Learning XSLT

Service-Oriented Architecture

Getting started with XSLT

XSLT knowledge tree

The XSLT knowledge tree can be represented as the following:

• XSLT 2.0
  • XSLT 1.0
  • XML Schema
    • XML 1.0
    • XPath 1.0
    • XML namespace
      • URI

We therefore suggest you build your XLST knowledge in the following order:

1. XML 1.0
2. URI
3. XML Namespace
4. XPath 1.0
5. XSLT 1.0

What tools do I need?

This section assumes that you are using a OS that has Java 1.4.2 installed and you know how to run a Java program.

First, you need a XSLT editor. Any text editor will do. However, we do suggest Netbeans. It has a nice XSLT editor that does syntax highlighting, auto completion, and XSLT validation.

Second, you need to download a XSLT processor. A number of free Java processors are available:

1. Saxon
2. Apache's Xalan