XSLT and XPATH : A Guide to XML Transformations

作     者：John Robert Gardner Charles F. Goldfarb 

I S B N：(纸本) 9780130404466 

出 版 社：Prentice Hall 

出 版 年：2001年

主 题 词：Network Programming Other Programming Languages XML SGML Other Document Mark-up Languages Web Programming 

摘      要：From the Book: HAVi, which stands for Home Audio Video, is a new standard that will allow software programmers to develop applications for future home consumer electronics products. HAVi, will be the platform for all consumer electronics development for the future. This book is designed to provide the software developer with a practical, by example approach to learning how to program within the HAVi environment. It contains less theory and more application. You ve heard of XML; your manager wants you to use it in your applications. Now what You ve used HTML, and you know what a tag is; you know that it is somehow related to XML. You may even know what XML is and what it does. What you may not know is that, while XML identifies and adds structure to the content of a document, it does not tell you anything about how to process that content, or how to do anything useful with it beyond storage. This is good news, because this means your content can be used for many different purposes. There are many things you can use to process content once it is marked up using XML. However, we have chosen to talk about the only standard application that allows you to do many different things with it. With XSLT, you can add style to XML, convert it to other XML, or simply chop it up and regenerate it in a different form. XSLT is the power behind the throne of XML. It assures that every level of every piece of XML data is accessible and reusable across platforms and forward in time. It is not an exaggeration to say that XSLT and its companion XPath are the very glue and mortar that hold together and build the endlessly varying applications of markup data for any industry, academy, or individual. XSLT is the fastest cure for the fear of having obsolescence in a data or information architecture design. XSLT is easy to use. In fact, XSLT itself is XML. XSLT speaks the language, or the syntax, of XML with a powerful vocabulary of programming-like features that are nonetheless easy to u