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XML and Perl
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XML and Perl

by Mark Riehl, Ilya Sterin
October 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 40m
English
Sams
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This chapter discusses XML transformation and filtering. XML transformation is the process of converting an XML document into one or more output documents. These output documents can be any one of a number of different formats. Some of the possible resulting document formats include the following: XML, XHTML, HTML, WML, RTF, and CSV.

Two types of XSL-based transformations exist—a formatting language and a transformation language. The formatting language, XML Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) is used to create text layouts for documents. As of this writing, no major browsers support XSL-FO, so most XSL-FO is converted into another format (for example, PDF or TEX) for viewing.

In this chapter, we’re going to focus on the XSL Transformation ...

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