Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours, Third Edition

Chapter 12. Transforming XML with XSLT

	I don’t have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.
	--Ashleigh Brilliant

When it comes to transforming XML, it’s safe to admire both the problem and the solution, which just so happens to be XSLT. But you already knew that because in the previous hour you learned the basics of XSLT and were quickly introduced to the XSLT language and the way to use it to create basic XSLT style sheets. This hour picks up where the previous one left off by examining the XSLT language in more detail and showing you some interesting ways in which XSLT can be used to transform XML content. More specifically, you learn how to sort and process nodes, as well as how to perform conditional tests and computational operations ...