XSLT
The XML Style Sheet Language (XSL) Transformation (XSLT) API is used for transforming an XML document into any other form; the most common use of XSLT for Web development is for transforming XML documents into HTML for presentation in a Web browser.
The JAXP defines an XSLT Transformer that reads an XML document and applies to it the rules specified in a style sheet to produce a resultant document. Figure 12.3 shows this graphically.
Figure 12.3. The XSLT process.
The JAXP provides XSLT support through the javax.xml.transform package. The javax.xml.Transformer class performs the actual transformation and, in a similar fashion to the way a ...
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