SECOND EDITION. XSLT Cookbook. Sal Mangano. O'REILLY' Beijing Cambridge Farnham Kb'ln Paris Sebastopol Taipei Tokyo

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1 SECOND EDITION XSLT Cookbook Sal Mangano O'REILLY' Beijing Cambridge Farnham Kb'ln Paris Sebastopol Taipei Tokyo

2 Table of Contents? Preface 1. XPath 1.1 Effectively Using Axes 1.2 Filtering Nodes 1.3 Working with Sequences 1.4 Shrinking Conditional Code with If Expressions 1.5 Eliminating Recursion with for Expressions 1.6 Taming Complex Logic Using Quantifiers 1.7 Using Set Operations 1.8 Using Node Comparisons 1.9 Coping with XPath 2.0's Extended Type System 1.10 Exploiting XPath 2.0's Extended Type System 2. Strings 2.1 Testing If a String Ends with Another String 2.2 Finding the Position of a Substring 2.3 Removing Specific Characters from a String 2.4 Finding Substrings from the End of a String 2.5 Duplicating a String N Times 2.6 Reversing a String 2.7 Replacing Text 2.8 Converting Case 2.9 Tokenizing a String 2.10 Making Do Without Regular Expressions 2.11 Exploiting Regular Expressions 2.12 Using the EXSLT String Extensions xi

3 3. Numbers and Math Formatting Numbers Rounding Numbers to a Specified Precision Converting from Roman Numerals to Numbers Converting from One Base to Another Implementing Common Math Functions Computing Sums and Products Finding Minimums and Maximums Computing Statistical Functions Computing Combinatorial Functions Testing Bits Dates and Times Calculating the Day of the Week Determining the Last Day of the Month Getting Names for Days and Months Calculating Julian and Absolute Day Numbers from a Specified Date Calculating the Week Number for a Specified Date Working with the Julian Calendar Working with the ISO Calendar Working with the Islamic Calendar Working with the Hebrew Calendar Formatting Dates and Times Determining Secular and Religious Holidays Selecting and Traversing Ignoring Duplicate Elements Selecting All but a Specific Element Selecting Nodes by Context Performing a Preorder Traversal Performing a Postorder Traversal Performing an In-Order Traversal Performing a Level-Order Traversal Processing Nodes by Position Exploiting XSLT Convert Simple Named Templates to XSLT Functions Prefer for-each-group over Muenchian Method of Grouping 192 i I Table of Contents

4 6.3 Modularizing and Modes 6.4 Using Types for Safety and Precision 6.5 Avoiding 1.0 to 2.0 Porting Pitfalls 6.6 Emulating Object-Oriented Reuse and Design Patterns 6.7 Processing Unstructured Text with Regular Expressions 6.8 Solving Difficult Serialization Problems with Character Maps 6.9 Outputting Multiple Documents 6.10 Handling String Literals Containing Quote Characters 6.11 Understanding the New Capabilities of Old XSLT 1.0 Features 7. XML to Text 7.1 Dealing with Whitespace 7.2 Exporting XML to Delimited Data 7.3 Creating a Columnar Report 7.4 Displaying a Hierarchy 7.5 Numbering Textual Output 7.6 Wrapping Text to a Specified Width and Alignment 8. XMLtoXML 8.1 Converting Attributes to Elements 8.2 Converting Elements to Attributes 8.3 Renaming Elements or Attributes 8.4 Merging Documents with Identical Schema 8.5 Merging Documents with Unlike Schema 8.6 Splitting Documents 8.7 Flattening an XML Hierarchy 8.8 Deepening an XML Hierarchy 8.9 Reorganizing an XML Hierarchy 9. Querying XML 9.1 Performing Set Operations on Node Sets 9.2 Performing Set Operations on Node Sets Using Value Semantics 9.3 Determining Set Equality by Value 9.4 Performing Structure-Preserving Queries 9.5 Joins 9.6 Implementing the W3C XML Query-Use Cases in XSLT 10. XML to HTML 10.1 Using XSLT as a Styling Language 10.2 Creating Hyperlinked Documents Table of Contents vii

5 10.3 Creating HTML Tables Creating Frames Creating Data-Driven Stylesheets Creating a Self-Contained HTML Transformation Populating a Form XML to SVG Transforming an Existing Boilerplate SVG Creating Reusable SVG Generation Utilities for Graphs and Charts Creating a Tree Diagram Creating Interactive SVG-Enabled Web Pages Code Generation Generating Constant Definitions Generating Switching Code Generating Message-Handling Stub Code Generating Data Wrappers Generating Pretty Printers Generating a Test Data-Entry Web Client Generating Test-Entry Web CGI Generating Code from UML Models via XMI Generating XSLT from XSLT Vertical XSLT Application Recipes Converting Visio VDX Documents to SVG Working with Excel XML Spreadsheets Generating XTM Topic Maps from UML Models via XMI Generating Web Sites from XTM Topic Maps Serving SOAP Documentation from WSDL Extending and Embedding XSLT Saxon Extension Functions Saxon Extension Elements Xalan-Java 2 Extension Functions Java Extension Function Using the Class Format Namespace Java Extension Function Using the Package Format Namespace Java Extension Function Using the Java Format Namespace Scripting Extension Function Using Inline Script Code Xalan-Java 2 Extension Elements Java Extension Element 612 viii I Table of Contents

6 14.10 Scripting Extension Elements MSXML Extension Functions Using Saxon's and Xalan's Native Extensions Extending XSLT with JavaScript Adding Extension Functions Using Java Adding Extension Elements Using Java Using XSLT from Perl Using XSLT from Java Testing and Debugging Using xsl:message Effectively Tracing the Flow of Your Stylesheet Through Its Input Document Automating the Insertion of Debug Output Including Embedded Unit Test Data in Utility Stylesheets Structuring Unit Tests Testing Boundary and Error Conditions Generic and Functional Programming Creating Polymorphic XSLT Creating Generic Element Aggregation Functions Creating Generic Bounded Aggregation Functions Creating Generic Mapping Functions Creating Generic Node-Set Generators 728 Index 733 Table of Contents