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Michael Day asks an interesting question: which XML technologies are beautiful and why? He answers with some candidates. Which XML technologies do you think are most beautiful? [Apr. 18, 2007]
XSLT as Pretty Printer By Hew Wolff
Hew Wolff discusses some of the issues surrounding an XSLT style sheet that will pretty print arbitrary XML and includes the style sheet itself. [Nov. 29, 2006]
Automating Stylesheet Creation By Bob DuCharme
Bob DuCharme shows how an XSLT stylesheet can read simplified XML-conversion instructions and create a new, working XSLT stylesheet from those instructions. [Sep. 7, 2005]
Appreciating Libxslt By Bob DuCharme
In this month's Transforming XML column, Bob DuCharme introduces libxslt, a very performant and feature-rich XSLT processor with roots in the GNOME world. [Aug. 3, 2005]
Push, Pull, Next! By Bob DuCharme
Bob DuCharme compares the push and pull styles of XSLT stylesheet architectures and looks at two new XSLT 2.0 instructions that aid push-style development. [Jul. 6, 2005]
Seeking Equality By Bob DuCharme
Bob DuCharme looks at how XSLT 1.0 and 2.0 let you evaluate whether two elements are equal. [Jun. 8, 2005]
Using Stylesheet Schemas By Bob DuCharme
In this month's Transforming XML column, Bob DuCharme asks what a DTD or schema for XSLT stylesheets can add to your XSLT development and deployment. [Apr. 6, 2005]
Comparing CSS and XSL: A Reply from Norm Walsh By Norman Walsh
Norm Walsh responds to a recent article about CSS and XSL, explaining how and when and why you'd want to use XSLFO or CSS or XSLT. [Feb. 9, 2005]
Bob DuCharme, in his latest Transforming XML column, examines the XPath 2.0, hence the XSLT 2.0, data model. [Feb. 2, 2005]
Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL By Michael Day, Håkon Wium Lie
One of the old school debates among XML developers is "CSS versus XSLT." Håkun Wium Lie and Michael Day revive that debate with a shot across XSL's bow. [Jan. 19, 2005]
Converting XML to RDF By Bob DuCharme
Bob DuCharme explains how to convert XML into RDF -- using the XML returned by Amazon's REST web service -- in this month's Transforming XML column. [Sep. 1, 2004]
Adobe's InDesign and XML By David Miller
David Miller takes us on a tour of the new XML features in Adobe's InDesign tool. [Aug. 4, 2004]
Mastering DocBook Indexes By Jirka Kosek
Jirka Kosek explains the ins and outs of constructing document indexes in DocBook. [Jul. 14, 2004]
An Interview with Michael Kay By Bob DuCharme
In his latest Transforming XML column, Bob DuCharme interviews Michael Kay, developer of Saxon, about his new venture, Saxonica. [Jul. 7, 2004]
Trickledown Namespaces? By John E. Simpson
In this month's Q&A column John Simpson explains how namespaces are inherited, or not, by children elements and attributes. [Jun. 30, 2004]
Entity and Character References By Bob DuCharme
In this month's Transforming XML Bob DuCharme examines some of the issues surrounding entity and character references in XSLT 2.0. [Jun. 2, 2004]
From XML to SMIL By John E. Simpson
In this month's XML Q&A column John E. Simpson explores the interaction of plain text, SMIL, and XSLT. [May. 26, 2004]
Utility Stylesheets, Part Two By Bob DuCharme
In this month's Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme continues his tour of generic, utility stylesheets. [May. 5, 2004]
From One String to Many By John E. Simpson
In John Simpson's latest XML Q&A column he describes several ways, including those for XSLT/XPath 2.0 and EXSLT, to tokenize strings. [Apr. 28, 2004]
Utility Stylesheets By Bob DuCharme
In Bob DuCharme's latest Transforming XML column he shares several small stylesheets that follow a common design pattern. [Apr. 7, 2004]
Tunneling Variables By Bob DuCharme
In Bob DuCharme's latest Transforming XML column he explains the use and virtues of XSLT 2.0's tunneled variables. [Mar. 24, 2004]
Opening Open Formats with XSLT By Bob DuCharme
In Bob DuCharme's latest Transforming XML column he finds that four-year old XSLT 1.0 is solving more and more problems as more data becomes available in XML. [Feb. 4, 2004]
The Ox Documentation Tool By Michael Fitzgerald
Ox is a simple documentation tool for people who regularly work at the shell or command-prompt level: a Java program that accepts a keyword or term as input and then returns documentation for that term. [Jan. 28, 2004]
A Confusion of Styles By John E. Simpson
In John E. Simpson's latest XML Q&A column he discusses various styling options and alternatives for a nonstandard HTML variant. [Jan. 28, 2004]
Trees, Temporarily By Bob DuCharme
In his latest Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme explains XSLT 2.0's Temporary Trees, and then he demonstrates how to use them. [Dec. 3, 2003]
