XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition

Preface

1. XPath
      1.1 Effectively Using Axes
      1.2 Filtering Nodes
      1.3 Working with Sequences
      1.4 Shrinking Conditional Code with If Expressions
      1.5 Eliminating Recursion with for Expressions
      1.6 Taming Complex Logic Using Quantifiers
      1.7 Using Set Operations
      1.8 Using Node Comparisons
      1.9 Coping with XPath 2.0's Extended Type System
      1.10 Exploiting XPath 2.0's Extended Type System

2. Strings
      2.1 Testing If a String Ends with Another String
      2.2 Finding the Position of a Substring
      2.3 Removing Specific Characters from a String
      2.4 Finding Substrings from the End of a String
      2.5 Duplicating a String N Times
      2.6 Reversing a String
      2.7 Replacing Text
      2.8 Converting Case
      2.9 Tokenizing a String
      2.10 Making Do Without Regular Expressions
      2.11 Exploiting Regular Expressions
      2.12 Using the EXSLT String Extensions

3. Numbers and Math
      3.1 Formatting Numbers
      3.2 Rounding Numbers to a Specified Precision
      3.3 Converting from Roman Numerals to Numbers
      3.4 Converting from One Base to Another
      3.5 Implementing Common Math Functions
      3.6 Computing Sums and Products
      3.7 Finding Minimums and Maximums
      3.8 Computing Statistical Functions
      3.9 Computing Combinatorial Functions
      3.10 Testing Bits

4. Dates and Times
      4.1 Calculating the Day of the Week
      4.2 Determining the Last Day of the Month
      4.3 Getting Names for Days and Months
      4.4 Calculating Julian and Absolute Day Numbersfrom a Specified Date
      4.5 Calculating the Week Number for aSpecified Date
      4.6 Working with the Julian Calendar
      4.7 Working with the ISO Calendar
      4.8 Working with the Islamic Calendar
      4.9 Working with the Hebrew Calendar
      4.10 Formatting Dates and Times
      4.11 Determining Secular and Religious Holidays

5. Selecting and Traversing
      5.1 Ignoring Duplicate Elements
      5.2 Selecting All but a Specific Element
      5.3 Selecting Nodes by Context
      5.4 Performing a Preorder Traversal
      5.5 Performing a Postorder Traversal
      5.6 Performing an In-Order Traversal
      5.7 Performing a Level-Order Traversal
      5.8 Processing Nodes by Position

6. Exploiting XSLT 2.0
      6.1 Convert Simple Named Templates to XSLT Functions
      6.2 Prefer for-each-group over Muenchian Method of Grouping
      6.3 Modularizing and Modes
      6.4 Using Types for Safety and Precision
      6.5 Avoiding 1.0 to 2.0 Porting Pitfalls
      6.6 Emulating Object-Oriented Reuse and Design Patterns
      6.7 Processing Unstructured Text with Regular Expressions
      6.8 Solving Difficult Serialization Problems with Character Maps
      6.9 Outputting Multiple Documents
      6.10 Handling String Literals Containing Quote Characters
      6.11 Understanding the New Capabilities of Old XSLT 1.0 Features

7. XML to Text
      7.1 Dealing with Whitespace
      7.2 Exporting XML to Delimited Data
      7.3 Creating a Columnar Report
      7.4 Displaying a Hierarchy
      7.5 Numbering Textual Output
      7.6 Wrapping Text to a Specified Width and Alignment

8. XML to XML
      8.1 Converting Attributes to Elements
      8.2 Converting Elements to Attributes
      8.3 Renaming Elements or Attributes
      8.4 Merging Documents with Identical Schema
      8.5 Merging Documents with Unlike Schema
      8.6 Splitting Documents
      8.7 Flattening an XML Hierarchy
      8.8 Deepening an XML Hierarchy
      8.9 Reorganizing an XML Hierarchy

9. Querying XML
      9.1 Performing Set Operations on Node Sets
      9.2 Performing Set Operations on Node Sets Using Value Semantics
      9.3 Determining Set Equality by Value
      9.4 Performing Structure-Preserving Queries
      9.5 Joins
      9.6 Implementing the W3C XML Query-Use Cases in XSLT

10. XML to HTML
      10.1 Using XSLT as a Styling Language
      10.2 Creating Hyperlinked Documents
      10.3 Creating HTML Tables
      10.4 Creating Frames
      10.5 Creating Data-Driven Stylesheets
      10.6 Creating a Self-Contained HTML Transformation
      10.7 Populating a Form

11. XML to SVG
      11.1 Transforming an Existing Boilerplate SVG
      11.2 Creating Reusable SVG Generation Utilities for Graphs and Charts
      11.3 Creating a Tree Diagram
      11.4 Creating Interactive SVG-Enabled Web Pages

12. Code Generation
      12.1 Generating Constant Definitions
      12.2 Generating Switching Code
      12.3 Generating Message-Handling Stub Code
      12.4 Generating Data Wrappers
      12.5 Generating Pretty Printers
      12.6 Generating a Test Data-Entry Web Client
      12.7 Generating Test-Entry Web CGI
      12.8 Generating Code from UML Models via XMI
      12.9 Generating XSLT from XSLT

13. Vertical XSLT Application Recipes
      13.1 Converting Visio VDX Documents to SVG
      13.2 Working with Excel XML Spreadsheets
      13.3 Generating XTM Topic Maps from UML Models via XMI
      13.4 Generating Web Sites from XTM Topic Maps
      13.5 Serving SOAP Documentation from WSDL

14. Extending and Embedding XSLT
      14.1 Saxon Extension Functions
      14.2 Saxon Extension Elements
      14.3 Xalan-Java 2 Extension Functions
      14.4 Java Extension Function Using the Class Format Namespace
      14.5 Java Extension Function Using the Package Format Namespace
      14.6 Java Extension Function Using the Java Format Namespace
      14.7 Scripting Extension Function Using Inline Script Code
      14.8 Xalan-Java 2 Extension Elements
      14.9 Java Extension Element
      14.10 Scripting Extension Elements
      14.11 MSXML Extension Functions
      14.12 Using Saxon's and Xalan's Native Extensions
      14.13 Extending XSLT with JavaScript
      14.14 Adding Extension Functions Using Java
      14.15 Adding Extension Elements Using Java
      14.16 Using XSLT from Perl
      14.17 Using XSLT from Java

15. Testing and Debugging
      15.1 Using xsl:message Effectively
      15.2 Tracing the Flow of Your Stylesheet Through Its Input Document
      15.3 Automating the Insertion of Debug Output
      15.4 Including Embedded Unit Test Data in Utility Stylesheets
      15.5 Structuring Unit Tests
      15.6 Testing Boundary and Error Conditions

16. Generic and Functional Programming
      16.1 Creating Polymorphic XSLT
      16.2 Creating Generic Element Aggregation Functions
      16.3 Creating Generic Bounded Aggregation Functions
      16.4 Creating Generic Mapping Functions
      16.5 Creating Generic Node-Set Generators

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