Processing XML with XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery

Goals

After completing this seminar, participants will be able to:

Know how to write XPath expressions
Be able to format HTML and XML with CSS
Know how to use XSLT to transform XML documents into HTML, XML and other text
Be able to use the advanced features of XSLT
Know how to generate PDF documents from XML data using XSL-FO
Be able to use XQuery to extract data from XML

Audience

Programmers that need to transform XML, query XML, or present XML in alternate formats such as HTML and PDF.

Duration

3 days

Prerequisites

The "eXtensible Markup Language (XML)" course or equivalent experience.

XML review
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Simplified vs. standard XSLT stylesheets
XPath
Transforming XML to HTML
CSS and JavaScript in XSLT
Sorting, reordering and filtering
Conditional processing and looping
Variables and parameters
Named templates
Template recursion
Template modes
Schema changes
Template factoring and reuse
XSLT for code generation
XSL-FO
XQuery

Format

Lecture and programming exercises

Schedule

Course	Location	Begin Date	End Date	Time	Hours	Register
Processing XML with XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery	St. Louis	Jun 16, 2008	Jul 02, 2008	M/W, 5:30-8:30pm	18	CAIT
	St. Louis	Aug 18, 2008	Aug 20, 2008	M-W, 9am-4:30pm	18	CAIT