Definitive XSLT and XPATH Book

	Foreword	xv
	Acknowledgements	xix
Chapter 1	XSLT and XPath in context	1
1.1	The XML family of Recommendations	5
1.1.1	Extensible Markup Language (XML)	5
1.1.2	XML Path Language (XPath)	12
1.1.3	Styling structured information	15
1.1.4	Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL)	17
1.1.5	Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)	20
1.1.6	Namespaces	33
1.1.7	Stylesheet association	38
1.2	Transformation data flows	41
1.2.1	Transformation from XML to XML	41
1.2.2	Transformation from XML to XSL formatting semantics	42
1.2.3	Transformation from XML to non-XML	43
1.2.4	XSLT as an application front-end	49
1.2.5	Three-tiered architectures	50
Chapter 2	Getting started with XSLT and XPath	53
2.1	Stylesheet examples	55
2.1.1	Some simple examples	56
2.2	Syntax basics--stylesheets, templates, instructions	60
2.2.1	Stylesheet requirements	60
2.2.2	Instructions and literal result elements	61
2.2.3	Templates and template rules	63
2.2.4	Simplified stylesheets	65
2.2.5	Composite stylesheets	66
2.2.6	Approaches to stylesheet design	67
2.3	More stylesheet examples	70
2.3.1	Processing XML data with multiple XSLT stylesheets	70
Chapter 3	XPath data model	77
3.1	XPath data model components	83
3.1.1	The file abstractions	83
3.1.2	Comment node and processing instruction node	83
3.1.3	Element node	84
3.1.4	Namespace node	85
3.1.5	Attribute node	86
3.1.6	Text node	88
3.1.7	Whitespace-only text nodes	89
3.1.8	Root node	91
3.1.9	Summary of XPath data model nodes	91
3.1.10	Depiction of a complete node tree	93
3.2	XPath expressions and patterns	97
3.2.1	Expressions	97
3.2.2	Location path expression evaluation context	99
3.2.3	Location path expression structure	100
3.2.4	Example node-set and pattern expressions	107
3.2.5	Location path expression evaluation summary	110
3.2.6	Processing of node-sets from reverse axes	111
Chapter 4	XSLT processing model	113
4.1	XSLT processing model	118
4.1.1	Example transformation requirement	118
4.1.2	Approaches to transformation	121
4.1.3	Calculating result text	122
4.1.4	Iterative template instantiation	126
4.1.5	Template rules	127
4.1.6	Modes	129
4.1.7	Empty templates	130
4.1.8	Built-in template rules	131
4.1.9	Template rule conflict resolution	132
4.1.10	Processing model summary	135
4.1.11	Parallelism	136
4.1.12	Suggested stylesheet development approach	136
4.2	Sample XSLT stylesheets	137
4.2.1	Card sample stylesheets	137
Chapter 5	The XSLT transformation environment	139
5.1	Stylesheet basics	142
5.1.1	The stylesheet document/container element	142
5.1.2	Documenting stylesheets	145
5.1.3	Namespace protection	146
5.2	Communicating with the XSLT processor	148
5.2.1	Serializing the result tree	148
5.2.2	Illustration of output methods	150
5.2.3	Communicating with the outside environment	152
5.2.4	Uncontrolled processes	154
Chapter 6	XSLT stylesheet management	155
6.1	Modularizing the logical structure of stylesheets	160
6.1.1	Internal general entities	160
6.1.2	Variables and parameters	163
6.1.3	Named templates	169
6.1.4	Explicit loop repetition	173
6.2	Modularizing the physical structure of stylesheets	174
6.2.1	External parsed general entities	174
6.2.2	Included files	175
6.2.3	Imported files	176
6.2.4	Extension mechanisms	178
Chapter 7	XSLT process control and result tree instructions	181
7.1	Conditional control instructions	185
7.1.1	"If--Then" conditionality	185
7.1.2	"If--Else If--Else" conditionality	186
7.1.3	Conditional variable assignment	187
7.1.4	Node type testing	188
7.2	Numbering instructions	189
7.2.1	Source tree numbering	189
7.2.2	Representing numbers in the result tree	196
7.3	Result tree node instantiation	198
7.3.1	Building result tree nodes with instructions	198
7.3.2	Building result tree nodes with literal result elements	203
7.3.3	Copying source tree nodes to the result tree	204
7.3.4	Escaping text placed in the result tree	208
Chapter 8	XPath and XSLT expressions and advanced techniques	215
8.1	Expression functions	219
8.1.1	Calculating values using number, string and boolean expression functions	219
8.1.2	Calculating values using number functions	220
8.1.3	Calculating values using string functions	222
8.1.4	Decimal formatting	224
8.1.5	Calculating values using boolean functions	228
8.1.6	Calculating values using node-set-related expression functions	231
8.1.7	Node-set intersection and difference	234
8.1.8	String variables in location steps	236
8.2	Content and document referencing techniques	237
8.2.1	Element referencing with XML identifiers	237
8.2.2	Content referencing with XSLT keys	238
8.2.3	Current node referencing	242
8.2.4	Unparsed entity referencing in XSLT	244
8.2.5	Document referencing in XSLT	245
8.3	Traversing the source tree	250
8.3.1	Inferring structure when there is none	250
8.3.2	Templates as pseudo-subroutines	252
8.3.3	Passing variables to pseudo-subroutines	255
Chapter 9	Sorting and grouping	259
9.1	Sorting source nodes to make result nodes	262
9.1.1	The sort instruction	262
9.2	Grouping constructs found in the source node tree	266
9.2.1	Grouping and uniqueness using axes	266
9.2.2	Grouping and uniqueness using keys	270
9.2.3	Grouping and uniqueness within sub-trees using keys	272
9.3	Other uses of sorting	277
9.3.1	Finding the minimum and maximum values	277
Appendix A	XML to HTML transformation	279
A.1	The W3C web presentation standards context	282
A.1.1	Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)	282
A.1.2	Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)	283
A.1.3	Cascading Stylesheets (CSS)	284
A.1.4	Browser screen painting	285
A.2	Well-formed HTML	286
A.2.1	What makes well-formed and valid HTML?	286
A.3	HTML markup generation techniques	287
A.3.1	Image elements	287
A.3.2	HTML meta-data	289
A.3.3	Anchor elements	290
Appendix B	XSL formatting semantics introduction	295
B.1	Formatting model	301
B.1.1	Summary of formatting model components	301
B.2	Formatting objects	304
B.2.1	Formatting object vocabulary	304
B.3	Example stylesheet with formatting constructs	305
B.3.1	Example stylesheet with formatting constructs	305
Appendix C	Instruction, function, and grammar summaries	309
C.1	Vocabulary and functions	311
C.1.1	XSLT instruction element summary	311
C.1.2	XPath and XSLT function summary	314
C.2	Grammars	317
C.2.1	XPath grammar productions	317
C.2.2	XSLT grammar productions	321
Appendix D	Sample tool information	323
D.1	James Clark's XT	328
D.1.1	XT differences from W3C XSLT/XPath Recommendations	328
D.1.2	Extension element: Multiple output documents	329
D.1.3	Extension functions: Node set manipulation	334
D.1.4	Extension functions: Java library access	336
D.1.5	Extension method: Non-XML serialization	339
D.1.6	Character encoding for the serialized result	342
D.1.7	Invoking XT	343
D.2	Microsoft Internet Explorer 5	345
D.2.1	Invoking the Microsoft MSXML processor	345
Appendix E	From XML to press: An XSLT case study	351
E.1	Authoring and Compilation	353
E.2	Transformation and compositing	356
	Index	361