Introduction

• Role of XSLT in modern applications
• How XSLT and XSL:FO are related

Fundamental concepts of XSLT stylesheets

• Boilerplates for XSLT stylesheets
• Embedding stylesheets in XML documents
• XSLT stylesheet terminology
• XML components of XSLT stylesheets

Advanced stylesheet concepts

• Templates

XPath

• Expressions
• XPath functions

Building new documents with XSLT

• Creating elements with LREs
• The <xsl:element> instruction element
• Creating attributes via <xsl:attribute>
• <xsl:attribute-set>
• <xsl:text>
• Adding attributes to LREs
• Comments and processing instructions

Using multiple stylesheets

• Working with external stylesheets
• Template processing rules and priorities
• Using variable references

Working with variables

• Declaring and binding variables
• Result tree fragments
• Using variable references

Duplication, iteration, and conditional XSLT elements

• Duplication
• Looping with <xsl:for-each>
• Sorting with <xsl:sort>
• Conditionals with <xsl:if>, <xsl:choose>, <xsl:when>, and <xsl:otherwise>
• Using <xsl:number> to manage numbers

Controlling output options

• Using <xsl:output> to set the output format
• Controlling space handling with <xsl:strip-space> and <xsl:preserve-space>

XSLT functions and related XSLT elements

• XSLT function groups
• String XSLT functions

XSLT processors

• Overview of XSLT processors
• Extension elements and functions
• Namespaces

Conclusion