Ebook: XML & XSL fast start: your quick start guide for XML & XSL

The guide begins by showing you the basics of the XML language and then builds on that knowledge to show you how to create, style and transform documents.;XML Basics -- Using XML -- Working with root, parent, and child elements -- Defining XML elements and tags -- Using XML attributes -- Additional structures in elements -- Specifying XML declarations -- Creating well-formed documents -- Understanding DTDs -- Introducing XSL -- Matching structures to template rules -- Structuring XSLT stylesheets -- Defining the output format -- Defining template rules and declarations -- XPath operators & expressions -- Understanding XPath operators and datatypes -- Using relative XPath expressions -- Using absolute XPath expressions -- Locating other nodes -- Using namespaces with element and attribute nodes -- Using wildcards and predicates in XPath expressions.