Doug Tidwell

IBM

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on technical topics around the world. He works in IBM’s Software Strategy group, evangelizing emerging XML standards such as XForms, SCA and SDO.

He is the author of O’Reilly’s XSLT, and has written many articles on IBM’s developerWorks site and elsewhere on the Web.

He lives with his wife and daughter (and Domino, the Hound of Renown) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Sessions

9:00 Tuesday, 6 May 2008

XSLT 2.0: More Power, Less Hassle

Tutorial Goldsmiths 3

Doug Tidwell (IBM)

More than six years in the making, XSLT 2.0 became a W3C recommendation in February 2007. In this session, we'll cover the changes of the language, including the simpler syntax for grouping and the powerful schema and data validation features. Compared to Version 1.0, XSLT 2.0 makes the hard things easy and the difficult things possible. XSLT 2.0 is a powerful addition to anyone's toolbox. Read more.