1. Overview of XSLT, XPATH, and XSL-FO(Beginner Level) Adena FrazerSuite Solutions

3. XPATH

4. XSL-FO

5. XSLT

7. “A family of transformation languages which allows one to describe how files encoded in the XML standard are to be formatted or transformed” (Wikipedia).

10. XPATH

11. XSL-FO

12. XSLT

15. XPATH Examples (1) XPATH is used by XSLT to retrieve information from an XML document Variable values Test conditions Template matches Example (from commons.xsl line 160): From a node that is the current node’s ancestor This expression will be true if the condition inside of the parentheses is false [if no nodes match this description] Get any node Whose class attribute contains the text ‘ topic/topic ‘

18. XPATH

19. XSL-FO

20. XSLT

23. Contains the whole document, including the Page Layout and Document Data sections

25. XSL-FO:Document Components Document Data References a master-reference which is defined in the Page Layout section Uses flows to define which part of the page should be used Legal values: xsl-region-body, xsl-region-before, xsl-region-after, xsl-region-start, xsl-region-end Contains the content of the page which is formatted using blocks and inline objects.

28. XSL-FO Attributes Each element in XSL-FO has a corresponding set of attributes These include: Widow and orphans: keep-with-next, keep-with-previous, keep-together, widows, orphans Colors: background-color, color Font size and style: font-family, font-weight, font-style, font-size Borders: border-after-color, border-after-style, border-after-width… Spacing: padding-after, padding-left, padding-right, margin-left, margin-right, margin-bottom, margin-top

30. XPATH

31. XSL-FO

32. XSLT

34. XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) XSLT style sheets- contain the formatting and logic of the document. The same style sheets can be reused with any content. Original XML document - contains the content. Style sheets can be applied to the content via: An XSLT compliant browser such as IE6+ Software such as Cooktop http://www.xmlcooktop.com/ XSL files end with .xsl (or .xslt) extensions Much of the internal workings of the Toolkit and the Plug-in as well as Toolkit and Plug-in customizations are implemented using XSLT.

35. XSLT ElementsAttribute Sets, Templates The main units of code that the FO Plug-in uses to process DITA are attribute sets and templates. Attribute Set - a unit of code that primarily stores information about how to formata DITA element. Example: an attribute set which relates to a <p> element may store information about which font, font size, and font weight should be used to display text surrounded by <p> tags. Template – a unit of code that primarily contains instructions about how to process the DITA. Example: a template which relates to a <p> element may contain instructions about when and where to display auto-generated text and what that text should be.

38. Puts the content of those elements inside of an XSL:FO <inline> tag

40. Original XML Content:

41. Code is processed using the template and attribute set from the previous slides

43. XPATH

44. XSL-FO

45. XSLT

47. XSL Resources (2) Other Websites W3Schools Tutorials and References XSLT:http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp XSL-FO:http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/default.asp XPath:http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/default.asp XSLT Reference http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTreference/Output/ Dave Pawson’s XSL FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/ Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org/

49. XPATH

50. XSL-FO

51. XSLT