Prepared by:

Osama Mourad

XSLT in SharePoint

March 27, 2010

About me

Osama Mourad• Currently a Development Manager at LINKdotNET Saudi Arabia• Managed a group of projects in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Emirates • MCP ASP.NET and MCTS MOSS 2007 Configuration

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Agenda

• What is XSLT?• How to transform the XML?• Dependent/Independent Schemas• XSLT in SharePoint• XSLT ListView webpart• Questions

What is XSL?

• Is a StyleSheet language for XML• XSL consists of three parts:

1. XSLT - a language for transforming XML documents2. XPath - a language for navigating in XML documents3. XSL-FO - a language for formatting XML documents

CSS and XSL

• CSS is for HTML• XSL is for XML• In HTML, <TABLE> is for table as rows and

columns, but in XML <TABLE> can be a lot of things in the same document, it can be a piece of furniture

What is XSLT?

• XSLT stands for XSL Transformations• XSLT transforms an XML document into

another XML document• XSLT uses XPath to navigate in XML documents

Demo

CSS and XSLT

How to transform the XML?

• Client side (Browser)• Client side (JavaScript)• Server side (C#)• XSL Extentions

Demo

Transforming XML

Dependent/Independent Schemas

• Dependent Schema• Independent Schema

XSLT In SharePoint

• Content Query webpart• Table of Contents webpart• Summary Links webpart• List View webpart• Data Form webpart

XSLT ListView webpart

Demo

XSLT ListView webpart

Refrences

• http://www.w3.org/TR/XSLT• http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/ • http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/• http://

blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2010/02/25/sharepoint-2010-list-view-blog-series-part-3-list-view-architecture.aspx

Questions

Thank You!

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