Special Edition Using XSLT

Benefits of XSL

So, the question is, what benefits do you gain by using XSL? Without question, the key benefit of XML is that it allows you to separate your data from presentation and business logic. Because your data doesn’t contain the baggage of device-specific presentation code or internal logic, you can repurpose it in many different ways. For example, a publishing house could take a manuscript originally written for a book and quickly transform it into HTML and post it as a series of articles on a Web site. In addition, the publisher could syndicate portions of the manuscript, even down to a passage, to online magazines. The company could also quickly distribute books on CD-ROM by placing a reader program on disk that reads and displays ...