XSL Transformations

As you have seen, the XML format is a very useful interchange format for structured data. However, most XML data are not intended for viewing by end users. In this section, we show you how to transform XML data into presentation formats such as HTML or plain text.

NOTE

In this section, you see how to transform XML data into HTML for presentation in a browser. An alternative approach is to display XML files directly in a browser. For example, Internet Explorer shows XML documents as trees. More important, the latest versions of Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Opera let you specify a cascading style sheet (CSS) with an XML document. ...

Get Core Java™ 2 Volume II - Advanced Features, Seventh Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.