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Introduction to XSLT

I've been slacking on blogging my pieces as they get published on IBM's developerWorks, but Introduction to XSLT is being featured on the home page this week, so it reminded me. :)

So here it is...

Introduction to XSLT

The need to transform XML is so common that Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is considered one of the basic XML specifications. This tutorial explains how to create XSLT stylesheets. It also covers the basics of XPath, which enables you to select specific parts of an XML document. Finally, it gives you a look at some of the more advanced capabilities that XSLT offers.

This tutorial is for developers who want to use Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to transform the XML data into other forms without the need for to program in Java™ or other languages.

Objectives

* The basics of XSLT

* Using simple templates

* Propagating data

* Controlling spaces

* The basics of XPath

* XPath functions

* Looping and conditional statements

* Extending XSLT

* XSLT variables

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