October 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1072 pages
24h 21m
English
In the same way that cascading style sheets are commonly used to transform HTML documents, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) transforms XML documents. It can transform XML documents from one document format to another, into other XML dialects, or into completely different file formats such as PostScript, RTF, and TeX.
The best part about XSLT is that it's XML. An XSLT document is a regular XML document. “How can that be?” you may ask. “Wouldn't you have issues with circular references?” No—XSLT is just another XML dialect. Modern XML parsers are intelligent enough to know how to use the instructions encoded in an XSLT document (which are just ordinary XML tags and attributes and the ...
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