Transforming XML Data with XSLT
The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) APIs can be used for many purposes. For example, with a sufficiently intelligent stylesheet, you could generate PDF or PostScript output from the XML data. But generally, XSLT is used to generate formatted HTML output, or to create an alternative XML representation of the data.
In this section, you'll use an XSLT transform to translate XML input data to HTML output.
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The XSLT specification is large and complex, so this tutorial can only scratch the surface. It will give you enough background to get started so that you can undertake simple XSLT processing tasks. It should also give you a head start when you investigate XSLT further. For a more thorough ...
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