XML by Example

NOTE

The latest draft of XSLT available at the time of this writing has introduced a new ele-

ment,

xsl:output, that plays a role similar to the html command-line parameter of

LotusXSL.

For example, the following element specifies that the transformation is from

XML to

HTML:

<xsl:output method=”html”/>

The following sections examine the style sheet in more detail.

Stylesheet Element

The style sheet is a well-formed XML document (XSL designers thought

that XML was the best syntax for a style sheet). It describes the tree of the

source document, the tree of the resulting document, and how to transform

one into the other. The top-level element is style sheet ...