XSLT Cookbook

Implementing the W3C XML Query-Use Cases in XSLT

Problem

You need to perform a query operation similar to one of the use cases in http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xmlquery-use-cases-20011220, but you want to use XSLT rather than XQuery (http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/).

Solution

The following examples are XSLT solutions to most of the XML query-use cases presented in the W3C document. The descriptions of each use case are taken almost verbatim from the W3C document.

1. Use case “XMP”: experiences and exemplars

   This use case contains several example queries that illustrate requirements gathered by the W3C from the database and document communities. The data use by these queries follows in Example 7-10 to Example 7-13.

   Example 7-10. bib.xml

   <bib> <book year="1994"> <title>TCP/IP Illustrated</title> <author><last>Stevens</last><first>W.</first></author> <publisher>Addison-Wesley</publisher> <price> 65.95</price> </book> <book year="1992"> <title>Advanced Programming in the Unix environment</title> <author><last>Stevens</last><first>W.</first></author> <publisher>Addison-Wesley</publisher> <price>65.95</price> </book> <book year="2000"> <title>Data on the Web</title> <author><last>Abiteboul</last><first>Serge</first></author> <author><last>Buneman</last><first>Peter</first></author> <author><last>Suciu</last><first>Dan</first></author> <publisher>Morgan Kaufmann Publishers</publisher> <price> 39.95</price> </book> <book year="1999"> <title>The Economics of Technology and Content for Digital ...