XSLT ‘Extreme’ TLA327 Dave McMahon MCAD,MCDBA,MVP – Connected Systems Developer

Session Prerequisites Some Experience of XSLT 1.0 Some Experience of XPath 1.0 Competent.NET Developer

Session Objectives and Agenda To Expand Your Knowledge of XSLT Capabilities Overview of XSLT Pipeline When to use XSLT Examine XSLT Processor Input Examine the XSLT Implementation in the.NET 2.0 Framework Examine XSLT Processor Output

Introduction Simple Language Declarative No Side Effects (almost) Extensible

Overview of the XSLT Pipeline style sheet Text XML Parsing Stylesheet Tree Transformation Process Result Tree Serialization Source Tree

When to use XSLT Business-to-Business Scenarios Web Sites where deployment is tightly controlled In Web Sites where there is no database For binding loose XAML pages to data Many other uses!

XSLT In The.NET 2.0 Framework XslCompiledTransform XsltArgumentList XsltSettings XmlUrlResolver XmlSecureResolver

Demonstration Site IHttpHandler Support Classes HttpRequest HttpResponse

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Demo XSLT Syntax Simple Demonstration of XSLT in Visual Studio including Debugging

Extending XSLT Input Xslt Binds to XML through XPath Mappings System.Xml.XPath.IXPathNavigable Custom XPathNavigator add powerful extensions to XSLT capabilities

Extending Xslt Input Row1/Col1Col2Col3Col4Col5 Row2 Row3 Row Navigating a CSV Document

Demo Demonstration of extended input capabilities and other XLST capabilities

Summary The XSLT Pipeline is Simple XSLT can operate on XML Sources via IXPathNavigable XSLT Syntax is simple but powerful and extensible XSLT can output many formats of data XSLT 2.0 includes Schema Validation and RegExp

Resources Any book by Michael Kay – Wrox Press MSDN Microsoft Office Word 2003 SDK Aaron Skonaard Required slide: Please customize this slide with the resources relevant to your session

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Q&A Dave McMahon MCAD,MCDBA, MVP – Connected System Developer

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