XSLT Cookbook

-Selecting All but a Specific Element
-Selecting Nodes by Context
-Performing a Preorder Traversal
-Performing a Postorder Traversal
-Performing an In-Order Traversal
-Performing a Level-Order Traversal
-Processing Nodes by Position

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

7. XML to Text
-Introduction
-Dealing with Whitespace
-Exporting XML to Delimited Data
-Creating a Columnar Report
-Displaying a Hierarchy
-Numbering Textual Output
-Wrapping Text to a Specified Width and Alignment

8. XML to XML
-Introduction
-Converting Attributes to Elements
-Converting Elements to Attributes
-Renaming Elements or Attributes
-Merging Documents with Identical Schema
-Merging Documents with Unlike Schema
-Splitting Documents
-Flattening an XML Hierarchy
-Deepening an XML Hierarchy
-Reorganizing an XML Hierarchy

9. Querying XML
-Introduction
-Performing Set Operations on Node Sets
-Performing Set Operations on Node Sets Using Value Semantics
-Determining Set Equality by Value
-Performing Structure-Preserving Queries
-Joins
-Implementing the W3C XML Query-UseCases in XSLT

10. XML to HTML
-Introduction
-Using XSLT as a Styling Language
-Creating Hyperlinked Documents
-Creating HTML Tables
-Creating Frames
-Creating Data-Driven Stylesheets
-Creating a Self-Contained HTML Transformation
-Populating a Form

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

12. Code Generation
-Introduction
-Generating Constant Definitions
-Generating Switching Code
-Generating Message-Handling Stub Code
-Generating Data Wrappers
-Generating Pretty Printers
-Generating a Test Data-Entry Web Client
-Generating Test-Entry Web CGI
-Generating Code from UML Models via XMI
-Generating XSLT from XSLT

13. Vertical XSLT Application Recipes
-Introduction
-Converting Visio VDX Documents to SVG
-Working with Excel XML Spreadsheets
-Generating XTM Topic Maps from UML Modelsvia XMI
-Generating Web Sites from XTM Topic Maps
-Serving SOAP Documentation from WSDL

14. Extending and Embedding XSLT
-Introduction
-Saxon Extension Functions
-Saxon Extension Elements
-Xalan-Java 2 Extension Functions
-Java Extension Function Using the Class Format Namespace
-Java Extension Function Using the Package Format Namespace
-Java Extension Function Using the Java Format Namespace
-Scripting Extension Function Using Inline Script Code
-Xalan-Java 2 Extension Elements
-Java Extension Element
-Scripting Extension Elements
-MSXML Extension Functions
-Using Saxon's and Xalan's Native Extensions
-Extending XSLT with JavaScript
-Adding Extension Functions Using Java
-Adding Extension Elements Using Java
-Using XSLT from Perl
-Using XSLT from Java

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

16. Generic and Functional Programming
-Introduction
-Creating Polymorphic XSLT
-Creating Generic Element Aggregation Functions
-Creating Generic Bounded Aggregation Functions
-Creating Generic Mapping Functions
-Creating Generic Node-Set Generators

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