Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours

Hour 13. Using Multiple XSL Templates to Read Data from Multiple XML Files

In the previous hour, you learned the basic principles of using XSL templates to extract the data from an XML file. The templates provide a great deal of functionality that supports data selection via queries. This functionality is similar to that found in database packages. Therefore, from this point on, the XML data file will be considered the database file. Although sometimes you'll work with a single database, many times you'll work with more than one at a time. Therefore, this hour will show you how to extract the data from more than one database at a time. The other main topic of this hour is the extraction of data by creating one XSL loop nested inside another. ...