Utilizes real-world examples to demonstrate how XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) stylesheets can be used with XML data and documents to create such applications as sound files, HTML, WML, graphics (SVG), and Braille, and discusses the relationship of XSLT and XPath to other web standards. Original. (Intermediate/Advanced)
Doug Tidwell is a senior programmer at IBM. He has more than a sixth of a century of programming experience, and has been working with markup languages for more than a decade. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has taught XML classes around the world. His job as a Cyber Evangelist is to look busy and to help people use new technologies to solve problems. Using a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers, he holds a master's degree in computer science from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Georgia. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, cooking teacher Sheri Castle (see her web site at http://www.sheri-inc.com) and their daughter Lily.