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Build and deploy real-world XML and XLST applications using this expert developer's resource. Written by professional enterprise developers, this valuable guide gives you all the technical know-how you need--and offers you multiple options, presenting all programming examples in both Java and Perl.
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Engineer Your Way to Excellence
Maximize the capabilities of XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations with the advanced development strategies in this professional resource. Inside, you'll find full details on designing and building complex, data-driven applications with XSLT that transform XML source documents into interoperable business objects, a variety of presentation formats, and more. The book explains how to work with XSL and XPath and how to customize and reuse stylesheet logic. Deliver flexible, repurposed information using XSLT with help from this definitive guide.
-Use XPath expressions to locate data in an XML document and perform operations on string, numeric, and boolean values
-Code template rules to process structured XML data
-Generate various types of XML nodes using an XSLT stylesheet
-Define variables and parameters in XSLT
-Create HTML, XML, or text output using
-Implement advanced XSLT functionality such as sorting, number formatting, and keys
-Use the real-world code samples presented in the book