Schema-aware processing with XSLT 2.0 - XML tutorial

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Programming problems can be solved using multiple solutions. Discover the first approach in a four part series for creating an Asynchronous JavaScript plus XML weather badge, a reusable widget that's easily embedded on any Web page.

XSL is a more complex style sheet technology than CSS, so there is no way to thoroughly cover style sheets without things getting a little messy. Fortunately, as you learn in this tutorial, XSL is a technology that has considerably more to offer than CSS. XSL is designed to do a whole lot more than just format XML content for display purposes; it gives you the ability to completely transform XML documents. You learn in this tutorial how to transform XML documents into HTML documents that can be viewed in web browsers. Additionally, you should realize that the extra complexity in XSL is quite worth the learning curve because of its immense power and flexibility.

"Writing for the Web without linking is like eating without digesting".
In this tutorial, you'll learn
How to navigate through an XML document using XPath patterns;
How to build powerful expressions using XPath patterns and functions;
What technologies come together to support linking in XML;
How to reference document fragments with XPointer;
How to link XML documents with XLink;

We'll discuss two Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI) extensions for Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). The first ISAPI extension allows you to retrieve data directly from a SQL Server database in XML format using a Web browser. The second extension enables IIS to pass the XML directly to the client computer.

This tutorial will give you an understanding of ebXML architecture and its components.