A–C
D–H
I–Z
Developer services
Project centers
Community resources
- Adobe Cookbooks (share code)
- CSS Advisor (browser bug fixes)
- Exchanges (share components)
- Adobe Labs
- Adobe Open Source
- Forums
- RSS feeds
- Bug base
- User groups
- Adobe Community Experts (ACE)
- Developer events
Integration
Product documentation
Downloads
Samples
Training and books
- Online training
- Classroom training
- Certification
- Adobe Developer Library
- Adobe Press
- Safari Books Online
Newsletters
Blogs
Archives
ADC program
Additional resources
Greg Rewis
Table of Contents
Using XSL Filtering in Dreamweaver 8
By now, you've no doubt heard about the support for XML and XSL in Dreamweaver 8, which allows any web designer or developer to include XML-based data in an HTML web page.
Personally, I was very excited by this new feature and it is always a highlight of my Studio 8 presentations. However, one of the questions that audiences typically ask me after I show them this feature is, "How do I limit the data I want to display?" The answer, of course, is to use the power of XSL filtering.
In the following article, I will shed some light on two of the most useful XSL elements, which you can use to filter through the data you receive from an XML-based data feed to display only a subset of that data.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software:
Dreamweaver 8
About the author
Greg Rewis is group manager, Creative Solutions Evangelism at Adobe Systems. With over 20 years of computer industry experience, Greg spends in excess of 200 days of the year on the road, talking with customers, giving product demonstrations at trade shows and seminars, speaking at industry conferences, and leading specialized, advanced training sessions featuring the Adobe Web Tools product line. Greg has been passionate about the web since putting his first "home page" online in 1994. His career has taken him around the world, from the early days of desktop publishing, to a start-up in Hamburg, Germany, the glory days of the web at Macromedia and finally his current role at Adobe. The original GoLive Cyberstudio Product Manager and former Dreamweaver Technical Product Manager, Greg is the co-author of Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 and the newly released Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4 published by New Riders.
