Chapter 1
Introducing the X-Team
In This Chapter
Finding out about XML, XSL, XSLT, and XPath
Knowing the difference between XSL and XSLT
Looking at the X-Team from an HTML perspective
A s a sports fan, I enjoy watching all kinds of team sports, whether football, basketball, baseball, or an Olympic team competition. I’ve noticed that regardless of the sport, great teams have two things in common. First, they have very talented individuals on them. Second, they function well as a team; I find hardly anything more thrilling in sports than seeing a squad of talented athletes working together cohesively. (Of course, it goes without saying that the most exciting part of sports is the “I’m going to Disneyworld” commercials!)
Although this book focuses on eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations, or XSLT, you’ll quickly discover that XSLT is an important component of a closely related set of technologies that I affectionately call the X-Team. This “Dream X-Team” consists of: XML, XSL, XSLT, and XPath. (For the techies out there, that’s shorthand for eXtensible Markup Language, eXtensible Stylesheet Language, XSL Transformations, and XML Path Language.) Each of these technologies ...
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