Additional AxKit Tools

AxKit includes a large number of tools. Unfortunately, I can’t discuss all the features in detail (that would require another book); however, in the next section, I discuss the most widely used options.

XPathScript

XPathScript is a stylesheet language for transformations that can act as a replacement for XSLT that was written by Matt Sergeant. The advantage of XPathScript over XSLT is that it enables you to embed Perl and XPath expressions within XML documents. This combines the power of XSLT with a programming language for dynamic content document creation comparable to Active Server Pages (ASP), JavaServer Pages (JSP), and PHP.

XPathScript is used the same way you use an XSLT stylesheet. The XPathScript stylesheet ...

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