Publishing with XML and XSLT

The W3C-standard Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSLT) is an important part of nearly every XML-based publishing workflow. XSLT is a programming language for manipulating XML documents. Using XSLT, you can sort, select, filter, and transform XML content for publishing to print, PDF, HTML, wireless device, or any other current or future output format.

In this hands-on workshop, we will learn to write XSLT stylesheets and test our stylesheets by performing "real-world" tasks on XML documents.
No special software is required; participants will work with a text editor and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

The workshop will cover the following material:
- Basic XSLT stylesheet structure and instructions
- How to convert XML to HTML or XHTML for publishing
- How to publish customized documents by filtering based on XML metadata
- How to use XSLT to generate hyperlinks for cross-references and navigation
- How to simplify your XSLT stylesheets by using CSS

Alan Houser is president of Group Wellesley, Inc., a firm that provides consulting, training, and application development services to support single-source publishing, electronic publishing, and XML-based publishing.

Alan is an Adobe Certified Instructor in FrameMaker and Acrobat, and provides training and consulting for clients across North America and Europe. He is co-author of "XML Weekend Crash Course", and is a popular speaker at technical communication conferences.

Alan Houser is a voting member of the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) Technical Committee and is an Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication.