XSLT 2.0 and 1.0 Foundations

Pluralsight
Course Summary
XSLT is a powerful, higher-level, declarative and extraordinary member in the family of modern programming languages, due to its pattern-matching philosophy. This is the language for processing XML documents and hierarchical data in general, that opens to us a whole new world of knowledge, understanding and problem-solving strategies.
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Course Description
XSLT is the language, especially designed by the W3C Consortium for processing XML documents and hierarchical data in general. This course covers the fundamentals of the language both version 1.0 and 2.0. Learn in depth the features of XSLT, and be part of the demos of their real-world practical applications. Not only is XSLT a powerful, higher-level, declarative and extraordinary with its pattern-matching philosophy modern programming language, but it opens to us a whole new world of knowledge, understanding and problem-solving strategies.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction- 20m 0s
—Course Introduction 0m 51s
—Brief modules walk-through 12m 23s
—Tools and Resources 6m 45sXML Basics- 29m 33s
—Overview 1m 6s
—XML Document. Basic kinds of Nodes 2m 35s
—Lexical rules for Characters, Names and Tags. 2m 51s
—Special Characters and Predefined Entity References. 1m 3s
—Wellformed XML Document. 4m 47s
—Namespaces 4m 21s
—Myths about Namespaces. 0m 31s
—Default Namespace. 1m 21s
—Namespace Scope. 0m 57s
—Q & A About Default Namespaces. 0m 55s
—Predefined Namespace Declarations. Some Important Namespaces 1m 10s
—Namespace-wellformedness. Namespace Demo. 3m 17s
—XML Schema and Schema Definition Languages. 2m 2s
—Simple XML Schema: Example and Demo. 1m 40s
—Summary 0m 50sCrash Course in XPath- 1h 10mXSLT Processing Model- 45m 27sStylesheet Structure and Modularization- 34m 42sCreating Nodes & Sequences. Repetition, Applying Templates, Modes- 51m 56sCallable Units in XSLT- 33m 37sString Processing with XSLT- 57m 23sKeys, Sorting, Grouping, Numbering and Multi-Document Processing- 54m 51sXSLT Design Patterns- 47m 55sHigher Order Functions and Functional Programming in XSLT- 49m 3sSolving Non-traditional Problems with XSLT- 30m 54s