Introduction to XSLT (2 days)

Course Outline

• XSLT Basics
  • eXtensible Stylesheet Language
  • An XSLT Stylesheet
    • xsl:template
• xsl:value-of
• Whitespace and xsl:text
• Output Types
  • Text
• XML
• HTML
• XSLT Elements and Attributes
  • xsl:element
• xsl:attribute
• Attributes and Curly Brackets
• XPath
  • XPath in XSLT
• XPath Expression
• XPath Terminology
• Context Node
• Current Node
• Context Size
• Proximity Position
• Location Paths
• Axis
• Node Test
• Predicate
• Accessing Nodes
• Abbreviated Syntax
• XPath Functions
• XPath Operators
• Flow Control in XSLT
  • Looping in XSLT
  • Sorting with XSLT
• Looping and Sorting
• Conditions with XSLT
• XSLT Templates, Parameters and Variables
  • xsl:apply-templates
  • xsl:call-template
• Passing Parameters
• Removing Content
• Template Modes
• Template Priority
  • Default Priorities
  • Assigning Priorities
• XSLT Variables
• Multiple XML and XSLT Documents
  • Including XSLTs
  • Importing XSLTs
  • Conflict resolution
  • The document() Function
• Working with Keys
  • Key Basics
    • The key() Function
    • Improving Performance with Keys
      • Cross References
      • The Key Way
    • Grouping
      • The generate-id() Function
      • Using generate-id() for Grouping
• Advanced XSLT Techniques
  • Working with Numbered Lists
    • The position() function
    • xsl:number
• Outputting Processing Instructions
• Copying Nodes
  • xsl:copy
  • xsl:copy-of
• Tying It All Together

XSLT Training Course Materials

Each student will get a copy of comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class files (XSLT Training published by Webucator).

See also

JavaScript / Cascading Style Sheets /AJAX Training

• Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (2 days)
• Comprehensive JavaScript (5 days)
• Introduction to AJAX (2 days)