Archive for the “XSLT” category

Is XSLT dead in Microsoft world?

by jp on November 19, 2007

Back in 2001 I was in TechEd Barcelona where Microsoft unveiled Sharepoint and .NET 1.o. I remember like yesterday when Don Box was demoing WebServices from bathtub (SOAP) and coding c# from MacBook in Microsoft event!. Anyway, after seeing Microsoft’s (…)

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Sorting Sitecore data to multicolumn html table

by jp on May 27, 2007

Sorting Sitecore data to multicolumn html table is quite hard in XSLT because data in XML is not sorted by item/@sortorder. I finally found out how to do this so it will actually work and I am not loosing data. (…)

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Converting xsl:variable to nodeset

by jp on November 3, 2005

The msxsl:node-set function enables you to convert a result tree fragment into a node set. The resulting node set always contains a single node and is the root node of the tree. <xsl:variable name="books"> <book author="Michael Howard">Writing Secure Code</book> <book (…)

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New XSL related blog

by jp on April 19, 2005

Dave Pawson is blogging.

Saxonica

by jp on April 19, 2005

Saxonica is the new home of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor developed by Michael Kay. Saxonica undertakes the development of the Saxon XSLT, XQuery, and XML Schema processor. It will take a long while before we see XSLT 2.0 (…)

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Microsoft Word meets XSL-FO

by jp on February 27, 2005

In MSDN there is an article about Transforming Word Documents into the XSL-FO Format. The article introduces WordprocessingML and XSL-FO vocabularies and shows how to transform Word documents to into XSL-FO.

Saxon XSLT meets C#

by jp on June 21, 2004

Saxon.NET – v.8.0-B port to C# This could very easily prove the foundation technology to get XSLT 2.0 onto Windows in a major way. While not perfect, XSLT 2.0 is considerably less verbose, easier to build extensions and capable of (…)

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Things you cant do in XSLT

by jp on June 2, 2004

Good to remember… Read and cry. Of course you could use an extension function such as http://www.exslt.org/dyn/functions/evaluate/ to change string to nodeset for dynamic xml lookup.

Boost XSLT with Extension Objects

by jp on October 14, 2003

XSLT is my favourite language when developing web application, thought XSLT does not contain all the power found in languages such as C# or VB.NET. In situations where you need to perform functions that XSLT cannot handle in its own, (…)

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Tune Up you StyleSheet?s with XSLT MaJic

by jp on October 14, 2003

I just found nice little application called XsltMajic Profiler Tool that helps you Performance Tune an XSLT Style Sheet in Visual Studio .NET Using System.Xml. Microsoft has also nice informatic video at Microsoft Knowledge Base. This tool is really worth (…)

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