Ask xsl questions on xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

Look at http://zvon.vscht.cz/HTMLonly/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html for more than 200 stylesheets.

Download xt at http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt.html. With it you can transform xml to standalone html document and this document you can open in any browser.

IE5 implements an old draft of XSL-T (December 98 draft), and has no support for formatting objects. In IE5, you can either render XML with CSS, or transform XML with XSL-T and render it as HTML.

"Using XSL as a Validation Language" at http://www.ascc.net/xml/en/utf-8/XSLvalidation.html. The specifics in the
article are out-of-date with the current XSL draft, because the article is about 7 months old now.

For general discussion articles on the kinds of constraints, there are several articles at http://www.ascc.net/xml/en/utf-8/schemas.html

Check out Francis Nortons work on generating XSL validators from DCD instances using an XSL stylesheet.
http://www.redrice.com/ci/generatingXslValidators.html

XML editor available has some support for editing XSL stylesheets: http://www.cuesoft.com/products/exml.asp

HTML Kit (http://www.chami.com/html-kit/). While it was targeted on HTML, It has many handy and convenient features, it is easy to learn and it is free. And above all, it is evolving very very fast. It has some very useful features.

When programming XSL or Zvon home site, I am using some templates available for downloads at:
http://zvon.vscht.cz/ZvonHTML/Downloads/zvonBackupSite_en.html

Save the file backupHTMLKit.zip, unzip and copy the templates into data/default/ directory ot HTML Kit.

CSS tutorial at : http://zvon.vscht.cz/HTMLonly/CSSTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html The tutorial is generated from XML sources with perl scripts. Read chapter how to contribute for details.

You can also look at XSL tutorial at: http://zvon.vscht.cz/HTMLonly/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html. Which is also generated from XML sources. You can download both tutorials including source files and programs at: http://zvon.vscht.cz/ZvonHTML/Downloads/listOfPrograms_en.html

Each page at the site (http://zvon.vscht.cz:/ZvonHTML/Zvon/zvonHomepage_en.html) contains at the bottom links named DTD, XML and XSL. These links lead to the XML source of the page, DTD for the XML source and XSL which was used for the page generation. If you click on the DTD link on any page, you will get the particular DTD with a link to the template and the tempalte contains link to XSL used for the template transform. You can also download entire site including XSL scripts at http://zvon.vscht.cz:/ZvonHTML/Downloads/zvonBackupSite_en.html

Dr. Miloslav Nic e-mail: nicmila@vscht.cz Department of Organic Chemistry ICT Prague (VSCHT Praha)


latest working draft of XSLT http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/updates/14.html