the skew.org XML & XSLT resources

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The skew.org XML Tutorial: A reintroduction to XML with emphasis on encoding.

Last major revision 2005; last minor revision 05 Aug 20147
XML vs HTTP: Why unencapsulated XML over HTTP is almost never completely safe.

Last major revision 9 Feb 2003; last minor revision 28 Jun 2008.
No longer linked because it was made obsolete by modern frameworks & libraries.
Non-ASCII Characters in URIs: Issues affecting percent-encoding non-ASCII data.

Last major revision 27 Apr 2001; last minor revision 20 May 2003.
No longer linked since 27 Feb 2005; its principal content was merged into these Wikipedia articles: Uniform Resource Identifier and percent-encoding.

XSLT code

ASCII XML Tree Viewer: A stylesheet for XPath/XSLT data model visualization (plain text).

Last revision 13 Feb 2001
Pretty XML Tree Viewer: Another stylesheet for XPath/XSLT data model visualization (HTML+CSS).

Last revision 15 Oct 2001
condense.xsl: A stylesheet to strip extraneous whitespace & comments.

Last revision 5 Jan 2000
replace.xsl: An XSLT template to perform substring replacements.

Last revision 10 Nov 2000
linefeed_to_br_demo.xsl: Similar to replace.xsl; replaces linefeed character with <br>.

Last revision 2 Apr 2001
url-encode.xsl: An XSLT template to percent-encode an ASCII or ISO-8859-1 string.

Encoder last revision 20 Apr 2002; decoder last revision 17 Mar 2003
trim.xsl: A stylesheet that demonstrates trimming leading and trailing whitespace.

Last revision 3 Mar 2004
genid.xsl: A stylesheet to test an XSLT processor's conformance regarding document identity.

Last revision 29 Dec 2002
reindent.xsl: A stylesheet to re-indent (pretty-print) poorly indented XML.

Last revision 25 Oct 2006

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