About this tutorial
Transforming XML documents is one of the hottest topics in the XML community today. XML's flexibility allows users to create simple, descriptive tags; for effective data interchange, those tags must be transformed into another set of tags. The most common transformation is converting an XML document into HTML so it can be viewed in a browser. However, as new XML vocabularies emerge, other transformations will become popular as well. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is currently working on two proposed standards for transforming XML documents: XSLT and XPath. To help you understand these important standards efforts, we're pleased to present an introductory version of Ken Holman's "Practical transformation using XSLT and XPath (XSL transformations and the XML Path Language)."

This preview includes the first and last two modules of the tutorial, and descriptions of the remaining modules. The full version can be purchased from the Crane Softwrights Web site. (With the purchase of a registered copy of the materials, you are entitled to updates to the material at no extra cost.)

About the author
G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering OmniMark programming, DSSSL and XSL language training, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services to international customers. He is the current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C, and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Prior to establishing Crane, Ken spent over 13 years in a software development and consulting services company working in the NAPLPS and the SGML industries. He can be reached at gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com