Practical XML for the Web

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Summary

You've heard the hype and the excitement - now here's a book that brings practicality to the party. In context, but avoiding lengthy history lessons, we show you why XML is great to get into, and how to get up and running with it quickly. Using XML appropriately can make your markup future-proof and standards-compliant, enhance accessibility and usability, and allow data to be shared between almost any language/platform combinations and rendered in any future browsers.

What's great about this book?

This book teaches you everything you need to know about using XML effectively in your work today, ommitting endless pages of theory, history lessons, and as-yet-unsupported standards and technologies.

Subject area

After reading this book you will be able to effectively use:

• Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to transform XML, not only into differently structured XML pages, but also into different markup languages for different purposes.
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to style XML/XHTML data for display in a browser.
• JavaScript for further manipulation of XML (for example, via the XML DOM).
• Server-side scripting languages to generate XML.

This is an excerpt from Chapter 5 of "Practical XML for the Web", by glasshaus, (ISBN: 1904151086, copyright glasshaus 2002). It introduces XSLT, going through the basics of using it to transform XML on the client-side, by way of easy-to-follow tutorial examples (we have included the first three examples here). Chapter 6 of the book takes client-side XSLT to a more advanced level, and Chapters 8-11 include coverage of server-side XSLT usage.

Buy this book	Title: Practical XML for the Web
	Author: Alex Shiell, Jon James,Dave Addey,Chris Auld,Jeff Rafter,Paul Spencer,Allan Kent,Inigo Surguy,Oli Gauti Gudmundsson
	ISBN: 1904151086
	US: $39.99 UK: £ 28.99 CA: $ 61.99
	Publication Date: 10/10/2002
	Pages: 480
	© 2002 glasshaus

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