Processing XML with XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery

OCI - Education & Training - 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.

Contents

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 Apr 07, 2010 Apr 09, 2010 W-F, 9am-4:30pm 18 CAIT
  St. Louis Jun 07, 2010 Jun 23, 2010 M/W, 5:30pm-8:30pm 18 CAIT
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