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Working with Altova Stylevision

2 days practical workshop for up to 12 people.

The eXtensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations is a core XML technology for both presentation and middleware layers of enterprise applications. This training course teaches students to write their own XSLT files to transform XML into XSL-FO for RTF PDF, or HTML. The course uses the Stylevision product from Altova as the tool of choice, but also goes beyond the tool so that students can understand the documents that have been created.

Layout

The training course combines lectures with practical exercises that help the delegates to put what they have learned on the training course into practice. The exercises specifically build on what has been recently taught and are built up as the training course progresses.

Training Course Objectives

Understand the XSLT mechanism
Write XSLT Templates using Stylevision
Understand the role of the pre-defined templates in XSLT
Write XPath expressions for use in XSLT documents created in Stylevision
Use XPath functions in Stylevision
Use the XSLT flow control elements
Understand the XSL-FO document structure generated by Stylevision
Configure document settings for PDF generation
Work with tables and pagination using Stylevision

Who it is for

This training course is aimed at developers who need to be able to create XSLT files to transform XML into other formats.

Training Course Prerequisites

Delegates must be familiar with XML. XML experience can come from the XML Overview training course. It is also helpful if delegates have programming experience in some programming or scripting language.

Chapters

Chapter 1 Introduction to XML

What is XML?
XML Syntax
Well formed XML
Where XML fits into applications

Chapter 2 Introduction to XSLT

Uses of XSLT
XSLT transformation mechanism
XSLT Templates

Chapter 3 Introduction to Stylevision

The Design View
The Authentic View
The HTML Preview
The PDF Preview
Creating a basic stylesheet

Chapter 4 Introduction to XML Schemas

XML Schema Fundamentals
Reading an XML Schema in Stylevision

Chapter 5 XPath

Accessing elements
Accessing attributes
XPath axes
XPath predicates
Working with XPath using Stylevision

Chapter 6 XPath Functions

Number functions
Formatting functions
Text functions
Using functions from Stylevision

Chapter 7 XSLT Flow Control

The for-each construct
The if construct
The choose, when, otherwise construct
Applying conditional and looping constructs using Stylevision

Chapter 8 Creating PDF Output

Introducing XSL-FO
The core XSL-FO elements
Basic formatting in XSL-FO
Using Stylevision to format XSL-FO documents

Chapter 9 Advanced PDF Output