June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
986 pages
27h 8m
English
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I Don’t Care Which Standards-Compliant Tools You Use
My job as an author and a teacher is to show you how to use standards-compliant tools to simplify your life. I’m not here to sell you a parser, an XSLT processor, a toaster, or anything else, so please use whatever tools you like. I encourage you to take a look at all of the tools out there and find your own preferences. As I wrote this edition of the book, I used four processors to test the examples:
Almost all of the examples were tested with Michael Kay’s excellent Saxon XSLT processor. The open source edition of Saxon supports all of the XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 specs except for the schema-specific functions. As the editor of the XSLT 2.0 specification, Dr. Kay’s processor is currently the most complete implementation of XSLT 2.0.
Saxon-B (the basic processor without schema support) is available here: http://saxon.sourceforge.net/. The SourceForge project page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon. Saxon is available in Java and .NET versions.
There is also a commercial version of Saxon that includes full schema support. For more information on Saxon-SA, which is the schema-aware version, visit http://www.saxonica.com/.
The XSLT engine from Altova XML Spy was also used for all of the XSLT 2.0 examples. The Altova XSLT engine, although not open source, does provide complete schema support in a no-cost product. The license for the Altova engine currently allows you to redistribute it with your own code. To get the ...
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