Description

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Training objectives

Training program

• Introduction to the context of XSL and XPath
  • Needs for using XML technology.
  • CSS technology for presentation, limitations of CSS.
  • Introduction to XSL, XSL-T, XSL-FO and SVG.
  • Introduction to Xpath.
  • Basic principles and mechanisms.
  • XML parser and XSL processor.
  • Support by web browsers.
  • Implementation of XSL technologies.
• The query language: XPath
  • XPath expressions.
  • Querying an XML document.
  • Search axes and vectors.
  • Review of some simple expressions.
  • Selection of elements/nodes, node sets and attributes in an XML tree.
  • Location operator.
  • Equality equation and relations, Boolean operators.
  • Numerical operations.
  • Standard functions and processor extensions.
  • Practical work Writing and testing XPath expressions.
• The transformation language: XSL-T
  • Structure of an XSL-T style sheet, processing of the XSL-T processor.
  • Namespaces and root XSL elements.
  • Output formats: XML vocabularies , HTML, X-HTML or text.
  • Using XPath expressions.
  • Nodes and node sets.
  • Processing model: templates.
  • XSL-T language syntax, data types, control structures, etc.
  • Notions of variables and parameters.
  • Generation of elements and attributes.
  • Declarative or imperative invocation of processing.
  • Recovery of elements and content.
  • Analysis of the behavior of an XSL processor -T.
  • Optimization of node searches.
  • Error handling.
  • Practical work Composition of different types of XSL-T style sheets .
• XSL-T, advanced features
  • Writing functions: simple and recursive calls.
  • Modular structure of style sheets.
  • Design patterns: Fill-in-the-blank, Navigational, Rule-based, Computational.
  • Import and inclusion of style sheets with argument passing.
  • Creation of reusable libraries.
  • Modularity and inheritance.
  • Transformations based on multiple sources.
  • Generations of groups of documents.
  • Specificities of certain processors.
  • Work on spaces of heterogeneous names.
  • XSL dynamization of office documents: Microsoft Office (Open XML), Open Office (Open Document).
  • Practical work Creation of modular and nested style sheets , with multiple input structures and generation of multiple output documents.
  • Creating MS Office documents using XSL.
• The developer's toolkit
  • Launching transformations from the command line.
  • Using various processors (XT, Saxon, Xerces, MSXml.
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  • Writing transformation script with Ant.
  • Website management.
  • Practical work Setting up an XML-based website management environment.
• XSL-T 2.0 and 3.0, X-PATH 2.0 and 3.0
  • New features: functions, expressions, operations, sorting, fallbacks and error handling, etc.
  • New data types supported.
  • Processing differences.
  • Creation of a result tree, a sequence of nodes or values.
  • XPath queries with regular expressions.
  • Number functions and operators.
  • Functions on character strings.
  • Functions and operations on dates.
  • Practical work Manipulation and navigation of XML trees.
• SVG for GUIs and image creation
  • SVG, Scalable Vector Graphics.
  • The challenges of vector languages.
  • Advantages of SVG over Flash.
  • Server side and side use client.
  • Editing and usage environments: browsers.
  • Document structure.
  • Coordinate systems and sizing.
  • Transforming the coordinate system.
  • Basic shapes.
  • Styles.
  • Curves and paths.
  • Patterns and gradients.
  • Text and internationalization.
  • Masking and cutting.
  • Filtering.
  • Animation, interaction and scripts.
  • Practical work Creation of style sheets allowing the generation of SVG documents.
  • Generation of HTML pages containing graphs.
• XSL-FO for generating paper documents
  • XSL-FO, Formatting Objects.
  • Needs and objectives of XSL-FO.
  • Introduction to the language.
  • Available solutions and implementations .
  • Example from the Apache FOP project.
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  • Initialization, definition of page templates.
  • The area of content, dimensions of regions, page sequences.
  • Inclusion of graphics in SVG format.
  • Generation of the result.
  • Practical work Creation of stylesheets combining XSL-T and XSL-FO to generate PDF output.
  • Generating a report containing images in SVG format.