Special Edition Using Java™ Server Pages and Servlets

Chapter 25. Adding XSL Stylesheets to Enhance an XML Application

In this chapter

• What Is XSL?

• A Simple XSL Stylesheet

• Navigating an XML Document with XPath

• Applying XSL Templates on the Browser

• Applying XSL Templates from a Servlet

• JSP or Stylesheets?

What Is XSL?

Although XML has been gathering heaps of praise as the next "big thing," the Extensible Style Language (XSL) has been lurking quietly, waiting to be noticed. XSL is a language for translating XML from one format into another. For example, you might have a set of XML tags that describe a person (<firstName>, <lastName>, and so on) and you want to represent those tags with HTML. You can create a stylesheet to tell the XSL processor how to translate the person XML into HTML.

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