Hour 17. Using XSL Comparison and Collection Operators and XSL Methods to Perform Database Queries

Many times you're concerned about the relative size of two data items. Most data types support some form of relative size comparison, and XSL supports a set of operators for doing this.

In this hour, you'll learn the following:

  • The set of equality operators and how they're used in queries

  • The set of size comparison operators and how they're used in queries

  • How to use the any and all operators and what they return

  • The syntax to access the contents of a node using the value() method

  • How to use the selectSingleNode() method to extract the data from one node of interest

  • How to use the end() method to extract the data from the last node of the current list ...

Get Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial