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by Jeni Tennison (Author)
This book introduces Web developers and people with limited programming experience to the exciting world of "Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations" (XSLT). XSLT is vital to realizing the promise of XML. If you, for example, have an XML document and you want to use the same document to appear both on the Web and in a printed document, you would need to use XSLT to transform the raw XML into the two forms.
Author Biography
Jeni Tennison is an independent consultant specializing in XSLT and XML Schema development. She trained as a knowledge engineer, gaining a Ph.D. in collaborative ontology development, and has since become a consultant working in a variety of areas including publishing, water monitoring, and financial services. She is the author of "XPath On The Edge" and the forthcoming "Beginning XSLT 2.0: From Novice to Professional" (Apress) and one of the founders of the EXSLT initiative to standardize extensions to XSLT and XPath. She is an invited expert on the W3C XSL Working Group, and was voted ActiveState Activator's Choice XSLT Programmer of the Year in 2002. Tennison spends much of her spare time answering people's queries on the XSL-List and xmlschema-dev mailing lists.
