Learning XPath with XSLT using ASP.NET 2.0
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This is the first article in a series focusing on XPath with XSLT using ASP.NET 2.0. In this article, I will be focusing on setting up your own XSD, XML and XSL to test XPath expressions along with a few of the basic XPath expressions, together with XSLT constructs.
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downloadable zip file is available for this article.
Even though this series is based on ASP.NET 2.0, I use it only as a transformation engine. The entire focus will be on working with XPath and XSLT. You can use any transformation engine according to your requirements (such as Java or others).
You can consider this series as a complement to my existing series, which focused on developing XSLT-based applications using ASP.NET 2.0. If you are new to a few of the concepts of XSLT, I strongly suggest you go through my first series, which deals completely with XSLT. I will be using few of the XSLT constructs in this series wherever appropriate.
The entire solution (source code) for this article is available as a free download (in the form of a zip). All the applications in this series have been developed using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition together with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition as the database. You can even directly copy and paste the code given in this article and save with XML or XSL extension and work with your own XSL parsers/engines.
I didn’t really test any of the code in any of the other tools/IDEs/servers/editions/versions. If you have any problems, please feel free to post in the discussion area.
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