Figure 1 Typical XML Document
<!DOCTYPE people [
<!ELEMENT people (person*)>
<!ELEMENT person (name, spouse)>
<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT spouse EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST person id ID #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST spouse href IDREF #IMPLIED>
]>
<people>
<person id='ss-555-12-4343'>
<name>Aaron</name>
<spouse href='ss-555-88-7474'/>
</person>
<person id='ss-555-88-7474'>
<name>Monica</name>
<spouse href='ss-555-12-4343'/>
</person>
</people>
Figure 2 XML Schema
<soap:Envelope xmlns:x='urn:some:ns'
xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'
soap:encodingStyle=
'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding'
>
<soap:Body>
<x:Compare>
<p1 href='#aaron'/>
<p2 href="#aaron'/>
</x:Compare>
<x:Person id='aaron'>
<name>Aaron Skonnard</name>
</x:Person>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Figure 3 invoice.xsd
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'
xmlns:tns='urn:www-develop-com:invoices'
targetNamespace='urn:www-develop-com:invoices'
xmlns='urn:www-develop-com:invoices'
>
<xsd:complexType name='LineItem'>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name='Sku' type='skuType'/>
<xsd:element name='Description' type='xsd:string'/>
<xsd:element name='Price' type='xsd:double'/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name='LineItems'>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name='LineItem' type='tns:LineItem' minOccurs='1'
maxOccurs='unbounded' />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name='Invoice'>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name='InvoiceID' type='xsd:string'/>
<xsd:element name='CustomerName' type='xsd:string'/>
<xsd:element name='LineItems' type='tns:LineItems'/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:element name='Invoice' type='Invoice'/>
<xsd:simpleType name='skuType'>
<xsd:restriction base='xsd:integer' >
<xsd:minInclusive value='100' />
<xsd:maxInclusive value='999' />
</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:simpleType>
</xsd:schema>
Figure 4 Namespace Node Properties
Property Name
| Description
| local-name
| Namespace prefix
| namespace-uri
| "" (empty string)
| string-value (as if by calling the string function)
| Namespace URI
| parent::node
| The element node to which the namespace node belongs
| Figure 6 XPath Date/Time Extension Functions
Function Name
| Description
| ms:utc
| Converts XSD date/time representations to the UTC representation: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:NN:SS.III (where III represents milliseconds)
| ms:format-date
| Converts XSD date representations to the specified format, acceptable for output
| ms:format-time
| Converts XSD time representations to the specified format, acceptable for output
| Figure 7 XInclude
Dim f As New VBSAXXIncludeFilter
Dim filter As IVBSAXXMLFilter
Dim r As New SAXXMLReader30
Dim reader As IVBSAXXMLReader
Dim ser As New Serializer
r.putFeature _
"http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", False
Set filter = f
Set filter.Parent = r
Set reader = filter
Set reader.contentHandler = ser
reader.parseURL "person.xml"
Figure 8 Just XML Inclusion
<xsl:transform
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xinc="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="1.0"
>
<xsl:template match="xinc:include">
<xsl:apply-templates select="document(@href)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
Figure 9 menu.xml
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="menu.xsl"?>
<menusystem>
<menu>
<item label="Home" href="home.asp" />
<item label="Login" href="login.asp" />
<item label="About Us">
<item label="Who we are" href="us.asp" />
<item label="Where we are" href="where.asp" />
<item label="Contact Information" href="contact.asp" />
</item>
<item label="Products">
<item label="Product1" href="product1.asp" />
<item label="Product2" href="product2.asp" />
<item label="Product3" href="product3.asp" />
<item label="Product4" href="product4.asp" />
</item>
<item label="Specials" href="specials.asp" />
</menu>
</menusystem>
Figure 10 menu.xsl Transform
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl" version='1.0'>
<xsl:script>
var currID;
function getID(node) {
currID = "ID" + uniqueID(node);
return currID;
}
</xsl:script>
<xsl:template match="/menusystem/menu/item">
<div>
<li>
<xsl:attribute name="onmouseout">normal(this)
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=".[not(item)]">
<xsl:attribute name="onclick">
menuClick(<xsl:eval>getID(this)</xsl:eval>,
'<xsl:value-of select="@href" />
event.cancelBubble=true;</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="class">mainitemleaf
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="onmouseover">hiliteLeaf(this)
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:attribute name="onclick">menuClick
(<xsl:eval>getID(this)</xsl:eval>, '
event.cancelBubble=true;</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="class">mainitemplus
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="onmouseover">
hiliteMenu(this)</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:value-of select="@label" />
</li>
</div>
<div style='display:none'>
<xsl:attribute name="ID">
<xsl:eval>currID</xsl:eval>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="item" />
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/menusystem/menu/item/item">
<div>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=".[not(item)]">
<xsl:attribute name="onclick">menuClick
(<xsl:eval>getID(this)</xsl:eval>,
'<xsl:value-of select="@href" />
event.cancelBubble=true;</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="onmouseover">hiliteLeaf(this)
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:attribute name="onclick">menuClick
(<xsl:eval>getID(this)</xsl:eval>, '
event.cancelBubble=true;</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="onmouseover">hiliteMenu(this)
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:attribute name="class">subitem1</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="onmouseout">normal(this)</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="@label" />
</div>
<div style='display:none'>
<xsl:attribute name="ID">
<xsl:eval>currID</xsl:eval>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="item" />
</div>
</xsl:template>
<!-- root template, main entry point -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>XML/XSL Sample Menu</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="global.css"/>
<script SRC="global.js"></script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="black" leftmargin="5" topmargin="5">
<div>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/menusystem/menu/item"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Figure 13 multipleout.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:user="http://mycompany.com/mynamespace"
version="1.0">
<msxsl:script language="JScript" implements-prefix="user">
function outputDocument(fileName, nodeList) {
var doc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument");
doc.loadXML(nodeList.nextNode().xml);
doc.save(fileName);
return "";
}
</msxsl:script>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="book/chapter">
<xsl:variable name="fileName" select="concat('chapter', position(),
'.xml')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="user:outputDocument($fileName, .)"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Figure 14 Mapping of  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ENTITY sp " ">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- root template -->
<html>
<!-- there will be 3 spaces before Hello -->
<body>&sp; &sp;Hello World</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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