0.3. Organization
This book consists of 10 chapters and 3 appendixes, as follows:
- Chapter 1, "Introduction "
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Provides a broad overview of the technologies covered in this book
and explains how XML, XSLT, Java, and other APIs are related. Also
reviews basic XML concepts for readers who are familiar with Java but
do not have a lot of XML experience.
- Chapter 2, "XSLT Part 1 -- The Basics"
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Introduces XSLT syntax through a series of small examples and
descriptions. Describes how to produce HTML and XHTML output and
explains how XSLT works as a language. XPath syntax is also
introduced in this chapter.
- Chapter 3, "XSLT Part 2 -- Beyond the Basics"
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Continues with material presented in the previous chapter, covering
more sophisticated XSLT language features such as conditional logic,
parameters and variables, text and number formatting, and producing
XML output. This chapter concludes with a more sophisticated example
that produces summary reports for Ant build files.
- Chapter 4, "Java-Based Web Technologies"
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Offers comparisons between popular web development technologies,
comparing each with the Java and XSLT approach. The
model-view-controller architecture is discussed in detail, and the
relationship between XSLT web applications and EJB is touched upon.
- Chapter 5, "XSLT Processing with Java"
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Shows how to use XSLT processors with Java applications and servlets.
Older Xalan and SAXON APIs are mentioned, but the primary focus is on
Sun's JAXP. Key examples show how to use XSLT and SAX to
transform non-XML files and data sources, how to improve performance
through caching techniques, and how to interoperate with DOM and
JDOM.
- Chapter 6, "Servlet Basics and XSLT"
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Provides a detailed review of Java servlet programming techniques.
Shows how to create web applications and WAR files, how to deploy XML
and XSLT files within these web applications, and how to perform XSLT
transformations from servlets.
- Chapter 7, "Discussion Forum"
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Implements a complete web application from start to finish. In this
chapter, a web-based discussion forum is designed and implemented
using Java, XML, and XSLT techniques. The relationship between CSS
and XSLT is presented, and XHTML Strict is used for all web pages.
- Chapter 8, "Additional Techniques"
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Covers important Java and XSLT programming techniques that build upon
concepts presented in earlier chapters, concluding with a detailed
discussion of XSLT internationalization. Other topics include XSLT
page layout templates, servlet session tracking without cookies,
browser identification, and servlet filters.
- Chapter 9, "Development Environment, Testing, and Performance"
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Offers practical advice for making a wide range of XML parsers, XSLT
processors, and various other Java tools work together. Shows how to
resolve conflicts with incompatible XML JAR files, how to write
simple unit tests with JUnit, and how to write custom JAXP error
handlers. Also discusses performance techniques and the relationship
between XSLT and EJB.
- Chapter 10, "Wireless Applications"
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Describes the world of wireless technologies, with emphasis on
Wireless Markup Language (WML). Shows how to detect wireless devices
from a servlet, how to write XSLT stylesheets for these devices, and
how to test using a variety of cell phone simulators. An online movie
theater application is developed to reinforce the concepts.
- Appendix A, "Discussion Forum Code"
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Contains all of the remaining code from the discussion forum example
presented in Chapter 7, "Discussion Forum".
- Appendix B, "JAXP API Reference"
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Lists and briefly describes each of the classes in Version 1.1 of the
JAXP API.
- Appendix C, "XSLT Quick Reference"
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Contains a quick reference for the XSLT language. Lists all XSLT
elements along with required and optional attributes and allowable
content within each element. Also cross references each element with
the W3C XSLT specification.
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