As predicted by most industry pundits, XML is the defacto standard for representing data as it flows between two systems. But applications need standard ways to manipulate the data contained in an XML ...

Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformations (XSLT) is a computing language specialized for mapping XML documents into other XML documents. Explanation of XSLT is no small ambition. The problem ...

I'm working with XSLT for the first time, and while most of the (simple) things I've needed to do have been easy to learn, I'm having some trouble with this one part. I need to print a string as a ...

I was once asked to help in a project that required a simple data transformer for converting raw bill data into different bill layouts. After receiving a brief introduction to the problem, I suggested ...

Orbeon's engineers constantly work with bleeding-edge XML and J2EE technologies and frequently publish papers and articles. They are the developers of Model 2X and XPL. These technologies are ...

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In some commercial software projects, you cannot afford to cast in stone the structure of business objects. For example, different companies may have different and even mutually exclusive requirements ...

I've got a rather messy XML file and a complex XSLT. The XML file describes several folders and the documents they contain. Unfortunately, I cannot include the document's language directly in the XML, ...