Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) and XSL Transformations (XSLT)
In the preceding section, we showed how data such as a customer can be defined using XML, and we presented the rules that govern how XML is built. The next step is to transform the XML data into a different format—either another XML data format or something presentable such as XHTML by adding layout information.
When you send your customer data to a company that already uses an XML-based application, wouldn’t it be great if it were possible to easily transform your <customer> data into their <customer> format?
For this purpose, a set of standards was defined by the W3C accompanying XML. The Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), which has been a W3C recommendation since October ...
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