Advanced XSLT and XPath

• XML101 or equivalent experience
• Introduction to XSL or equivalent experience

• Web Programmers
• Web Designers

• Learn why XSLT is necessary
• Develop transformations to enhance a three-tier web architecture
• Use XSLT on the client and middle tiers
• Understand and use XPath, the syntax for identifying objects inside an XML document
• Get beyond the limitations of HTML by delivering information to a browser using XML
• Transform business documents using XSLT

The Extensible Stylesheet Language provides a way to format XML documents in a Web browser. The transformation part of XSL, the W3C Technical Recommendation XSLT, provides a declarative syntax for general-purpose transformations of XML from one structure or schema to another.

The original XSL specification from the W3C contained two major functions: transformation and formatting objects. The transformation part of XSL was removed from the spec and made its own standard, XSLT. XSLT uses another W3C specification, XPath, to identify hierarchival objects inside of an XML document so you can transform the objects to another structure.

This course shows you how you can create simjple and complex tranformations using XSLT and XPath. The in-class workshops provide you with plenty of real-world examples of using XSLT and XPath in this way.

• Course materials
• Code demonstrated in class