Using XSLT with Text Documents

A beginner's tutorial

by
Lance Jenott
Center for Advanced Research Techonology in the Arts and Humanities (CARTAH)
University of Washington
2005

Table of Contents

• 1 - Text Documents and XML tags
• 2 - How to display the entire document using a XSLT script
• 3 - Displaying Text
  • 3.1 - How to display one line of text using <xsl:value-of>
  • 3.2 - How to display multiple lines of text using <xsl:for-each>
• 4 - Attributes
• 5 - Decision making
  • 5.1 - Decision making with <xsl:if>
  • 5.2 - Decision making with <xsl:choose>, <xsl:when> and <xsl:otherwise>
• 6 - Sorting text with <xsl:sort>

XSLT Functions:

• 7 - The count() function
• 8 - The contains() function
• 9 - The starts-with() function
• 10 - The substring() function
• 11 - The substring-before() function
• 12 - The substring-after() function
• 13 - The string-length() function
• 14 - The translate() function
• 15 - The concat() function
• 16 - The string() function

Other:

• 17 - String Replacement
• 18 - Interactive Client-side transformations using Javascript
• 19 - Interactive Server-side transformations using PHP5