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Tables of Contents for The Xsl Companion
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
Using this book
1
2
Book structure
1
1
Style conventions
1
2
Overview
3
10
Stylesheets
3
2
The XSL standards
5
3
XSL/XSLT processors
8
1
Why XSL?
9
1
Stylesheet example
10
3
Transformations (XSLT)
Templates
13
14
Template concepts
13
8
Values of elements and attributes
21
1
Breaking well-formed constraints
22
2
XSL format output
24
1
XML transformation output
24
3
Stylesheets
27
14
Using stylesheets
27
2
The Stylesheet element
29
2
Fragmented stylesheets
31
3
Embedded stylesheets
34
1
Stylesheet contents
35
1
Output formats
36
2
Space preservation
38
3
HTML output
41
6
Pseudo HTML output
41
2
True HTML output
43
4
Contextual formatting
47
10
XML structures
47
1
Expressions
48
1
Alternative elements
49
1
Simple location contexts
50
2
Advanced context
52
1
Attribute contexts
53
1
Priorities
54
3
Expressions in attributes
57
4
Template markup
57
2
Copy-through attributes
59
1
Element content to attribute
59
1
Child element to attribute
60
1
Choices
61
6
Introduction
61
1
If conditions
61
3
Multiple choices
64
3
Sorting
67
8
Simple element sorting
67
1
Correct ordering
68
2
Ordering options
70
1
Selective sorting
71
1
Multiple sort criteria
72
3
Numbering
75
12
HTML numbering
75
1
Simple numbering
76
2
Expression values
78
1
Elements to count
79
3
Multipart numbering
82
2
Document-wide numbering
84
1
Advanced formatting options
85
2
Reorganizing material
87
8
Information reuse
87
2
Context-specific formatting (modes)
89
1
Moving information
90
1
Accessing remote documents
91
4
XML output
95
10
XML output format
95
1
Elements
95
2
Attributes
97
2
Text
99
1
Comments
100
1
Processing instructions
101
2
Copying source structures
103
2
Identifiers and links
105
8
XML IDs
105
1
Keys
106
4
Hypertext links
110
3
Text format
113
6
Non-XML output
113
2
Text output mode
115
1
Line-ending issues
116
3
Namespaces
119
10
Namespaces in stylesheets
119
3
Namespaces in input documents
122
1
Namespaces in output documents
123
3
Outputting stylesheets (aliases)
126
3
Productivity features
129
14
Variables
129
4
Attribute sets
133
1
Named templates
134
3
Single-template short-cut
137
1
Direct processing
137
3
Messages
140
3
Formatting
XSL
143
56
Background
143
1
XSL instructions
144
1
Templates and content
145
2
Pages
147
3
Page sequences
150
6
Page regions
156
6
Content
162
2
Blocks
164
10
Lines
174
3
In-line objects
177
8
Object positioning
185
1
Out-of-line objects
186
2
Neutral objects
188
3
Whitespace and line feeds
191
2
Aural styles
193
6
HTML 4.0
199
38
HTML
199
1
HTML versions
200
1
Basic document structure
201
2
Differences from XML
203
1
Text blocks
204
1
Basic hypertext links
204
2
Common attributes
206
2
Headings and Divisions
208
2
Lists
210
2
In-line elements
212
2
Formatted text
214
1
Images
215
2
Tables
217
6
Descriptive markup
223
1
Styles and scripts
224
1
Frames
225
3
Elements and attributes list
228
9
CSS
237
12
Background
237
1
Format primer
238
1
CSS versus XSL/XSLT
239
1
Relevance to XSLT and XSL
239
1
Rule constructions
240
2
Properties
242
7
Reference
Expressions
249
28
The XPath standard
249
1
Expressions in attributes
249
1
Patterns
250
3
Location paths
253
3
Expressions
256
1
Data types and functions
257
7
Operators
264
4
Predicate filters
268
2
XSLT extensions
270
7
DTD analysis
277
8
Introduction
277
1
Elements to style
278
1
Hierarchical context
279
1
Required and sequential context
279
1
Block and in-line elements
280
1
Attributes
281
1
DTD construction features
282
3
XSLT DTD
285
22
Introduction
285
1
Top-level elements
285
5
Templates
290
2
Template instructions
292
10
Instruction constructs
302
3
Result elements
305
2
XSLT extensions
307
4
Extension functions
307
1
Extension elements
308
2
Forward compatibility
310
1
Index
311