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.NET & XML

by Niel M. Bornstein

November 2003

Intermediate to advanced

476 pages

14h 38m

English

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2.2.3.1. XmlTextReader2.2.3.2. XmlValidatingReader2.2.3.3. XmlNodeReader
3.1.1.1. File access and permissions3.1.1.2. Encodings and StreamWriter
3.1.2.1. Writing data with Sockets3.1.2.2. Writing data with WebRequest
4.1.2.1. Writing the skeleton4.1.2.2. Defining the PYX traversal mechanism4.1.2.3. Storing the Node instance data4.1.2.4. Writing the tests4.1.2.5. Filling in the stubs
6.1.1.1. Parts of an XPath expression6.1.1.2. Selecting elements6.1.1.3. Selecting attributes6.1.1.4. Selecting text, comments, and processing instructions6.1.1.5. Selecting nodes by value
6.2.1.1. Selecting a single node6.2.1.2. Selecting multiple nodes6.2.1.3. Creating an XPathNavigator
6.2.3.1. Using a custom XmlReader6.2.3.2. Using a custom XPathNavigator
7.3.3.1. Creating a stylesheet7.3.3.2. Manipulating an existing stylesheet
7.3.4.1. Embedded scripts7.3.4.2. Adding parameters with XsltArgumentList7.3.4.3. Adding extensions with XsltArgumentList
9.1.1.1. The SOAP envelope9.1.1.2. Encoding rules9.1.1.3. RPC representation
10.2.3.1. Issuing an HTTP GET request10.2.3.2. Issuing an HTTP POST request10.2.3.3. Issuing a SOAP request
10.2.6.1. The UDDI data model10.2.6.2. The UDDI APIs
12.2.3.1. Member availability and flags12.2.3.2. Functional grouping of members
15.2.2.1. Choosing a configuration section handler15.2.2.2. Defining the configuration section15.2.2.3. Adding the configuration section15.2.2.4. Reading the custom configuration programmatically

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Chapter 7. Transforming XML with XSLT

You now know how to read XML from a variety of data sources and formats, write XML documents in different formats from arbitrary data structures, create and manipulate XML documents in memory using the DOM, and navigate through any XML tree using XPath. Each of these functions builds on those that came before to open up a new series of possibilities.

The next logical step is to transform the presentation of XML data from one format to another. Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) is designed to do just that.

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a language designed to provide presentation for the content of XML documents. It is composed of three parts: XSLT, XPath (which you’re already familiar with from Chapter 6), and XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO).

In this chapter, I’ll show you XSLT and the .NET assembly that deals with it, System.Xml.Xsl. But first, some background.

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Chapter 7. Transforming XML with XSLT

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