Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath (5-hour free preview; 24 hours total)

Course Curriculum

Lecture 1: Introduction/Overview of the entire class

Lecture 2: (A4 page size) PDF Handouts

Lecture 3: (US letter page size) PDF Handouts

Chapter 1: Module 1 – The context of XSL Transformations and the XML Path Language (3 free lectures)

Lecture 1: Module 1 – Introduction – The context of XSL Transformations and the XML Path Language

Lecture 2: Module 1 – Lesson 1 – The XML family of Recommendations

Lecture 3: Module 1 – Lesson 2 – Transformation data flows

Chapter 2: Module 2 – Getting started with XSLT and XPath (4 free lectures)

Lecture 1: Module 2 – Introduction – Getting started with XSLT and XPath

Lecture 2: Module 2 – Lesson 1 – Stylesheet examples

Lecture 3: Module 2 – Lesson 2 – Syntax basics – stylesheets, templates, instructions

Lecture 4: Exercise ZIP packages (please note all downloadable resources for this lecture)

Lecture 5: Module 2 – Lesson 3 – Exercise Setup

Lecture 6: Module 2 – Lesson 4 – More stylesheet examples

Lecture 7: Module 2 – Lesson 5 – Stylesheet processing exercise

Chapter 3: Module 3 – XPath data model (1 free lecture)

Lecture 1: Module 3 – Introduction – XPath data model

Lecture 2: Module 3 – Lesson 1 – XPath data model components

Lecture 3: Module 3 – Lesson 2 – Exercise – XPath data model

Lecture 4: Module 3 – Lesson 3 – XPath expressions and patterns

Lecture 5: Module 3 – Lesson 4 – Exercise – XPath location expressions

Chapter 4: Module 4 – XSLT processing model (1 free lecture)

Lecture 1: Module 4 – Introduction – XSLT processing model

Lecture 2: Module 4 – Lesson 1 – XSLT processing model

Lecture 3: Module 4 – Lesson 2 – Sample XSLT stylesheets

Lecture 4: Module 4 – Lesson 3 – Exercise – Source tree traversal

Chapter 5: Module 5 – The XSLT transformation environment (1 free lecture)

Lecture 1: Lesson 5 – Introduction – The XSLT transformation environment

Lecture 2: Module 5 – Lesson 1 – Stylesheet basics

Lecture 3: Module 5 – Lesson 2 – Input, output and environment

Lecture 4: Module 5 – Lesson 3 – Exercise – HTML

Chapter 6: Module 6 – XSLT stylesheet management (1 free lecture)

Lecture 1: Module 6 – Introduction – XSLT stylesheet management

Lecture 2: Module 6 – Lesson 1 – Modularizing the logical structure of stylesheets

Lecture 3: Module 6 – Lesson 2 – Exercise – Using called templates and user-defined functions

Lecture 4: Module 6 – Lesson 3 – Modularizing the physical structure of stylesheets

Lecture 5: Module 6 – Lesson 4 – Exercise – Stylesheet management

Chapter 7: Module 7 – XSLT process control and result tree instructions (2 free lectures)

Lecture 1: Module 7 – Introduction – XSLT process control and result tree instructions

Lecture 2: Module 7 – Lesson 1 – Conditional control instructions

Lecture 3: Module 7 – Lesson 2 – Numbering instructions

Lecture 4: Module 7 – Lesson 3 – Result tree node instantiation

Lecture 5: Module 7 – Lesson 4 – Exercise – Number representation

Chapter 8: Module 8 – XPath and XSLT expressions and advanced techniques (1 free lecture)

Lecture 1: Module 8 – Introduction – XPath and XSLT expressions and advanced techniques

Lecture 2: Module 8 – Lesson 1 – Expression function usage

Lecture 3: Module 8 – Lesson 2 – Number expressions

Lecture 4: Module 8 – Lesson 3 – Exercise – Using number functions

Lecture 5: Module 8 – Lesson 4 – String expressions

Lecture 6: Module 8 – Lesson 5 – Exercise – Using string functions

Lecture 7: Module 8 – Lesson 6 – Boolean expressions

Lecture 8: Module 8 – Lesson 7 – Node-set expressions

Lecture 9: Module 8 – Lesson 8 – Exercise – Building a table of contents

Lecture 10: Module 8 – Lesson 9 – Sequence expressions

Lecture 11: Module 8 – Lesson 10 – Date and time expressions

Lecture 12: Module 8 – Lesson 11 – Exercise – Using date functions

Lecture 13: Module 8 – Lesson 12 – Miscellaneous expressions

Lecture 14: Module 8 – Lesson 13 – Content and document referencing techniques

Lecture 15: Module 8 – Lesson 14 – Exercise – Advanced XSLT features

Chapter 9: Module 9 – Sorting and grouping (1 free lecture)

Lecture 1: Module 9 – Introduction – Sorting and grouping

Lecture 2: Module 9 – Lesson 1 – Sorting source nodes to make result nodes

Lecture 3: Module 9 – Lesson 2 – Grouping constructs found in information

Lecture 4: Module 9 – Lesson 3 – Exercise – Sorting

Chapter 10: Annex A – XML to HTML transformation (4 free lectures)

Lecture 1: Annex A – Introduction – XML to HTML transformation

Lecture 2: Annex A – Lesson 1 – The W3C web presentation standards context

Lecture 3: Annex A – Lesson 2 – Well-formed HTML

Lecture 4: Annex A – Lesson 3 – HTML markup generation techniques

Chapter 11: Annex B – XSL formatting semantics introduction (4 free lectures)

Lecture 1: Annex B – Introduction – XSL formatting semantics introduction

Lecture 2: Annex B – Lesson 1 – Formatting model

Lecture 3: Annex B – Lesson 2 – Formatting objects

Lecture 4: Annex B – Lesson 3 – Example stylesheet with formatting constructs

Chapter 12: Annex C – Instruction, function and grammar summaries (3 free lectures)

Lecture 1: Annex C – Introduction – Instruction, function and grammar summaries

Lecture 2: Annex C – Lesson 1 – Vocabulary, functions and grammars 1.0

Lecture 3: Annex C – Lesson 2 – Vocabulary, functions and grammars 2.0

Chapter 13: Annex D – Tool questions (2 free lectures)

Lecture 1: Annex D – Introduction – Tool questions

Lecture 2: Annex D – Lesson 1 – XSLStyle™

Chapter 14: Postlude (1 free lecture)

Lecture 1: Postlude

Chapter 15: Revised complete PDF book (February 2011 Edition)

Lecture 1: (A4 page size) Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath (PDF book; 2011-02-11)

Lecture 2: (US-letter page size) Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath (PDF book; 2011-02-11)