October 12, 2000.ppt

XSLT Overview What is XSLT? Related Recommendations XSLT Elements Associating Stylesheets with Documents Additional Information What is XSLT? A language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents Designed for use both as part of XSL and independently of XSL Not intended as a completely general-purpose XML transformation language. [W3C XSLT Recommendation] XSLT Process XSLT Status W3C Recommendation - November 16, 1999 Version 1.0 Related Recommendations XPath XSL XML Stylesheet Recommendation XSLT Stylesheet Element stylesheet version = “1.0” transform allowed as synonym XSLT Template Element templatematch = expression name = name priority = number mode = name Applying Templates apply-templatesselect = expression mode = name call-template name = name Example 1 Example 2 Repetition for-eachselect = “item” Do something here ... /for-each Example 3 Conditional Processing if test = “position()=last()” Do something … /if Conditional Processing choose when test = “position()=last()” Do something for last element /when when test = “position()=first()” Do something for first element /when otherwise Do something for other elements /otherwise /choose Creating the result tree value-of select=expression element name=string attribute name=string processing-instruction name=string comment text Numbering numbercount = pattern from = pattern value = number-expression format = string/ Combining Stylesheets include href = uri / import href = uri / Some Other Elements copy copy-of sort select=“expression” variable param output Associating Stylesheets with Documents W3C Stylesheets Recommendation Version 1.0 In the xml document: ?xml-stylesheet href=uri type=“text/xsl”? Additional Information XSLT Recommendation Version 1.0 - /TR/xslt XSLT.com - XSLT Reference - /xxl/XSLTreference/Output/index.html match - Xpath expression that identifies the node or nodes to which the rule applies. required un