Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Stylesheet Processing

There is a lot that can be accomplished with XML and XSL, from converting between XML, to XML and outputting HTML. Now, let's take a look at the mechanism that is employed when processing stylesheets.

First, to process a stylesheet, you will need a piece of software capable of reading both the XML file and the stylesheet and then processing the templates contained in the stylesheet. This piece of software is commonly referred to as an XSL processor, or engine. There are a number of XSL processors available, but for the examples used in this and the following chapter, we have used Saxon. For the examples using XSL-FO in Chapter 10, “The Nuts and Bolts of XSL: Formatting Objects,” we have used FOP. Both of these products are ...