JSP™ and XML Integrating XML and Web Services in Your JSP™ Application

XSL

XSL stands for Extensible Stylesheet Language. This language is what we'll use to transform an XML source into what we want. With the data we could output any format: HTML, more XML, or anything else. It is important to note that XSL is based on XML. This means that XSL must follow the same well-formed rules as XML: There are quotation marks around all attribute values, all tags are case sensitive and must be properly nested, and data must not contain the markup characters listed in Table 2.1. In the following examples, we are going to format some XML as HTML using XSL Transformations (XSLT).

Stylesheet Linking

First, we are going to add another processor instruction to the top of the XML file that we created. Add the following line after ...