Instrumenting and tracing XSLT transformations by treating XSLT as a regular programming language can provide very useful diagnostic data to help analyze and troubleshoot problems.

There are reasonable arguments on both sides. In the end, it was decided to define a conformance level for which schema support was optional.

This article describes the differences and similarities between XSLT 1.0 and XQuery, while outlining the pros and cons of each.

It uses XPath, another W3C standard and part of XSL, to refer to the data in the XML data document. The XPath reference "customer/name" refers to the customer's name in the XML document given in Listing 2.

This section contains an example to create a sortable HTML tables using XSLT.

Open Source tool provider ActiveState released an upgrade of its Visual XSLT IDE plug-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003 at this week's Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in LA.

The various application scenarios that XSLT 1.0 and XQuery are best suited for when used alone, as well as when combined, will be delineated. I'll also explain how to use the standard JAXP transformation API to combine the power of XSLT 1.0 and XQuery. (I'm assuming readers have basic knowledge of XML technologies such as XML Namespace, XSLT, and XQuery.)

You may have heard those letters before, but what do they mean and how do they apply to your Web site? A great new article this month at A List Apart, Using XSLT to Transform XML, will walk you through it with a step-by-step tutorial, providing great explanations along the way.

Through collaborative and coordinated effort between W3C's XML Query Working Group and XSL Working Group, a collection of ten updated working draft specifications has been issued for public review and comment. and XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators are in Last Call WD status through June 30, 2003. XPath 2.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0, and other specifications are dependent upon the data model, functions, and operators defined in these two WDs.

In this tip, Brett McLaughlin tells how to avoid a common pitfall when working with XSLT and the JDOM API for XML developers working in Java. You'll learn how to take a JDOM document representation, transform it using the Apache Xalan processor, and obtain the resulting XML as another JDOM document. Transforming a document using XSLT is a common task, and JDOM makes the transformation go quite easily once you know how to avoid the missteps. The code demonstrates how to use JDOM with the new Apache Xalan 2 processor (for Java).

Open Source tool provider ActiveState has released an upgrade of its Visual XSLT IDE plug-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003 . The Visual XSLT 2.0 upgrade for the Visual Studio .NET IDE leverages some of .NET Framework's deepest code technologies, ActiveState technologists told OET to push the envelop for ease of use and debugging for XML/XSLT programming The result is an upgrade from Visual XSLT 1.0 that sports a just-in-time debugging, a programming-free visual schema mapper and improved project management.

So, you've got all kinds of XML data stored in databases and in the file system and you're anxious to get it on the Web. You're already familiar with XSLT transformations for making HTML out of XML, but is that all you can do with it?

When developing Web applications that use Java and XML there are many options, including (among others) the Apache Struts framework and the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) language.

In this article I will show you how to implement an XslTransform wrapper to trace and profile XSLT transformations at runtime in .NET applications. The source code and supporting files can be downloaded from www.sys-con.com/xml/sourcec.cfm.

One of the things I enjoy most about working with XML and its related technologies is that there is always more to learn. I have been using XML for three years, but not a week goes by that I'm not pleasantly surprised to find something new I can do with it - or, even better, to find an easier way to do something I thought I had already figured out.

This articles discusses about the database driven charting used with XSLT and SVG.

This section contains an example to develope complex XSLT scripts.

In part 1 of this three-part series, we looked at how the xsl:strip-space and xsl:preserve-space instructions let you control extra whitespace from your source tree by element type. This month we'll look at how xsl:text can not only add whitespace where you want it, but also make it easier to prevent unwanted whitespace characters from showing up in your result tree. We'll also look at a built-in XSLT function that lets you make the use of whitespace in your result tree more consistent.

Leverage the strengths of both Struts and XSLT to create dynamic, configurable Web applications

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