| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| An XML Primer | p. 1 |
| A Brief History of XML | p. 2 |
| Anatomy of an XML Document | p. 5 |
| Internationalization Using XML | p. 10 |
| XML As a Meta-Language | p. 10 |
| W3C Standards Related to XML | p. 13 |
| Summary | p. 19 |
| An Introduction to XSLT | p. 21 |
| What Is XSLT? | p. 22 |
| The Search for Structure and Meaning | p. 24 |
| XSLT Feature Overview | p. 34 |
| How XSLT Works | p. 40 |
| Summary | p. 45 |
| XML and XSLT Applications | p. 47 |
| The Power of XML | p. 48 |
| Extending XML: The Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations | p. 55 |
| The Structure of an XML/XSLT Application | p. 57 |
| Summary | p. 60 |
| The Structure of an XSLT Stylesheet | p. 61 |
| General Stylesheet Structure | p. 62 |
| XSLT Version and Forwards-Compatible Mode | p. 69 |
| Top-Level Stylesheet Elements | p. 71 |
| Embedding Stylesheets | p. 79 |
| Summary | p. 81 |
| Expressions | p. 83 |
| XSLT and XPath Expression Overview | p. 84 |
| Coding XPath Expressions | p. 90 |
| XPath Functions | p. 109 |
| Summary | p. 112 |
| Template Rules | p. 113 |
| XSLT Processing Model | p. 114 |
| Defining and Applying Template Rules | p. 114 |
| Applying Conflict Resolution Template Rules | p. 118 |
| Overriding Template Rules | p. 119 |
| Using Modes | p. 121 |
| Using Built-in Template Rules | p. 123 |
| Using Named Templates | p. 125 |
| Summary | p. 127 |
| Creating the XSLT Result Tree | p. 129 |
| What Comes Out of an XSLT Stylesheet? | p. 130 |
| Creating the Result Tree | p. 132 |
| Performing Conditional Processing | p. 150 |
| Summary | p. 157 |
| Variables and Parameters | p. 159 |
| Variables and Parameters Defined | p. 160 |
| Variable Data Types | p. 162 |
| Setting Default Values | p. 165 |
| Global and Local Variables | p. 167 |
| Use of xsl:param | p. 173 |
| Summary | p. 176 |
| Creating Stylesheet Output | p. 177 |
| Numbering Output | p. 178 |
| Introducing xsl:output | p. 191 |
| Generating Informative or Exception Output with xsl:message | p. 198 |
| Summary | p. 199 |
| XSL/XSLT Power Programming | p. 201 |
| Sorting | p. 202 |
| Extensions | p. 209 |
| Fallback | p. 211 |
| Keys | p. 214 |
| Number Formatting | p. 218 |
| Additional Functions | p. 220 |
| Summary | p. 223 |
| Practical XSLT Examples | p. 225 |
| Real-World XSLT Applications | p. 226 |
| XSLT Application Examples | p. 228 |
| Summary | p. 266 |
| XSLT in the Enterprise | p. 267 |
| Client-Side XSLT | p. 268 |
| Processing Syndicated Content | p. 272 |
| Building Presentation-Independent Applications | p. 272 |
| B2B Integration and EAI Using XSLT | p. 282 |
| Deployment Issues | p. 289 |
| Summary | p. 291 |
| Programming Tools and Technologies | p. 293 |
| Programming with XSLT | p. 294 |
| Programming Languages and XSLT | p. 297 |
| XSLT Programming Models | p. 303 |
| Summary | p. 316 |
| XSLT2 and XPath2: The Evolving Standards | p. 317 |
| How XSLT 1.1 Differs from XSLT 1.0 | p. 318 |
| Major Changes from XSLT 1.1 to 2.0 | p. 320 |
| Review of the W3C XSL Working Group | p. 321 |
| XSL and XSLT Resources | p. 325 |
| Glossary | p. 329 |
| Index | p. 335 |
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