XSLT For Dummies is your ticket to quickly mastering XSLT--no matter what your prior programming experience. Writing in easygoing, plain English, XML pro Richard Wagner provides expert advice, step-by-step guidance, and tons of crystal-clear examples to help you harness the power of XSLT to transform documen ts. In no time you'll:

• Understand how XSLT works with XSL and XPath
• Experiment with templates, stylesheets, and expressions
• Perform HTML transformations
• Master XPath data types and functions
• Combine XSLT stylesheets
• Explore cool XSLT programming tricks

XSLT For Dummies works from the ground up, starting with a practical introduction of the "X-Team"--XML, XSL, XSLT, and X-Path--and instructions on how to write a XSLT stylesheet. From there it quickly moves onward and upward through the whole range of important XSLT topics, including:

• Transforming with stylesheets
• Understanding and using template rules
• Using XPath to locate nodes in XML documents
• Combining XSLT stylesheets and adding processing instructions
• Debugging XSLT transformations
• Ten XSLT processors available online

It doesn't matter whether you're a babe in the woods who can't tell a "tag" from an element, or you're an old pro at creating XML documents, XSLT For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to explore and take full advantage of Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations.