XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference (eBook)

Michael Kay has been working in the XML field since 1997; he became a member of the XSL Working Group soon after the publication of XSLT 1.0, and took over as editor of the XSLT 2.0 specification in early 2001. He is also a member of the XQuery and XML Schema Working Groups, and is a joint editor of the XPath 2.0 specification. He is well known not only through previous editions of this book but also as the developer of the open source Saxon product, a pioneering implementation of XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0, and XQuery 1.0. In 2004 the author formed his own company, Saxonica, to provide commercial software and services building on the success of the Saxon technology. Previously, he spent three years with Software AG, working with the developers of the Tamino XML server, an early XQuery implementation. His background is in database technology: after leaving the University of Cambridge with a Ph.D., he worked for many years with the (then) computer manufacturer ICL, developing network, relational, and objectoriented database software products as well as a text search engine, and held the position of ICL Fellow.

Introduction.

List of Examples.

Part I: Foundations.

Chapter 1: XSLT in Context.

Chapter 2: The XSLT Processing Model.

Chapter 3: Stylesheet Structure.

Chapter 4: Stylesheets and Schemas.

Chapter 5: Types.

Part II: XSLT and XPath Reference.

Chapter 6: XSLT Elements.

Chapter 7: XPath Fundamentals.

Chapter 8: XPath: Operators on Items.

Chapter 9: XPath: Path Expressions.

Chapter 10: XPath: Sequence Expressions.

Chapter 11: XPath: Type Expressions.

Chapter 12: XSLT Patterns.

Chapter 13: The Function Library.

Chapter 14: Regular Expressions.

Chapter 15: Serialization.

Part III: Exploitation.

Chapter 16: Extensibility.

Chapter 17: Stylesheet Design Patterns.

Chapter 18: Case Study: XMLSpec.

Chapter 19: Case Study: A Family Tree.

Chapter 20: Case Study: Knight's Tour.

Part IV: Appendices.

Appendix A: XPath 2.0 Syntax Summary.

Appendix B: Error Codes.

Appendix C: Backward Compatibility.

Appendix D: Microsoft XSLT Processors.

Appendix E: JAXP: The Java API for Transformation.

Appendix F: Saxon.

Appendix G: Altova.

Appendix H: Glossary.

Index.