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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