Working with Altova Stylevision

The eXtensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations is a core XML technology for both presentation and middleware layers of enterprise applications. This training course teaches students to write their own XSLT files to transform XML into XSL-FO for RTF PDF, or HTML. The course uses the Stylevision product from Altova as the tool of choice, but also goes beyond the tool so that students can understand the documents that have been created.

Objectives

• Understand the XSLT mechanism
• Write XSLT Templates using Stylevision
• Understand the role of the pre-defined templates in XSLT
• Write XPath expressions for use in XSLT documents created in Stylevision
• Use XPath functions in Stylevision
• Use the XSLT flow control elements
• Understand the XSL-FO document structure generated by Stylevision
• Configure document settings for PDF generation
• Work with tables and pagination using Stylevision

Prerequisites

• Delegates must be familiar with XML. XML experience can come from the XML Overview training course. It is also helpful if delegates have programming experience in some programming or scripting language.

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