• OpenHouse
• 2008-10-21

Open House: XSL Training

This is the page for the Open House: XSL Training which is taking place October 21, 2008, on-site in Austin, TX.

Objectives

The primary objectives of this course are:

• Practice XSL scripting
• Exchange ideas about XML
• Hang out and have fun
• Evolve a more format cirriculum

Setting Up

All participants will need an XSL engine for practicing what we discuss. Following are links to a few XSL engines on Windows:

• nxslt (Requires .NET 2.0)

• msxsl (May require msxml runtime)

• msxml 4.0 (May be required by msxsl)

If you're on Mac OS X, xsltproc is available from a Terminal shell.

Following is a link to a zip file which contains two small starting point files:

• hello.zip

Jargon

XPath: XPath is a language for selecting parts of an XML document (from the w3c Abstract)

Root Match Template: Root match template refers to that match template in any XSL stylesheet which is executed, that is, the template which matches the root of the XML input,as in: <xsl:template match="/">

XML Namespace: XML namespaces provide a simple method for qualifying element and attribute names used in XML documents by associating them with namespaces identified by URI references