XSL Resources

Articles: XSLT & XPath

• Declaring Keys and Performing Lookups
• XML.com, Feb. 2002
• Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status
• Style-free XSLT Stylesheets
• XML.com, Jul. 2000
• Top Ten Tips to Using XPath and XPointer
• XML.com, Aug. 2002
• What’s new in XPath 2.0
• What’s new in XSLT 2.0

Articles: XSL-FO

• Printing from XML: An Introduction to XSL-FO
• Using XSL Formatting Objects, Part 1
• Using XSL Formatting Objects, Part 2
• What is XSL-FO?
• XML.com, Mar. 2002
• XML Technologies: A Success Story

Book Excerpts & Tutorials

• XSL FO Reference
• XSL Formatting Objects
• Chapter 18, The XML Bible, 2nd Ed.
• XSL Transformations
• Chapter 17, The XML Bible, 2nd Ed.
• XSLT and XPath
• IBM Tutorial

Character Encoding

• Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals
• W3C Recommendation, February 15, 2005
• DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
• Chapter 19: Languages, characters and encoding
• Special Characters
• UTF-8, Unicode, et al.
• Unicode Glossary
• XML 1.0: Physical Structures
• Entities section

Developer Sites

• Dave Pawson: XSL FAQ
• Dave Pawson: XSLT version 2
• Jeni’s XSLT Pages
• W3C’s XSL Home Page
• XSL-List

Products & Companies

• Antenna House
• RenderX
• XMLmind
• XSL-FO to RTF converter
• Xselerator XSLT Editor
• From TopXML

Reference Books

• XSL-FO, by Dave Pawson

XSL Processors

• Apache FOP
• XSL-FO processor
• Apache Xalan Java
• XSLT processor
• Saxon XSLT processor
• XSLT-process
• Emacs minor mode for XSLT debugging

XSL Specifications

• XSL 1.1 (2006)
• XSL 2.0 (2012)
• Working Draft
• XSLT 1.0 (1999)
• XSLT 2.0 (2007)
• XSLT 3.0 (2017)
• Proposed Recommendation