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XSLT Questions and Answers - FAQ.

These are the Frequently Asked Questions.

• Things XSLT can't do --Things XSLT cant do.
• Alternate nodes--Alternate nodes
• Logical AND and OR--And and Or
• Applications--Applications
• xsl:apply-imports--Apply imports
• Attributes--XML Attributes
• Attribute Value Templates--Attribute Value Templates
• Axes--Axes
• Best Practice--Best Practice in XSLT
• Bibliography--Bibs and tei
• Built in Templates--Built in Templates
• Boolean--Boolean
• Breaking up Paragraphs (BR)--BR
• Call-template--Call-template
• CDATA Sections--CDATA
• Checkbox--Checkboxes
• RGB from hex colours--Colour convertor
• Comma Separated Data--Comma Separated Data
• Comments--Comments
• Compare--Compare
• Conformance testing--Conformance
• Context Changes--Context Changes
• Case Conversion--Upper and Lower case change
• Copying--Copying
• Counting--Counting
• Cross Reference--Cross Reference
• Current-node()--Current-node()
• Dates--Dates
• Debug--Debug
• Declarations--The XML declaration
• Default Rules--Defaults
• Depth of a Node--Depth of a Node
• Disable Output Escaping--Disable Output Escaping
• Doctype--Doctype
• Document--Document()
• Documentation --Self Documenting Code
• Document Order--Document Order
• DTD--DTD
• Duplicates--Duplicates
• Element Content--Element Content
• Element Output--Element Output
• Element Selection--Element Selection
• Elements--Elements
• Embedding XML--Embedded content processing
• Empty Element--Empty Element
• Encoding--Encoding
• Entities--Entities
• Errors--Errors
• Exclude Result Prefix--Namespaces in the output document
• Exslt--XSLT Extensions
• Filename--Filename
• Filters--Filters
• Flatten a structure --Flatten a tree structure
• Flat file transformation--Flat file
• Formatting--Formatting
• Fun--Fun
• fxsl--Functional programming in XSLT
• Functions--Functions
• General Examples--General Examples
• Generic Template--Generic template
• Generate-id--Generate-id
• Graphs, directed ...--graph tools
• Grouping--Grouping
• HTML--HTML (including HTML in XML and vice versa)
• ID and IDREF--ID and IDREF
• ID Attributes--ID Attributes
• Identity--Identity Transform
• Images--Images
• Import--Import
• Include--Include
• Index--Index
• Indexing in XSLT--Indexing
• Iteration--Iteration
• Keys--Keys
• Language--Language
• Links--Links
• Lookup--Lookup
• Looping--Looping
• Math--Math
• Merge two files--Merge
• Microsoft XSLT--Microsoft XSLT
• Mime types--What mime types?
• Mixed Content--mixed content
• Modes--Using Modes
• Modularisation--Modularisation
• Multiple Documents--Multiple Documents
• Multiple tags --Multiple tags
• Name--Name
• Named Templates--Named Templates
• Namespaces--Namespaces
• Navigation--Navigation
• Newline and whitespace--newline character
• Node-set--Node sets and rtf's
• Node tests--Node tests
• NOTATION--Notation and unparsed-entity-uri
• nbsp--Non Breaking Space
• No Output--No Output
• Normalise-space--Removing White space
• Numbering--Numbering
• Numeric Content--Numeric Content
• Output--Output
• Paging--Linked paged data
• Parameters--Parameters
• Padding Content--Padding
• Paths--Paths
• Path Trace--Path Trace
• PCDATA--Extracting PCDATA
• PlainText output--Plain Text
• Position--Position
• Predicates--Predicates
• Pretty Printing XML --Pretty Printing
• Processing Instruction--Processing Instruction
• Push vs Pull--Push vs Pull
• Recursion Examples--Recursion
• Repetition--Recursion
• Replace--Replace
• Root and Document --Root and Document
• XML Schema--Schema
• Selection--Selection
• Semantics--Semantics
• Siblings--Siblings
• Simplified Syntax--Simplified Syntax
• Sorting and Grouping--Sorting and Grouping
• Sorting--Sorting
• Special Characters--Special Characters
• Special Techniques --Muenchian/Kaysian/Allouch/Novatchev-Tennison Techniques
• Standalone Stylesheets--Standalone Stylesheets
• String Comparison--String Comparison
• General String Replace --General String Replace
• Strings--Strings
• Structure--Structure
• Syntax--Syntax
• Table of Contents--Table of Contents
• Tables--Tables
• Templates--Templates
• Text Nodes--Text nodes
• Translate--Translate
• Variables--Variables
• Unicode--Unicode
• UTF-8--UTF-8
• Which Processor--Detecting which processor version
• Wiki Markup--Conversion to wiki markup
• Whitespace--Whitespace
• WML and HDML--WML
• Understanding XPATH --Understanding XPATH
• Xinclude--xinclude and xslt processing
• xsl:apply-templates--xsl:apply-templates
• XSLT and XInclude--xinclude
• XML and XSL in one file--One file
• xml:space--xml:space
• xsl:copy--xsl:copy
• xsl:fallback--xsl:fallback
• xsl:for-each--xsl:for-each
• xsl:if --Test for certain conditions
• xml:lang --Processing xml:lang attributes
• xsl:output--xsl:output
• xsl:value-of--xsl:value-of
• xpointer--indirect linking