Working with XML Style Sheets (XSL or XSLT)

Style sheets, often referred to as XSL or XSLT documents, determine how data in an XML document is presented. XSLT stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation. XSLT files are combined with XML files by an XSLT processor, producing an output file. The output file can be in HTML, plain text, or a variety of other formats.

When you opt to produce an XML style sheet, Access generates the XSL file and an HTML document. The HTML document looks like this:

 <HTML xmlns:signature="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access"> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/> </HEAD> <SCRIPT event=onload for=window> objData = new ActiveXObject("MSXML.DOMDocument"); objData.async ...

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