XSLT Cookbook

Preface 1. Strings 1.1 Testing if a String Ends with Another String 1.2 Finding the Position of a Substring 1.3 Removing Specific Characters from a String 1.4 Finding Substrings from the End of a String 1.5 Duplicating a String N Times 1.6 Reversing a String 1.7 Replacing Text 1.8 Converting Case 1.9 Tokenizing a String 1.10 Making Do Without Regular Expressions 1.11 Using the EXSLT String Extensions 2. Numbers and Math 2.1 Formatting Numbers 2.2 Rounding Numbers to a Specified Precision 2.3 Converting from Roman Numerals to Numbers 2.4 Converting from One Base to Another 2.5 Implementing Common Math Functions 2.6 Computing Sums and Products 2.7 Finding Minimums and Maximums 2.8 Computing Statistical Functions 2.9 Computing Combinatorial Functions 2.10 Testing Bits 3. Dates and Times 3.1 Calculating the Day of the Week 3.2 Determining the Last Day of the Month 3.3 Getting Names for Days and Months 3.4 Calculating Julian and Absolute Day Numbers from a Specified Date 3.5 Calculating the Week Number for a Specified Date 3.6 Working with the Julian Calendar 3.7 Working with the ISO Calendar 3.8 Working with the Islamic Calendar 3.9 Working with the Hebrew Calendar 3.10 Formatting Dates and Times 3.11 Determining Secular and Religious Holidays 4. Selecting and Traversing 4.1 Optimizing Node Selections 4.2 Determining if Two Nodes Are the Same 4.3 Ignoring Duplicate Elements 4.4 Selecting All but a Specific Element 4.5 Performing a Preorder Traversal 4.6 Performing a Postorder Traversal 4.7 Performing an In-Order Traversal 4.8 Performing a Level-Order Traversal 4.9 Processing Nodes by Position 5. XML to Text 5.1 Dealing with Whitespace 5.2 Exporting XML to Delimited Data 5.3 Creating a Columnar Report 5.4 Displaying a Hierarchy 5.5 Numbering Textual Output 5.6 Wrapping Text to a Specified Width and Alignment 6. XML to XML 6.1 Converting Attributes to Elements 6.2 Converting Elements to Attributes 6.3 Renaming Elements or Attributes 6.4 Merging Documents with Identical Schema 6.5 Merging Documents with Unlike Schema 6.6 Splitting Documents 6.7 Flattening an XML Hierarchy 6.8 Deepening an XML Hierarchy 6.9 Reorganizing an XML Hierarchy 7. Querying XML 7.1 Performing Set Operations on Node Sets 7.2 Performing Set Operations on Node Sets Using Value Semantics 7.3 Determining Set Equality by Value 7.4 Performing Structure-Preserving Queries 7.5 Joins 7.6 Implementing the W3C XML Query-Use Cases in XSLT 8. XML to HTML 8.1 Using XSLT as a Styling Language 8.2 Creating Hyperlinked Documents 8.3 Creating HTML Tables 8.4 Creating Frames 8.5 Creating Data-Driven Stylesheets 8.6 Creating a Self-Contained HTML Transformation 8.7 Populating a Form 9. XML to SVG 9.1 Transforming an Existing Boilerplate SVG 9.2 Creating Reusable SVG Generation Utilities for Graphs and Charts 9.3 Creating a Tree Diagram 9.4 Creating Interactive SVG-Enabled Web Pages 10. Code Generation 10.1 Generating Constant Definitions 10.2 Generating Switching Code 10.3 Generating Message-Handling Stub Code 10.4 Generating Data Wrappers 10.5 Generating Pretty Printers 10.6 Generating a Test Data-Entry Web Client 10.7 Generating Test-Entry Web CGI 10.8 Generating Code from UML Models via XMI 10.9 Generating XSLT from XSLT 11. Vertical XSLT Application Recipes 11.1 Converting Visio VDX Documents to SVG 11.2 Working with Excel XML Spreadsheets 11.3 Generating XTM Topic Maps from UML Models via XMI 11.4 Generating Web Sites from XTM Topic Maps 11.5 Serving SOAP Documentation from WSDL 12. Extending and Embedding XSLT 12.1 Using Saxon's and Xalan's Native Extensions 12.2 Extending XSLT with JavaScript 12.3 Adding Extension Functions Using Java 12.4 Adding Extension Elements Using Java 12.5 Using XSLT from Perl 12.6 Using XSLT from Java 13. Testing and Debugging 13.1 Using xsl:message Effectively 13.2 Tracing the Flow of Your Stylesheet Through Its Input Document 13.3 Automating the Insertion of Debug Output 13.4 Including Embedded Unit Test Data in Utility Stylesheets 13.5 Structuring Unit Tests 13.6 Testing Boundary and Error Conditions 14. Generic and Functional Programming 14.1 Creating Polymorphic XSLT 14.2 Creating Generic Element Aggregation Functions 14.3 Creating Generic Bounded Aggregation Functions 14.4 Creating Generic Mapping Functions 14.5 Creating Generic Node-Set Generators Index