Articles filed in category 'XSLT'

Michiel van Otegem demonstrates how to build a simple, portable and highly extensible shopping cart using XML and XSLT: product data and per-user baskets are represented as XML, XSLT templates handle display, adding and updating items, and transformations enable platform- and client-specific rendering. By placing logic in XSLT (server-side for broad compatibility) the system gains cross-platform portability, easy handling of evolving product attributes, and reusable proc...essing for totals, payments and multiple output formats.See More

XML is everywhere from XML Web Services to databases to config files to Office documents. This article will show you tooling support offered in Visual Studio 2008 that will make working with XML easier. It will cover editing XML files, working with XML schemas, debugging XSLT style sheets and extending Visual Studio by writing your own custom XML Designers.

Markus Egger demonstrates how HTML, XML and XSL can be used inside standard Windows applications to create highly flexible, data-driven interfaces: pull data as XML from databases or business objects, transform it to HTML with XSLT, render it in the WebBrowser control, and handle custom link navigation to integrate with native forms—offering an alternative to rigid Windows grids and controls that simplifies complex, hierarchical displays and interaction without relying on the Internet.

In this article, Simon Ferguson explains XSL patterns as a powerful, simplified subset of XPath used to query and manipulate XML documents. He highlights how XSL patterns function similarly to SQL Select statements by allowing precise selection, filtering, and transformation of XML nodes. Through examples and explanations of syntax, Ferguson demonstrates how understanding and using these patterns enable efficient extraction and restructuring of XML data, making them esse...ntial for working with XSL stylesheets and advanced XML querying tasks.See More