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<h1>The Book List Stylesheet</h1>
<p>This is a very simple sample stylesheet to illustrate several Saxon extensions.
It uses the XML file <b>books.xml</b> (derived from a file issued originally by Microsoft).
You will find this in the samples\data directory. The DTD is in <b>books.dtd</b></p>
<p> There is a style sheet <b>books.xsl</b> that can be used to display the data: run this as
follows, with the samples directory as the current directory:</p>
<p><i>On the Java platform:</i></p>
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java net.sf.saxon.Transform data\books.xml styles\books.xsl ><i>output.html</i>
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<p><i>On the .NET platform:</i></p>
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Transform data\books.xml styles\books.xsl ><i>output.html</i>
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<p>This produces an HTML page showing the data. (The output isn't very pretty, if you have
time to write an improved version, please send it in).</p>
<p>The stylesheet takes a parameter named "top-author". This is the name of the "author of the week",
and the default value is "Bonner". To run the stylesheet with a different top author, try adding to the
end of the command line:</p>
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..... top-author=Danzig ><i>output.html</i>
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<p>It is possible (under those operating systems I know of) to write the author's name in quotes if
it contains spaces, e.g. top-author="A. A. Milne".</p>
<p>There is another style sheet, books-csv.xsl, which
converts the data into a comma-separated-values file.</p>
<p>A query that runs with this data is also supplied. The command to use on the Java platform is:</p>
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java net.sf.saxon.Query -s:data\books.xml query\books.xq ><i>output.html</i>
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<p>The equivalent on .NET is:</p>
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Query -s:data\books.xml query\books.xq ><i>output.html</i>
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