Conclusion. There is much more to both XSLT and the XML::XSLT module. This short article is just to give an introduction to the module.

Daniel Veillard, the maintainer of libxslt, the GNOME XSLT library, has announced its first stable release, version 1.0.0.

Here's a secret - if you want scalability - check out XML, XSL and XSLT Processors. What's a XSLT Processor? It's an idea that makes rendering XML and XSL a breeze. And guess what? Microsoft's .NET provides a class, XSLTransform, that's going to make your life a breeze. Pretty sweet, eh? What's fantastic about XSL Transform is that you can output all of your content (data, links, frequencies, etc.) into XML, then transform it into whatever you desire (text, html, xml, aspx) using XSL.

Attendees to the first XSLT-UK conference last weekend were surprised to discover that the XSL Working Group have decided to cancel plans to develop XSLT 1.1. The 1.1 functionality will be added to the 2.0 specification instead.

XSLT is often considered to be too verbose. As stylesheet code grows, it tends to be unreadable. This is not a fate stylesheet authors have to accept. There are some strategies to keep your XSLT code short. This article proposes some ways of shorten stylesheets without loss of functionality, and throws a glance at XSLT 2.0 user defined functions.

I found this old article by Jason Diamond via Leigh Dodds. The article describes the same technique I was referring to in a previous entry. The article refers to an even older article by Eric van der Vlist describing the same technique.

The Sun-Netscape Alliance, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle are all listed among the vendors hoping to push XSLT into their products and into common use. All of these vendors (save Sun) have existing support for XSLT, and the Sun-Netscape Alliance is adding XSLT to its iPlanet application server in version 6.0.

That covers five basics of XSLT 1.0. This article is only a starting point to get you rolling. There is much, much more to learn about XSLT.

Consumers expect a lot out of mobile devices. You need to consider how your application will perform on multiple platforms, and make it simple, smooth, and transparent to the user. This article by Daniel Appelquist suggests a simple two-step approach, using XSLT, to help manage some of this complexity.

This example demonstrates using XSLT to output text files (as opposed to the usual HTML or XML files). Assume we have been given the following set of XML records and their schema and wish to store them in a database. Most relational databases support some kind of text-based import utility for just this purpose. In this example, we will transform the above XML files into two data files suitable for use with Microsoft SQL Server's command-line BCP (Bulk Copy Program) utility. We will have to convert the input XML into a comma-delimited DAT file, and an input XML schema into a space-delimited FMT file.

The GNOME project, an open source umbrella projects like Apache and KDE, has spawned several useful subprojects. A few years ago the increase of interest in XML processing in GNOME led to the development of a base XML processing library and, subsequently, an XSLT library, both of which are written in C, the foundational language of GNOME. These libraries, libxml and libxslt, are popular for users of C, but also those of the many other languages for which wrappers have been written, as well as language-agnostic users who want good command-line tools.

Because the style sheet and the source document in an XSLT transformation have different rules regarding white space stripping, it often seems as though the production of spaces and line breaks has no rhyme or reason in the process. This tip shows you how to control the production of white space in a transformation's result, which can lead to documents that more closely align with your requirements.

Despite its simplicity and its original purpose, XSLT is an extremely rich and powerful programming language. Just about anything that can be done with XML can be implemented in XSLT -- all it really takes is a little bit of creativity and a whole lot of pointy brackets.

RSS With XSLT - An article from The Perl Review; rss.xml - the RSS feed for this module. Resources. http://backend.userland.com/rss092

XSLT in Perspective. James Clark. jjc@jclark.com. XSLT. XSL Transformations. W3C Working Draft. Nearly finished. Two documents. XSLT. XPath.

This article describes how an XSLT processor, in this case the author's open-source Saxon, actually works. Although several open

XSLT's xsl:sort instruction lets you sort a group of similar elements. Attributes for this element let you add details about how you want the sort done -- for example, you can sort using alphabetic or numeric ordering, sort on multiple keys, and reverse the sort order.

Introduction. Will walk through an example In this, and the previous article, I am walking you through some simple XML code, and some corresponding XSLT code.

Introducing XSLT JUN 22, 2001 By Steven Holzner. Article is provided courtesy of New Riders.

by Antti Huotari. July 6th, 2000. Update III: I have written an article about using PHP's XSLT functions with XSLT parameters. (Mar 24th, 2001).