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Jeff FriesenJava XML and JSONhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4330-5_6

6. Transforming XML Documents with XSLT

Jeff Friesen1 
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Dauphin, MB, Canada
 

Along with SAX, DOM, StAX, and XPath, Java includes the XSLT API, for transforming XML documents. Chapter 6 introduces you to XSLT.

What Is XSLT?

Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) is a family of languages for transforming and formatting XML documents. XSL Transformation (XSLT) is the XSL language for transforming XML documents to other formats, such as HTML (for presenting an XML document’s content via a web browser).

XSLT accomplishes its work by using XSLT processors and stylesheets. An XSLT processor is a software component that applies an XSLT stylesheet (an XML-based template ...

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