examples analyzed*Concise: Bullet-point, bite-size presentation helps you master XSLT/XPath fast! Whatever your XML applications--e-business, application integration, Web- and paper-based publishing, or content management--you need to master XSLT and XPath, today's key tools for transforming information into new and varied structured vocabularies and output formats. Definitive XSLT & XPath delivers concise, authoritative coverage of every key facet of these W3C recommendations. Nobody has taught more about XSLT and XPath than G. Ken Holman--chair of OASIS's XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Subcommittee and long-time leader in the XML community. In this book, Holman draws upon live training materials to help you master the XSLT and XPath standards--fast--just as he's done for thousands of developers.;*Getting started with XSL transformations and the XML Path language: capabilities, concepts, and key techniques*An in-depth introduction to the XPath data model *Mastering XSLT's processing model and transformation environment *Practical techniques for XSLT stylesheet management and process control *Advanced techniques: XPath and XSLT expressions, sorting, grouping, and more*XML-to-HTML transformation, basic XML-to-XSL formatting concepts, questions to ask XSLT/XPath tool vendorsWhen you're ready to get results, go straight to the source: G. Ken Holman's Definitive XSLT & XPath. "The key to XML application development is transformations-converting XML data into other forms with XSLT and XPath. Ken Holman is the expert I rely on for advice on this subject. Now you can, too, with this book."--Charles F. Goldfarb
